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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As a former teacher, everything you said about learning being “lost” over the summer is so true. I’ll start homeschooling this fall, but one thing I always advised my students’ parents to do is to have their kids keep a journal. It’s a great way to keep up writing skills (which complement reading skills) and also a great keepsake for them to chronicle their summer adventures. This really is a great habit year-round, and helps kids see writing as something fun and exciting and creative, rather than “just another subject”. 🙂
We just moved and unpacking is not exactly fun for the kids! I hope to get myself organized for more than just reading this summer. These books look great for giving them some refresher time each day! Thanks
I would love to win these. We plan to do a lot of reading this Summer on the road.
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We do a lot of outdoor activities. Things to keep them busy and active that we don’t get to do so much during the school year. We also do a lot of reading still! I would love to win this to help keep those little minds sharp and occupied over the summer!
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We do Unit Studies through the summer, and he actually looks forward to it each day!
My plan this summer is to keep the boys reading and to do some math reviews. They reallly enjoy the math games on the iPad.
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