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 some fun summer review activities!
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We fight summer learning loss with flashcards. For math, social studies, geography…they can go anywhere and their dad makes games out of them. Works wonders when it’s fun with dad!
We fight summer learning loss with flashcards! Math, social studies, geography…they can go anywhere and their dad makes games out of it. Always works when it’s fun with dad!
My kids attend public school during the school year, and then we homeschool (mommy school, as my kids call it) during the summer. We spend about 1 1/2 hours studying a topic of interest. We have been grateful for your artist series. These are the things that enhance our learning. Maybe someday I can convince my husband and kids to educate completely at home.
We usually continue math and assigned reading all summer long but try to do as much of that as we can lounging around under a shady tree or by the pool. This summer my 4th grader is also doing All About Spelling because it is helping her so much we are are afraid to take a break! We also try to get into as many artsy crafty activities that we can since we seem to get so busy during the school year.
We try to join lots of summer reading programs. This year we are going to loosely do the Five in a Row book.