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 7 year old joined some summer reading programs. I also look around the Internet at all the wonderful blogs for resources.
My fourth grader and I will be working on enhancing her reading skills. She had gotten better last summer but I sent her back to public school and she fell behind again! So we are working to get her back to where she should be and keeping her there! As for my 3 year old, she was ready to learn her ABC’s and numbers so we have picked up the Letter of the Week. We are all participating the the Library summer reading program as well as the Barnes and Noble program.
We are going to continue with our reading time and switch to everyday/real world math. Since we are having a baby (today!) it will be quite laid back.
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Lots of trips to the library, and we’re going to try some online math sites this summer!
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We signed up for the summer reading program at the library, we do workbooks/ worksheets. In the past we did music classes but this year my guys wanted to do art camp.