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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Practicing letter writing in the sandbox is a great way to keep kids learning in the summer!
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Our library has a program where kids can sign up to read with a librarian once a week and they even bring in dogs sometimes for the kids to read to!
I would love to win!! I was just looking at these books at Barns and Noble the other day. This is our first year of homeschooling so I am excited to do a lot of reading and camp fun this summer.
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We read a lot, go to extra library events, swim lessons, etc.
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My girlies are 4 and 5 (pretty much 5 and 6) and they are doing grade 1 in reading and language this year, they are working so hard and I’ve been wondering what i’m going to do to keep them remembering what we have been learning while not doing the everyday homeschool routine, something a little more relaxed considering how hard they have worked this year through a major move and going to “school” 3 days a week (long story). My plan for this summer was to go through the K5 Abeka science reader and have them read lots of books to me but as far as math no idea…. these summer books would be great! 🙂
We homeschool year round, so these books would be good monotony breakers! 🙂 Awesome!
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We are just continuing in our workbooks but only doing daily grams and one page of math… oh and as a family we are going to be doing Rosetta Stone Spanish! We are planning to do short mission trips down to Mexico once our daughter is adopted so Spanish is very important.