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 read and play alot of educational games. This summer we are also doing some themed learning using our sensory boxes. Our theme is pirates and princesses right now. I try to find activities that have the theme and the kids just love doing math and reading exercises when they have a princess or pirate to help them. We include fun seek and find books too.
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I have 3 kiddo’s under the age of 5 so we like “SCHOOLBOOKS” and we do alot of coloring, reading, singing and looking up animals online. My oldest would really enjoy a new schoolbook!
I love your blog- it’s such an inspiration and I LOOK forward to your email’s everyday! Thank you so much!
We participate in our local library summer reading program & don’t take a long summer break from homeschooling in general. But this year we may 🙂
I try to have a variety of things planned for my girls during the summer, from reading to projects. Thanks for sharing as always.
I would LOVE to win this. We are avid book readers and I am ALWAYS looking for things to do to occupy my (just now) 5 year old and 2 year old. Thanks for offering this!!
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I love to see all that you do with your kids on summer break! WE are playing outside and planning on swimming lots! I am hoping to do some experiments with the Magic School Bus books! I would love to get the Summer Bridge books to keep learning through out the summer.
This program is exactly what I was hoping to do this summer for my kids to help prevent brain drain. We would love to win one! Thanks.