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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summer reading program. we just keep doing what we do all year long.
We are playing lots of educational math apps on the iPad and reading everyday to prevent summer loss.
We do lots of crafts, outdoor stuff, summer reading.
We do a couple if reading programs and also math during the summer.
We stick to a schedule that starts day 1 of summer break. Since they’re already use to a schedule, it works. Reading, math and spelling are always included. Afternoons are spent at the lake or just having fun.
Those books look awesome. We continue homeschool thru the summer so they don’t lose any information, but we lighten it up.
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My oldest is 6 and we just finished our first year of homeschooling! In the summer we read a lot of books and take part in the summer reading program at the library. We take lots of nature walks, go to the children’s museum to explore. We also visit a historic working farm to learn about the the past.
This will be my first year dealing with this. My plan is lots of reading, iPad games and fun!
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