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I think it’s important to keep in mind that learning occurs through life experiences and play just as much as it does “book learning” as we call it. 😂
Encouraging reading is great, maybe fun workbooks with some math or vocab work, but I’m not really a parent who would make the kid to school style education work over the summer, unless there was some glaring hole in their learning.
If she is fine with the worksheets I don’t see why you’d need to stop them.
I think the reading is great. One concern I've heard from math teachers is how much math regresses during the summer break, so if you can come up with a fun way to keep those skills stimulated that would be good, too. Starbase MathTango is good for multiplication/division, and Fog Stone Isle for fractions (though the latter has a few bugs). If she's so inclined Khan Academy is good, but it's not what most kids would consider fun.
Honestly I would focus on getting to learn topics she doesn’t get to learn about during the school year. Maybe she wants to learn more about archeology or the chemistry behind cooking or Greek mythology. Go to the library and local historical sites as a family.
My kids learned by helping me and my wife around the house. We build things, cook, fix cars,laundry, landscaping, etc. They learn fractions, geometry, vocabulary (some PC, some not), physics, etc. when my kids hit geometry, they would use rough framing or pool tables as their examples to understand the laws.
I never did do formal worksheet time. I firmly believed that summertime is getting dirty time - through either work or play.
We have a summer workbook to help prevent regression, basically keep up with skills like language and math.
Otherwise both my kids are readers already and read a ton so we focus on learning through play. Zoo, aquarium, science exhibits, pop up events. Stuff like that. We used to go many times a week when they were little so its a nice throw back to be able to do it again even though they are a little older.
Tomorrow we are going to a monster truck pop up exhibit they will have 200 questions I will do my best to answer while they ooh and ahh over jumbo trucks.
I also sneak in themes. Like I got a library book about how Rollercoaster work for the day we are going to the theme park
The best way to keep kids from experiencing the "summer slide" is reading. Lots and lots of reading.
Also, kids like to talk about what they're reading, so you read too! Whatever she's reading, grab a copy and read along with her. You'll have something to discuss at breakfast time.
Worksheets are fine if that's what works for you guys, but I think I'd be more interested in having her work on an ongoing project that sparks her interest. You can find a lot of them on Teachers Pay Teachers. She can do independent research create a product, and share it with you at the end.
They do ancient Egypt in third grade where I live, so maybe finding a follow-up to that on TPT could be cool, or the Titanic disaster, or really any large calamity. Kids love learning about big historical problems.
But the main thing is keeping that reading going. Have a good summer!
Tiger momming it, eh? It's fine, but I personally think summer is better spent on deep learning. Academic learning has severe limits in general. Summer gives her a chance to actually do something, work on an entire project summer long she can be proud of.
Yikes, I certainly wouldn’t consider myself “strict” or “demanding”. I work, which limits the amount of hands on *anything* I can do with her during the day, hence the desire for structure.
We do the summer reading program through the local library. I’m lucky that my kid loves reading so he’s wanting to read daily without it being a requirement.
He’s going into second grade so I’m having him do a daily journal where he draws a picture and writes a paragraph. It can be about anything (lately every paragraph is a summary of a ninjago episode) I just want him practicing writing, sentence and paragraph construction, and spelling.
He still doesn’t know how to tie his shoes so we’re going to work on that this summer and continuing swimming lessons.
I might try to incorporate math or geography but I haven’t done so yet.
I buy my kids a new workbook at the start of every summer, mostly to have if they want it. My daughter does every page, my son barely any. We do reading time before bed, 20 minutes every day. Other than that we explore different places in our city like museums and parks, a lot of pool time, we have a kid recipe book and they pick 1 new recipe to help me cook each week, and random stuff like learning to tie shoes or new art projects. We go to the library every other week and do a lot of library events. Their school sends home a "recommended reading" for the next grade level and they love reading those and checking them off the list. We keep a generally structured day, mostly in when we eat and go to bed, but otherwise I'm kind of following their lead!
My daughter is going into 4th grade as well. She does 30 mins of reading a day which is just part of our normal bedtime routine not summer specific. I buy her a summer workbook and she's free to do it when she feels like it, but I don't require anything. She loves math so she'll typically complete the math section at least and then a few other pages.
