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 are going to do the Summer Bridge if I win it.
Read & play as many games as possible. They boys think we are jusy having fun, but I know we are learning!
We read lots of books and my daughter loves to do workbooks (we’ve called them fun pages since day 1). Whenever she gets bored, she likes to look through them and get her mind going. She would love these!
This looks like fun!
My kids are just finishing school – PreK, K and 1st – and we are going to start homeschooling in the fall. They are so excited they are already asking when we can start! Since I don’t have the whole curriculum planned out yet, we are going to spend the summer going on “field trips” – zoo, aquarium, kids museum, etc, and swimming in our pool. While I work on getting the schoolroom ready and entertaining our 2 yr old, it would be great to have some fun workbooks for the kids!
We are still learning stuff by doing field trips, nature walks, art and other fun stuff.
We have reading lists and work in our Carson Dellosa Homework Helpers to earn fun prizes. We also do lots of work in our nature notebooks. 🙂
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We tend to do worksheets, handwriting practice through writing notes to grandparents and lots of reading. I try to find learning opportunities whenever I can: reviewing colors with the littlest while running errands, money concepts while grocery shopping, etc. The kids don’t seem to mind which is great!