The nightmares of pupils, parents and even teachers, holiday homework is a hot topic as we approach the end of the school term and start to argue about whether it is a good idea to set it or not.

For homework, against homework: there are those that believe that kids deserve a break after the school year and those instead who think that too long a holiday without homework might compromise what children have learnt over the school year.

Taking into account these different viewpoints, Erickson offers a series of books which present a new approach not only to much hated holiday homework but also to preparation for an easy transition from nursery school to primary school and from primary school to lower secondary school.

Holiday homework

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS OF HOMEWORK

From the leading Italian expert in facilitated teaching, Carlo Scataglini, an innovative project which transforms much loathed holiday homework into «actively enjoyable» moments, helping consolidate what has been learnt over the course of the recently finished first year of primary school.
Three friendly little animals, who remind us of the three subject areas (Italian, Maths and subject foundations), lead children on a fantastic journey around the world in 9 legs, full of exercises, puzzles, riddles, rhymes, stories and pictures. After 80 days the journey (and homework) will be complete.

TRAVELLING FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

Holiday exercises, activities and games in order to get ready for lower secondary school.

From the leading Italian expert in facilitated teaching, Carlo Scataglini, a stepping-stone book in preparation for lower secondary school, completing the successful “Around the world in 80 days of homework“ series.

Three friendly characters will help children prepare a fantastic journey to the moon, through colourful worksheets, just like the writer Jules Verne imagined!
After planning the trip and keeping tabs on their progress on a map, kids will realise that the wonderful new world to be discovered is nothing other than lower secondary school!

PLAYFUL LEARNING

From the teacher Camillo Bortolato, the book and exercise book for helping children during the summer holidays using the revolutionary analogical method.
This isn’t the usual, boring brush-up workbook, it is a set of cut-out cards collected in nice envelops that you will be able to always carry with you.
During car journeys to reach summer holiday destinations, or under a beach umbrella or the shade of a tree in the mountains, or at home before going to bed, children can revise what they have learnt whilst having fun and challenging friends.

For fun with spelling

MINI SPELLING DETECTIVE STORIES

An innovative and fun series conceived by Susi Cazzaniga e Silvia Baldi which turns spelling, often considered boring and frustrating by children, into an opportunity for implicit learning and active enjoyment.

Each child must help the steadfast Inspector Spellor, a pure breed fox terrier who is extremely renowned in the world of solving crimes, and his assistant Agatha Bird, a tufted titmouse who is training to become an inspector, find those guilty of committing the shocking crimes that have put Scotland Yard on their guard.

By solving engaging puzzles, each child will obtain clues which will serve as conclusive evidence for catching the crook!

A series which turns spelling, often considered boring and frustrating by children, into an opportunity for implicit learning and active enjoyment.

To revise English

MONSTER ENGLISH

Five colorful exercise books with increasing levels of difficulty and numerous multimedia resources for learning English while having fun at primary school. The five exercise books contain the main topics studied at primary school: from grammar to lexis and communicative functions.

Each unit provides children both with individual exercises and fun activities together with games to be carried out. In addition, there are plenty of online resources (PDF worksheets to print, audio files and keys to the exercises) and an illustrated dictionary, containing all the words presented in the five units.

To revise Maths

WHO IS AFRAID OF MATHEMATICS? 1

Set in a dark and scary castle, the exercises offered give children practice with additions and subtractions up to 20: colouring in hidden pictures, mazes, bats, witches and scary pumpkins, children will gather up a series of clues which will lead them at the end of their adventure to free the castle from the spell that has bewitched it…

A WORKBOOK FRIEND SERIES

A practical workbook designed to be a useful tool which accompanies children in their acquisition of mathematical competences related to fractions, expressions, powers, multiples and divisors.

BREAKING DOWN PROBLEMS

From the teacher Camillo Bortolato, an innovative book dedicated to problem solving. Targeting primary school children and upwards, the exercises offered are turned into useful, entertaining games.

To get ready for primary school

DEVELOPING PREREQUISITES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL

A complete recreational programme, in two books, on cognitive and instrumental prerequisites needed to easily make initial progress at school, especially in reading and writing. Logic, linguistic, metalinguistic, graphic-motor and pre-calculation games are accompanied by exercises which stimulate attention, visual-spatial memory, awareness of time, and spatial orientation.

DEVELOPING INTELLIGENCE FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL

This book offers a training programme, specially designed for children aged 4-5 upwards, to help them learn how to adopt cognitive strategies for profitable learning on their own, in view of their entry into primary school.