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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Hello! We are a new home schooling family and the kids are still young at 3 & 5, so our summer will be continued learning through play with lots of reading, exploring and use of the many local progams at the library, museums, zoo, etc… We will be trying to adjust and find our way with lots of observation to see how the kids learn best and how we as parents can provide the best environment for our family. I just completed a little bible study from your website – Super Mom vs Abiding Mom. Thank you! focusing on the Lord and His calling has already helped me! ( I would love more if you have more to share). My husband & I will be working together in our homeschool and I know we both will be learning so much along this new journey. We do have a few mini unit studies I am introducing – one we are finishing up today where we combined Dr, Seuss and World Ocean’s Day activites, there was so many resources out there to tie together. Soon we will “begin with baseball” a fun unit study we are still preparing for. (any advise here appreciated) I stumbled across your website well researching homeschooling and I must congratulate you and your family. Thank you for sharing so much, and blessing our family! I will try to be an active supporter. May God continue to bless you and your family – have fun and “relaxing” summer. Marti 🙂 (PS as I was just about to post for the first time which forced me to scroll all the way down on your site & I saw the biblical references your posted & they reminded me where we need to focus 1st everyday :))
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I plan on reading a lot and doing lots of educational games/play!
My husband is going to help my son memorize his addition and subtraction tables and I will be reading with him this summer.
I am planning to homeschool my four children next year. We always do some type of workbook during the summer and they love the summer bridges books. We also go to the library and read every day. We also sign up for our local book programs.
We continue with math and English/writing but in an abbreviated format and try to add in fun extras from history, science, art, and languages.
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