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 reading fun books. Also we will be doing some educational games on the computer. The children have fun playing games and do not realize they are learning at the same time!
This is our first summer after homeschooling, so it will be new. I do plan on doing some math and reading at least a couple of times per week, so hopefully there won’t be much of a slide if any. I have looked at the Summer Bridge workbooks before and would definitely use them. Thanks for the opportunity.
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we are reading travle guides for our cross the usa trip in a year. my youngest also wants to learn to read so ill start that 🙂
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I read to my children daily and am working on reading and letter lessons with them weekly.
Hi! I would love the opportunity to utilize Summer Bridges Activity Book for my 9 yr old whom struggles to focus, The colorful pages and fun activities would be a great tool to prevent learning loss and keep him interested in learning!!! Thank you!!
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I still have my son do one math lesson each day and he’s on a reading plan to read through the New Testament of the Bible by the end of the year, so he reads the Bible every day. We also participate in summer reading programs at the library and read a lot of books.