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 registered my son in the summer reading program @ my local library and I am planning a workbook for him yo to it all alone, for every 10 pages he ‘ll get $1 (he is only 5) and he is very excited with the hoop on phonics books so more reading.
We are just beginning our formal homeschooling this fall. This summer to bridge and get us ready for mom (me) being the teacher, we are having fun field trips once a week centered around civil war history in our area. We are visiting civil war sites and reading stories and books about the war. Living in southern middle Tennessee, we have a ton of battle sites available to us within an hours drive!
My goal is to keep going in the summer…not let the tidbits disappear over summer. We do fun things like swimming and then study sea creatures, or plan a day trip somewhere and study about that. We also plan on doing your Road Trip USA! Woot!
We participate in the summer reading program at the library and I give occasionally math worksheets to review.
We’re actually finishing up our 1st year homeschooling, so this will be our 1st official “break from school” summer. He just finished Kindergarten, so I was planning on taking a few trips to the library for story time and let him pick out some books that peak his interest. I was also thinking of getting some simple addition worksheets and working on his penmanship. I have 2 other little ones (4 yo and 2 yo), so there will definitely be arts/crafts thrown into our summer days.
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We use the Summer Bridge books and join the summer reading program at the library. Our kids like the bridge books a lot.
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