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 will be starting kindergarten this summer. I usually make CVC words out of letter magnets on the fridge one with each vowel and she likes finding the new words everyday. The summer library program is great, and reading reading reading!! 😉
My kids are still young, so we try to keep the “school” routine at least 3 days/week. I’m also doing a fun geography unit with my 5 year old this summer– she loves it!
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My 3yr old will be completing her letters of the week.
We do lots of reading, crafts, field trips into museums and Boston, and anything to keep the math up! I want my three kids to have fun but not lose all that hard work over the last 9 months!
We are going to do some lapbooks, science experiments, and various math exercises. Would love to win this!
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We do the summer reading program at the local library!
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