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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We like to read and spend more time on nature studies (hikes, camping, etc) during the summer. We also attend Vacation Bible Camps at our church and others as well.
We will do some reading, visiting local museums and other attractions, and some work sheets here and there. We don’t totally stop school during the summer, but take littles breaks to do more fun summer activities.
I ‘like’ Carson-Dellosa on Facebook. I got one of these last summer and noticed they have a Christian version as well!!! Hope they sell them here soon…..
What a fun giveaway! We do lots of reading and some fun “theme” week activities–like a week about birds or bugs or flowers. 🙂
We started school June 1st so we can take our school break in the spring. Daddy has vacation time from work in the spring and we’re looking forward to some family time.
When my kids start up the “I’m bored!” routine we take out some of our dry-erase laminated math dice games. They’re always a hit!
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We read every day over the summer. Joining the reading programs at the library and half price bookstore are a great incentive for the kids to read each day. We also do a lot of outside activities like gardening which keep them learning as well.
I think for this summer I was going to have them read to me a few times a week and do a workbook like what you are giving away so it would be sooo perfect for us!!!! I want to make it easy and fun for the summer so we can spend more time outside playing!!!