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’ve been looking at this set over and over again lately. I’m bridging pre-k and kinder so it’s a bit easier I guess. I’ve printed out some new preschool packs and will also be reviewing some of our LOTW items. Basically some of our favorites from the year. Oh, and lots of reading.
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My daughter will be turning 3 at the end of this month. She is great with letter recognition, but we are going to add onto her learning this summer by going through numbers and recognizing those. I am just getting started on learning all there is on homeschooling and was recomended your site. I am looking forward to teaching our girls and the journey ahead.
My daughter will be starting kindergarten and these books looks like lots of fun. She loves reading and she would enjoy them. Thanks!
i will be starting to homeschool my oldest in the fall, and she loves to do worksheets so we will do worksheets to practice writing letters and numbers, and of course, read! she loves to be read to and is just starting to learn how to sound out words on her own….
I would LOVE, LOVE this! We are only taking 5 weeks off this summer and then starting again so that we don’t lose too much of our brains. In those weeks, we’ll be doing some reading and some science experiments because that’s what my kids want to do. This would be so awesome to fill in during our weeks off.
To keep the kids busy and engaged – we spend a lot of time at storytime at our library and we try to hit up some of our local museums.