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!
Interested in some summer bridge activities?
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I like to incorporate more outside field trips and more hands on messy activities to beat the heat and fight summer learning loss!
These look great! We don’t do anything special. During the week we rotate reading 1 day and math the next. We take Friday and the weekends off
We use flash cards and the library to keep the kids excited about school.
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Love this program and use this throughout the summer, we review what is necessary, and also each child works on area that they need more help in throughout our summer break. This said, it only requires about 1 month, as we school all year. We also love adding daily lessons to our summer break and bucket list that will follow what we want to learn!
God bless
My little girl is turning three this summer, she knows her colors, ABCs and can count to 15…the plan for this summer is to get her to learn to write her name and better recognize the ABCs.
Liked page, wanted to add that I have some great resources for summer fun and educated fun for summer weather!
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Kim
We read during the summer… but that’s about it. It would be nice to have this set!
Hi! We would love the chance to win!! This is our first year homeschooling our 5 yr old quadruplets. We thought we’d continue our curriculum through the summer to prevent learning loss but when I came across these fun activity books we decided we’d love to try these instead!!! Thank you for this opportunity!!
I sign y kids up for as many summer reading program as I can.