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 just do lots and lots of reading. Keeps those little minds engaged!
I don’t homeschool so the summer is my time to help my son learn. I love your units and the mail carrier one is perfect for us this week. I try to take what he wants to do, in this case he asked for a mailman unit, and find activities that will help him continue to learn what he did over the school year. I try to do this in a fun and easy way since it is still summer 🙂 Thanks for all your ideas and printable they help make the work so much easier.
Sunday afternoon we laminated our table top with parchment paper and clear contact paper. The kids have had a great time writing and drawing on the table with dry erase or washable markers.
Would love to add these Summer Bridge books to our summer “to do” list! 🙂
I have planned watching Spanish videos from GA PBS’s Salsa series, playing “spelling bee”, and doing crafts, plus blow up pool time and a couple VBS camps.
Basically just Read, Read,Read! Love the summer reading program at our local library. This summer I’m also throwing in a language arts workbook and some fun math worksheets:)
I have my 3 year old and a 5 year old whose family cannot afford preschool. We started later in the year, so we are continuing our normal curriculum through the summer. However, I was thinking of getting the summer bridge for the little boy to use at home with his parents. Winning it would be even better than having to buy it!
This is our first year to have this gap because my oldest just finished Kindergarten. We plan to do lots of reading and staying active.
We read everyday and work on math, mostly quick easy stuff like run through math facts flashcards or even some online math games. Watch out for those though, so many are not at all educational.
We are doing several summer reading programs (Barnes and Noble, our local library, homeschool buyers coop and scholastic), as well as daily math worksheets…these summer bridge workbooks would be perfect! We are also going to do a fun geography project this summer to get ready for our study of the world next year