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 do school year round so we are still at it! We do take breaks to go to the pool and playground but for the most part we still do our morning and afternoon school routine. We will also take a two week break in July before we resume for the fall.
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My kids are preschoolers, so we keep doing what we do. Read tons. Partake in local reading programs (library), science opportunities (nature museum), and music class. We spend a ton of time outside year round in the woods and at a nearby farm and take advantage of teachable moments… be it catching toads in the backyard, watching water flow in a nearby stream, watching a mama goat give birth at the farm. I try to have other things on hand to keep weeks interesting, too… new games (#/letter review), match-ups, etc. When the spirit moves me (or I simply have energy) we’ll embark on something new!
We enjoy using “Time for Learning” during the summer months.
We do summer reading programs, flash cards and kumon books!
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This summer we are doing more science and finishing up our country studies. I was actually looking at these for the kidos for math and LA. So this would be super nice to win to help out with at least one book 🙂
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