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 am homeschooling my 5 year old. This summer we will keep up our reading with long and short vowels…..and do a little math and writing refresher every once in a while.
We still do home school over the summer, just HS Lite as I call it (:
We read every day,. play with our sensory tubs, and go on “explorations” for weekly themes. They love it! Thanks for this awesome opportunity of a giveaway — my kids LOVE workbooks. Crazy huh? (;
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We do a much less structured “school” in the summer. Lots of outside time and tot trays when we can. I am currently using the Kumon books for the summer.
I would love this. My first child is starting Kindergarten and we need the constant preparation all throughout the summer. We need to make sure he is ready to go!!!
I forgot to mention that I have printed out most of your Letter Activities. And we work on them everyday plus he loves the activities a lot!
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This is really our first year of homeschooling. We have been working on a reading program, so we will definitely continue that. We also love to just read and will spend lots of time cuddling up to share a great book.