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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My boys love doing our libraries summer reading program
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For my 1st grader we continue to read, practice math skills and do a little computer work. For my oldest we do a summer AWANA Bible study and really hone in on improving math skills.
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I hope to keep my kids busy by doing lots of fun activities. We hope to go to the library each week, plan a fun day each week even if its nothing but the park. As well I hope to keep my kids doing some school work as well. We’ll see how it goes. Thanks for your wonderful blog. Its greatly appreciated.
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I “assign” a couple of pages from my son’s many activity books that he would never do on his own. I also come up with math problems from everyday situations. We are doing a couple of summer reading programs.
We always keep up with our reading by taking trips to the library. We also visit the science museums to keep their minds active. Thankyou for the give away! I was just looking at these books last week thinking they would be great for my kids.
My kids do the summer reading program through the library. We are also going to do the road map usa this summer.
We reduce the intensity, but keep doing lots of reading about varied subjects, trips to the library, math flashcards, etc.