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 kids love participating in the summer library reading program…of course we’re often at the library so they all know us there! This year I’m also putting together packets of fun and easy review sheets. I can hand them each one at the start of each week (maybe a page a day stapled together). This way they can keep up their skills and still have the “break” of summer! We still do field trips with friends and local home school groups during the summer too. Of course, if I won these books I wouldn’t have to make up so many packets, would I? : ) They look great!
I am a nanny and would love one of these books as I work with the kiddos this summer. It would be perfect for them.
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I have a 2 and a 5 year old and I have been trying to do read alouds everyday with them.
My kiddos enjoy me reading to them and since they are not reading yet, I try to read for at least 30 minutes to them a day.
We try to do one math activity every day – play a game, review flashcards, do a worksheet, anything to keep the math juices flowing! We also read throughout the summer – silent reading as well as read-alouds.