My boys picked out non fiction books from the library each week and played the math app Dragonbox. The only thing I really had to “push” was handwriting because none of their interests involved writing utensils. But, I just made them write something a couple times a week: letters, grocery list, packing list, etc. Or sometimes they would do a math workbook, mad libs, or a crossword puzzle.
When I was little I LOVED playing school with my friends and we got excited when we got to bring our unfinished workbooks home. So, if your daughter enjoys it, go for it! But, I would stay interest based to have her love learning rather than having her feel like you’re raining on her summer.
I worked on math facts, and depending on grade addition,subtraction, multiplication and division. Reading was required, bought some read a story answer question books, and if we planned a fun activity a souvenir was awarded if a paragraph was written about what child was excited to do at fun activity. Normally 20-30 minutes a day. Just enough that there was no loss of learning in fall.
I get my kids a summer workbook every summer, and they have to read for a certain amount of time before they can watch any TV. But they play outside a lot and we go lots of places too so I don't feel it's too much on them! Just to keep them from falling behind over the summer
We do summer reading challenges and he will happily read for hours every day but honestly feel like summer vacation is so short, kids also need a chance for their brains to relax and reset. After our family vacation, he only has 3 weeks free to run around being a kid. I don’t make him do anything but he and his friends will sometimes come up with their own little summer projects (last summer they spent weeks in the workshop making swords and shields). I think having them be creative and lead their own activities is more beneficial than the same worksheets they’ll get all school year.
We work from home and alternate. Son is starting second grade. He wasn’t following in math class and his book from school is pretty blank. He’s doing the same math book at home, about a chapter a day. Big reward waiting at the end of he’s also practicing writing alphabet. We went to the library and he picked up a book for starting to read English on ninjago so he’s hooked on practicing reading English. He also reads a chapter Swedish before bed. School did a very poor job on all fronts this year and kept blaming my kid, I’m not seeing the same difficulties at all. He makes very good progress. He had a hard time since he felt behind at school so we want to help him catch up and it’s more effective to do it ourselves than ask the school.
So far most kids in the area are going to summer care which is just playing. He was pretty tired when he did that last year and said he prefers staying home. He had swim classes until recently and goes to the park every day, and we plan longer activities for the weekends and lots when our own vacations kick in.
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I think it’s important to keep in mind that learning occurs through life experiences and play just as much as it does “book learning” as we call it. 😂 Encouraging reading is great, maybe fun workbooks with some math or vocab work, but I’m not really a parent who would make the kid to school style education work over the summer, unless there was some glaring hole in their learning. If she is fine with the worksheets I don’t see why you’d need to stop them.
I think the reading is great. One concern I've heard from math teachers is how much math regresses during the summer break, so if you can come up with a fun way to keep those skills stimulated that would be good, too. Starbase MathTango is good for multiplication/division, and Fog Stone Isle for fractions (though the latter has a few bugs). If she's so inclined Khan Academy is good, but it's not what most kids would consider fun.
Honestly I would focus on getting to learn topics she doesn’t get to learn about during the school year. Maybe she wants to learn more about archeology or the chemistry behind cooking or Greek mythology. Go to the library and local historical sites as a family.
My kids learned by helping me and my wife around the house. We build things, cook, fix cars,laundry, landscaping, etc. They learn fractions, geometry, vocabulary (some PC, some not), physics, etc. when my kids hit geometry, they would use rough framing or pool tables as their examples to understand the laws. I never did do formal worksheet time. I firmly believed that summertime is getting dirty time - through either work or play.
