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!
Interested in some summer bridge activities?
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This would be a great resource for my boys!!! They love to have “school” time!! Thank you for the opportunity!!
Looking for something just like this to keep up the learning through the summer. I usually send my kiddos outside to find ” something interesting ” and then we come in and investigate it, study it, and look up information about it on the internet! I am always learning something new that I didn’t know! We have fun just doing that, but these books look great!
We also do the summer reading program through the library.
My oldest is 5, but we ended up trying homeschooling on for size last summer using Five In A Row, and it was fun and worked out great for all of us. So I plan to homeschool this summer too. I think schooling year round will allow us lots of flexibility for going slow where we need to, and taking breaks when we need to without any pressure.
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Lots of reading. And lots of messy art playdates with friends (so we can keep the mess outside).
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We do much of the same, lots of reading. I find that the older ones really need and deserve a break (as do I!) and the younger ones need a little bit of review during the summer. Thanks for letting us know about the Summer Bridge Activities!
We do the summer reading program here in our community. We have daily reading time/story time and ask lots of questions and play educational games.