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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We will be signing up (today!) for our library reading program. Also, I try to include “everyday science” experiments, art projects and crafts, and use everyday experiences (with planned visits) to reinforce math, languange, religion, etc. Just don’t call it school, but summer fun activities. Kids will be happy and learn through play!
We do a lot of real world things like planting gardens, hatching butterflies, creating lemonade stands etc. We also read, do puzzles and do math.
I have done numerous things over the years as my kids currently range from 25 down to 10 (and there are 5 of them). We have purchased grade level workbooks for them to do, used hooked on phonics SRA program (from the old program) to keep them reading and developing lang. art skills, to reading so many books and doing book reports, to journaling, and doing things the school sends home.
This year my son (10 year old) will be doing 1 math page, practicing math facts on computer programs, and will be doing hooked on phonics (where we left off last summer) along with one SRA story. Of course depending on the day he will do a few of these as I don’t like to burden them with to much during the summer.
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We have done workbooks to keep skills, hooked on phonics (both the learn to read program and the SRA program), and computer games.
Well, this is all pretty new to me. My son is almost 5, and I will be homeschooling him for Kindergarten this fall. We did do some preschool last year, and I have some workbook pages that we will be doing almost daily for fun this summer. Hopefully, that will help him to remember what we’ve done so far. Thanks for the giveaway!
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We do the library reading program!
We do lots of reading, outdoor activities and art projects through the summer. I’ve heard great things about these books… a great way to keep us going through the summer!