I know with school nearing a close for many of you, you’re wondering what you’re going to do so your kiddos don’t forget all those precious tidbits you so carefully lodged in their brains over the course of the year. While I don’t plan anything super hard core for summer (we all need a break, me included!) I do keep the kids reading over the summer, mostly fun books. They get to pick what they want to read and as long as it’s appropriate for them, that’s fine.
Just to keep all of the other subjects fresh in their minds, we also do some activities out of the Carson Dellosa Summer Bridge activity books! They’re literally ZERO planning on my part, and great for keeping kids skills fresh over the summer.
Keeping up with your students reading, math, and other basic skills over the long summer break is important. I’m not sure if this happens to your kids, but it seems like a few weeks after school is out my kids seem to forget everything they’ve learned the previous year.
Depending on the day, I usually have the kids are do 1 lesson per day out of their workbook. I don’t usually force the issue too much, there tends to be a time each day where they start getting bored, and the Summer Bridge activities are the perfect solution! The great thing about them, is that they’re colorful and fun, so it’s not hard to get them to do a page or two.
Just to make it a little more fun, we use our Educational Insights Smens pens to make it a little bit more fun. They LOVE IT!
And I kid you not, one of them said “Wow, this is so much more fun than regular school!” and the other came up later in the day and actually asked me if she could do some school in her new workbook! Are you serious? YEAH!
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I just started homeschooling my three year old daughter. It’s actually her who wants to learn her ABCs. So I am just gonna finish her ABCs throughout this summer with few visits to local attraction. Living in LA is great at this time ^^
We always take part in the library’s summer reading program. The library usually suggests some really great books for us to enjoy over the summer. And, then, on any given extremely hot Arizona day, we lay on our floats in the pool and I read to the kids.
My kids are still really young… 5, 3-1/2, 2 so, I’m with you… continue to read, read, read! It’s also a great time to explore outside and take it all in. They naturally ask lots of questions, which lead to great discussions and discoveries. Thanks for this opportunity to try some additional activities for the summer.
I provide childcare, so the kids and I are stuck at home most of the week – even in the summer – bummer. This summer we are loosely going to continue our math, start a new art curriculum and we will start handwriting in A Reason For Handwriting and send their border pages to grandmas. This will all be done during all the littles ones’ naptime after lunch. We got behind in our read alouds and will have plently of time to finish this summer. We did not borrow the recommended library books the last several weeks of school, so we’ll do that, too.
Like other folks have already commented, we continue to read, read, read! As we get further into our homeschooling career, I do want to continue math skills along with some fun unit studies or hands-on science experiments during summer weeks.
Thanks for this review and giveaway!
We read lots of fun books over the summer and the kids enjoy playing math games too.
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I tweeted about this giveaway here: http://twitter.com/Keep_Tha_Faith/statuses/209537844597895168
We do lots of reading over the summer and a workbook or two.
I would love to win this for my kids!