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 like doing the reading programs offered at the local libraries as well as doing workbook activities.
To keep things going this summer, we make sure we read, read, and read! As long as we dont let that slip from our routine things stay on track. Books are wonderful and can lead into so many unplanned learning opportunities.
Over the summer, we read and continue to follow great blogs as yours. Thank you .
We will continue with our history lessons through the summer. The program runs long anyways and if we finish, we’ll just start next year’s work.
We plan on working through the summer at our own pace. What great ideas are posted here – we’ll have to try a few.
We love Summer Bridge Activities! Last summer my son was in public school, and we used Summer Bridge Activities to help him get ready for the following year. He enjoyed learning at home so much that he asked me to homeschool him! Since then we’ve never looked back.
To keep up this summer, we plan on doing a lot of reading and “investigations” of things that we are curious about. Right now we are all about gardening and flowers.
I would LOVE to win this!! I had been thinking of buying it, but any help with not having to pay for something would be HUGE blessing!!!
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I am planning to have the kids read books, write a journal/scrapbook their summer, and do some math. These look really fun!
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