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 don’t take a super long break, maybe 4-6 weeks. This lets us take off more time during the school year and also curbs the learning loss.
We are going to be reading lots, doing one page of math practice, and something that makes us write, but I am not sure what yet.
Oh yes, we want to fight learning loss this summer!
We combat the learning loss by continuing to school through the summer. We just do shorter, lighter work and more outside play.
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We will be visiting the library for some good books, doing some science and art camps, and practicing our math facts!
We do daily reading & daily math practice. I also let each of my 4 kids pick a topic they personaly would like to know more about and we do fun activities focusing on those topics only. This summer my 10yr old son wants to know more about medievil times, my 10yr old daughter wants to know more about different art styles, my 9yr old daughter wants to know more about the human body, and my 7yr old daughter wants to know more about butterflies.
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My son would love this. We’ve been struggling with what to do this summer. He loves to work on worksheets all the time.