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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My two girls love playing school, my oldest daughter is the teacher and her little sister is her student. This would be a great addition for my little homeshcool. This would also be great to keep their busy and immaginated minds busy.
I also have four kiddos. All of them are boys and the oldest is seven. I enjoy your blog and find it super helpful. We go to the library and read and do workbooks =) These look perfect and I will most likely be ordering them even if I don’t win =)
We are doing a lot of reading and some history review. We are homeschooling year round and only breaking during our vacation.
Summer is a great time to keep learning! Trips to museums, parks, and historical sites are both fun and educational. I have a tub full of worksheets in all subjects, and my son enjoys doing them when he gets bored, so that will definitely be on the summer agenda. He gets so proud wen he learns new sight words, so reading to him and practicing sight words will be a major focus in the coming weeks. I also plan on searching online for educational games to play with him, because he is an only child and often gets lonely. What better way to fight boredom than to play games and learn at the same time? Pretend play is also encouraged, and my son has a HUGE imagination! We play everything from mail carrier to McDonald’s. This summer my child will be having fun and learning all at the same time!
We love the library–we participate in the summer reading program and library programs. We also go on lots of field trips to museums, etc.
We move our “worktime” outside, everything is more interesting then!
We school through the summer. No matter what they need to read, write, and math four days a week and we play for the long weekend. Friday our “play” includes making rhubarb jam. My four year old is just getting in the groove.
Would love to win this, I was actually just looking at these on Amazon the other day. I feel it is a good way to not lose everything over the summer. Keeps their mind engaged without any teacher planning.
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