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 always do the summer reading program at the library and I try and do a couple of learning fieldtrips or special “day camp” activities through out the summer.
My son just finished preschool so I will be using some workbook pages (which he loves) to keep his 123’s and ABC’s fresh in his mind. We are also working though Level One of a Spanish course as a family. It’s fun to do it together! Both of the kids will also be taking part in our library’s summer reading programs- one of my favorite memories of childhood summers. 🙂
Since 3 of my kids left school early this year (problems with the public school), and one of those has some behavioral issues (especially with changes in routine), we are “homeschooling” through the summer, using different curricula I have found and want to do, but with no real concern for “core standards” and such. I figure that way, we can establish the routine now and get the problems out of the way before we start formal schooling in August.