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 was just going to pick up some of these books for the summer. My girls are workbook girls, so that’s what we are doing. Thanks for the giveaway!
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We do many fun activities through the summer and then focus back on letters and states in the fall. I try to do as much hands on learning as possible
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We plan on working on our alphabets and reading lots of books throughout the summer. 🙂
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There are so many free printable workbook pages online, it is easy to keep my kids interested during the summer break.
We will be starting homeschool in the fall and I am looking for workbooks to see where my son is at. He will be starting 2nd grade and after a horrendous two years in public school, we are excited to see what the future brings. My oldest child is 26, never had a problem with a school system until this child. He loves to read so we will be doing a lot of that, and will be outside most of the time since that is his favorite place to be.
We continue to do tons of reading, and we play educational games to keep math facts fresh in the mind without boring drills.