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’m just planning on continuing LOTW with my 3 year old, but nothing too forced! We read a LOT too! It’d be awesome to win!
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I plan to take my son to the Library for the summer reading program.
Looks like a great way to keep the my boys remembering what they learned this year 🙂
I will also pick up some workbooks and do some morning learning time
We are doing “mini-school” this summer. I have reduced our workboxes from 10 (which is what we usually do in the regular school year) to only 4 or 5 with very SHORT review activities, just to keep up with what we have done so far and to keep it fresh! We don’t have a strict schedule like during the schoolyear, so we may do one or two in the morning, go off and play, do another before lunch, and do the last ones in the evening! We love mini-school!!
I subscribe via email too!!
We’ve only started preschool so there isn’t much we have to worry about them forgetting. Also my husband works at a summer camp so it is easier for us to have a longer winter break than a long summer break, at least that is the plan.
I have subscribe to your page on FB thats how I found out about this give away