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 daughter will be going into K next year so I plan on trying to work with her 3 days a week for about an hour to keep things fresh. Then have field trips the other two days! 🙂 I can’t wait.
My two older girls are 7 and 4. We have both girls signed up for the reading program at our local library. We try to read at least an hour a day and do worksheets and/or computer programs while their baby sister is napping.
Thanks for the chance to win. We will be doing vocab worksheets this summer, and my kids already love to read, so they will be able to continue that. Also, we will be going on a road trip this summer, in which I hope to be able to correspond the Roadmap USA curriculum in the states that we visit!
I am a subscriber to your email list. I just have to say that I LOVE it! I’ve found several fun things that I hope to be able to add to my curriculum!
I WANT ONE!!! My little Mya would love it. She’s into “School Time” right now. LOL
I want one!!!! My little Mya is into “School Time” right now!!! LOL She would love it.
My daughter is still a toddler, but I’ve started homeschooling through the entire year so that there will be no gaps!
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Lots of library time for my 4.5 yr old. We will practice reading her phonics through the summer to help retain what she has learned.