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 love your blog and read it constantly! I am homeschooling two girls. This summer we are doing a light version of school. Reviewing letters, sounds, numbers, and lots of reading together.
We mostly just continue with our reading over the summer. We join the reading club at our library and read books every night at bedtime.
I am a big fan of books like these to help review last year’s lessons and get a preview for next year. We also love to read and take a lot of trips to the library. I also usually create a theme each week and hide some learning into fun crafts and activities. I love sneaking learning into fun!
Like many others have stated, we spend alot of our summer reading books- participating in the Barnes and Noble and our local library reading programs. Other than that, we also do a few fun worksheets to keep our writing skills fresh.
We plan to keep up with our reading, use the summer reading programs at the library, and lots of discovery/exploring in our community.
We love to find new books at the library and attend our library theater shows. The kids Love them!!!
We do lots of reading and either the School Zone or Brainquest workbooks. I would love to try the Summer Bridge series.