Summer Fit books are a definite win in our family! My boys look forward to the variety of activities in the book and I appreciate the skills-based practice. The graphics are colorful and engaging without being too busy. The exercise log has been a motivator for everyone to get up and moving. I appreciate the core value pages where we get a chance to learn about a role model along with activity ideas to discuss the value and put it into action.
Summer Fit 3-4
Summer Fit Activities workbook for Third to Fourth Grade is engaging and effective, fully illustrated series of activity books designed to give kids fit brains and fit bodies. Summer Fit Activities workbooks were designed incorporating a Whole-Child approach to learning in three areas: Academics, Fitness (including health, exercise, and nutrition), and Character Education.
Summer Fit is available wherever books are sold, including the retailers below.
Help your child retain learning from one school year to the next with this award-winning full-color activity book series combining academic, fitness, and values fun connecting Third Grade to Fourth Grade!
Summer Fit Activities workbooks are an engaging and effective, fully illustrated series of activity books designed to give kids fit brains and fit bodies. Research shows that children can forget 2.5 months or up to 60% of their academic skills during the summer, while other studies have shown that daily fitness and play improve a child’s learning abilities and memory. Summer Fit Activities workbooks were designed with these findings in mind, incorporating a Whole-Child approach to learning in three areas: Academics, Fitness (including health, exercise, and nutrition), and Character Education.
As both a Tillywig Toys’ Brain Child Award winner and a Creative Child Awards Product of the Year, these fully illustrated and engaging activity books include grade appropriate exercises and skills lessons in reading, writing, math, language arts, science, and geography, In addition, these workbooks place a planet-friendly emphasis on the development of a child’s health and well-being, as well as core values like kindness, respect, and compassion.
Each Summer Fit Activities book contains:
- An introductory Parents section with tips on engagement and Incentive Calendars
- Daily grade appropriate academic activities based on national standards
- Daily fitness programs with exercise logs and free videos demonstrating proper techniques
- A Healthy Eating and Nutrition section
- Outdoor Summer Explorer and Summer Reading lists
- Reviews and Previews for each grade
- Level Weekly Core Values reinforce positive social skills and behavior
- Perforated heavy card stock flash cards
- Perforated certificates of completion
- Free online resources and corresponding exercise videos on the Summer Fit website
The Summer Fit Activities series was developed by a team of experts with decades of experience in education, nutrition, and fitness, and is the perfect connection between the end of one grade’s learning and the beginning of the next. For parents, caregivers, homeschoolers, and teachers, this curriculum will help kids start at the head of the class in the new school year. Summer Fit Activities—teacher created, parent approved.
Active Planet Kids
Active Planet Kids is the publisher of the award-winning Summer Fit Activities series, a set of grade-appropriate summer activity workbooks designed to help children retain learning over the summer through the combination of academic, fitness, and values lessons. Created by a team of experts in education, nutrition, and fitness, this “Whole-Child” Approach has helped hundreds of thousands of children reach their full potential in the school year ahead.
Founded in 2008 by George Starks, a highly respected educational publisher, the company is injecting new energy into these summer education resources, carrying on the legacy of the founder after his untimely passing in 2017. Active Planet Kids is focused on the mission to support parents and teachers in keeping student’s brains, bodies and spirits growing all summer long.
Lisa Roberts
Lisa Roberts has been both a Registered Nurse and certified Public Health Nurse for almost twenty years. A graduate of Southwestern College and San Diego State University, Roberts is currently completing a Master of Science degree in Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion at Mississippi State University. A Public Health Nurse for the County of San Diego for thirteen years, Roberts was the local lead for The Communities of Excellence in Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention (CX3), a two-city pilot project to measure and improve nutrition in low-income neighborhoods. A contributor to the fitness and nutrition sections of the Summer Fit Activities workbook series, Roberts lives in San Diego with her family.
James Cordova
James Cordova has spent the last twenty-six years coaching football, track, basketball and softball, with sixteen of those years as Head Coach. He was the 2014 Nike Coach of the Year Designee and 2013 and 2014 Coach of the Year presenter. Cordova was honored as Utah Football Coach of the Year in 2007, 2013 and 2014. He has also served as a Physical Education teacher for 16 years and has additional experience as a teacher, counselor and program coordinator. In his free time James likes to mountain bike, ski, work out at the gym and spend time with friends and family.
Kelly Terrill
Kelly Terrill is the owner of Active Planet Kids, publisher of the Summer Fit Activities series and coauthor and collaborator for the first five volumes of the series. An educator and mother of seven, Terrill wrote the series with her own children in mind. Along with other teachers, coaches and parents, she wanted to create a summer workbook series that was uniquely designed to encourage overall growth in academics, healthy lifestyles, and character development. Terrill studied elementary education at the University of Utah. She currently lives in Arizona and enjoys cycling, hiking, reading and spending time with her family.
Author: Active Planet Kids;
8.5″ x 11″ paperback, 176 pages;
ISBN: 9780998290249
Tillywig Toys’ Brain Child Award winner and a Creative Child Awards Product of the Year
As a mom and a teacher of 22 years, I appreciate the comprehensive curriculum of the Summer Fit series. We have used every one of the books. My kids look forward to their newest Summer Fit books each summer! Complete with physical exercises, math, reading, science and more, this program keeps us engaged and active all summer long. The kids don’t even think of it as school! If you’re not a Summer Fit family yet, do it! Fantastic, well-written and FUN!
There are many summer workbooks out there, but we believe Summer Fit Activities Workbooks have the most to offer. While they include activities for all subjects, it is the fitness and nutrition component that continue to interest our school administrators. The obesity rate among young children continues to rise and with these books children learn to incorporate daily habits that will lead them to live a healthy lifestyle. Healthy children are better learners and miss less days of school. With Summer Fit, students are engaged in the short but effective activities without being overwhelmed by a huge oversized book. Our customers and school administrators love Summer Fit!