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 just finished my 1st year of homeschooling this yr with my 2 preschoolers, for summer we are gonna work on counting, so it’s pretty simple, if they ask for something I will try to have them count to a certain number first then as time goes on, I’ll keep increasing the number. I just bought an abacus at tj Maxxso that’s helping too!
We actually don’t review math, just keep going ahead in it during the summer. Plus, read, read, and more reading!
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Reading lots of books. Also getting the kids cooking to help with math.
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I am planning on doing lots of reading! Trips to the library, they always have fun events planned too. And some art projects since it seemed we didn’t do many of those this year.
we do a “summer challenege where my girls earn points for schoolwork and chores they do. They can then trade them in for different prizes.
This summer we will be doing lots of reading, math and finishing up subjects we didn’t get through yet. That should keep up busy this summer and help with the kids summer forgetfullness.
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