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 do lots of reading and I sign up my older 2 kids for Time 4 Learning in the summer. We put that in the budget for the summer and both kids love it.
Hi! I would love to win this Summer Bridge giveaway! My son will be starting kindergarten this fall at home with me 🙂 We are so excited about this. He loves to read, so I will be taking him to the library once a week to update our books to read.
I love the material you put up on your website! To help my oldest, we do a lot of reading flash cards and writing. I do often times get work books to use on his problem areas.
I have several goals set for each of my kiddos to work on this summer (learning birthdate, tying shoes, number recognition) so I will think of some creative ways for us to meet these goals by september! I would be thrilled to add Learning Bridge activities to our summer days!
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