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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Subscribed to the blog! Would love to have this for the too hot to be outside days!
I’m having my daughter review math facts and reading every day.
I already follow confessions on twitter!!
This fall will be our first year homeschooling. My daughter’s preschool made a wonderful binder of all the things they learned this year including LOTW. So we will be doing review activities out of her binder in preparation for kindergarten in August. I would love to get me hands on more materials to add to our lineup! Thanks
I already subscribe via Email and use Letter of the Week!
I have “liked” Carson-Dellosa on facebook…
Love your blog! My son just learned to read and we are planning on doing our local library’s reading program this summer to keep him fresh. Also, have some fun science activities planned! Thank you!
I have re-tweeted Erica’s post on twitter!
I liked Carson-Dellosa on FB
Honestly we are newbies and will really get into homeschooling more regularly in the fall. So, at this point I only have ideas to get through the summer 🙂 Would love to win this for future summers!!!