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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My upcoming 2nd & 4th graders will continue to read and do any of their math worksheets that didn’t get completed in the past year.
The kids play educational games online and read.
Echoing what many others have said, we really push the reading. We also focus more on science, social studies, art, music & other fun subjects. Taking the summer completely off is really not an option for our family. My children behave so much better when we have structured times of learning & they lose skills so easily!
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In our house we use summer as a time for different learning, more hands on
We read A LOT!
We always do local reading programs to keep the reading going. We also get packets from our local school that has a summer calendar and assignments to do. We used these when we were in public school and we are using them this year after our first year of homeschool. The packet has math, writing, science, reading, history all included. This is a great giveaway and we would love to win. Thank you for everything you do to help all of us homeschool moms. We so appreciate it!
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