I just set up charts for the four kids (3 with ADHD/executive functioning issues) to help them remember what they need to do each day as far as typical personal and household tasks. We're learning to be responsible.

Each lists their morning routine, a time for reading/typing/handwriting/music practice/math as needed, two or three simple chores each day so our house stays in order and they stay busy doing their fair share, and their evening routine. All so nothing gets forgotten and I don't have to remind them.

This also frees me up some so we all can work quickly to do our must-dos and have lots of fun free time for parks and pool and library and museums and area outdoor theaters and the planetarium and going downtown like tourists and doing projects.

If we don't plan our days, they don't get anything done while I'm busy and the whole day goes by with nothing accomplished and no time for fun. It is a struggle to keep the tv off and the mindless computer games off if I'm not monitoring. Now we have a plan that will help the rest of the summer be awesome!

All my kids do math, as well as reading, over the summer. For kids in elementary grades I pre-teach some concepts from next year's math - 18 lessons scattered throughout the summer. Each lesson takes about 5 minutes to teach and 10 minutes for them to do 15 problems. Hardly burdensome, yet extremely effective.
Kids in upper grades also do math, but only twelve lessons - and just review problems.

I think it's great that you are visiting the "Lost Colony", but I agree with Sofia that the LAST thing you want to do is more of the stuff she hates. Obviously, the boring textbook didn't excite her much in the fourth grade and by making her read and answer the questions in the fifth grade book boring book won't turn her on to history.
I don't know your finances or work schedule, but if you are unable to take her to other places, I would encourage her to watch the History channel. I had a third grade student who was super knowledgeable about all sorts of things yet couldn't read well. I actually thought that he was a world traveler at first, but he told me he learned all that "stuff" from the History channel!
We had leveled reading groups in our school and he was reading at a second grade level so, of course, he wasn't doing well in anything in his regular classroom.

I had several Usborne books in my classroom and he LOVED them because the information was in bite sized pieces with lavish illustrations.

Reading historical novels are another way for her to really grasp the history and social settings of the era without boring facts and timelines. Learning is and should be FUN!!! :)

Go to www.ubah.com/s1419 to find some of the fantastic books that will make her LOVE social studies next year! And good luck with whatever you do. I know that with a concerned parent like you she'll do fine. :)

I bought next grades social text book for my up coming 5th grader. She got very poor grades last year in social studies. I want to help her get a head up on next year. With some struggle to get her motivation going, she's been doing the questions and the lesson reviews. She has 13 chapters to do this summer. She's on Chapter 4, early America explorers. I'm thinking a trip to Mateo, NC to visit the "lost Colony". Help her get things in perspective.