We have a summer workbook to help prevent regression, basically keep up with skills like language and math. Otherwise both my kids are readers already and read a ton so we focus on learning through play. Zoo, aquarium, science exhibits, pop up events. Stuff like that. We used to go many times a week when they were little so its a nice throw back to be able to do it again even though they are a little older. Tomorrow we are going to a monster truck pop up exhibit they will have 200 questions I will do my best to answer while they ooh and ahh over jumbo trucks. I also sneak in themes. Like I got a library book about how Rollercoaster work for the day we are going to the theme park
The best way to keep kids from experiencing the "summer slide" is reading. Lots and lots of reading. Also, kids like to talk about what they're reading, so you read too! Whatever she's reading, grab a copy and read along with her. You'll have something to discuss at breakfast time. Worksheets are fine if that's what works for you guys, but I think I'd be more interested in having her work on an ongoing project that sparks her interest. You can find a lot of them on Teachers Pay Teachers. She can do independent research create a product, and share it with you at the end. They do ancient Egypt in third grade where I live, so maybe finding a follow-up to that on TPT could be cool, or the Titanic disaster, or really any large calamity. Kids love learning about big historical problems. But the main thing is keeping that reading going. Have a good summer!
Tiger momming it, eh? It's fine, but I personally think summer is better spent on deep learning. Academic learning has severe limits in general. Summer gives her a chance to actually do something, work on an entire project summer long she can be proud of.
Yikes, I certainly wouldn’t consider myself “strict” or “demanding”. I work, which limits the amount of hands on *anything* I can do with her during the day, hence the desire for structure.
We do the summer reading program through the local library. I’m lucky that my kid loves reading so he’s wanting to read daily without it being a requirement. He’s going into second grade so I’m having him do a daily journal where he draws a picture and writes a paragraph. It can be about anything (lately every paragraph is a summary of a ninjago episode) I just want him practicing writing, sentence and paragraph construction, and spelling. He still doesn’t know how to tie his shoes so we’re going to work on that this summer and continuing swimming lessons. I might try to incorporate math or geography but I haven’t done so yet.
I buy my kids a new workbook at the start of every summer, mostly to have if they want it. My daughter does every page, my son barely any. We do reading time before bed, 20 minutes every day. Other than that we explore different places in our city like museums and parks, a lot of pool time, we have a kid recipe book and they pick 1 new recipe to help me cook each week, and random stuff like learning to tie shoes or new art projects. We go to the library every other week and do a lot of library events. Their school sends home a "recommended reading" for the next grade level and they love reading those and checking them off the list. We keep a generally structured day, mostly in when we eat and go to bed, but otherwise I'm kind of following their lead!
My daughter is going into 4th grade as well. She does 30 mins of reading a day which is just part of our normal bedtime routine not summer specific. I buy her a summer workbook and she's free to do it when she feels like it, but I don't require anything. She loves math so she'll typically complete the math section at least and then a few other pages.
My boys picked out non fiction books from the library each week and played the math app Dragonbox. The only thing I really had to “push” was handwriting because none of their interests involved writing utensils. But, I just made them write something a couple times a week: letters, grocery list, packing list, etc. Or sometimes they would do a math workbook, mad libs, or a crossword puzzle. When I was little I LOVED playing school with my friends and we got excited when we got to bring our unfinished workbooks home. So, if your daughter enjoys it, go for it! But, I would stay interest based to have her love learning rather than having her feel like you’re raining on her summer.
I worked on math facts, and depending on grade addition,subtraction, multiplication and division. Reading was required, bought some read a story answer question books, and if we planned a fun activity a souvenir was awarded if a paragraph was written about what child was excited to do at fun activity. Normally 20-30 minutes a day. Just enough that there was no loss of learning in fall.
I get my kids a summer workbook every summer, and they have to read for a certain amount of time before they can watch any TV. But they play outside a lot and we go lots of places too so I don't feel it's too much on them! Just to keep them from falling behind over the summer
We do summer reading challenges and he will happily read for hours every day but honestly feel like summer vacation is so short, kids also need a chance for their brains to relax and reset. After our family vacation, he only has 3 weeks free to run around being a kid. I don’t make him do anything but he and his friends will sometimes come up with their own little summer projects (last summer they spent weeks in the workshop making swords and shields). I think having them be creative and lead their own activities is more beneficial than the same worksheets they’ll get all school year.
We work from home and alternate. Son is starting second grade. He wasn’t following in math class and his book from school is pretty blank. He’s doing the same math book at home, about a chapter a day. Big reward waiting at the end of he’s also practicing writing alphabet. We went to the library and he picked up a book for starting to read English on ninjago so he’s hooked on practicing reading English. He also reads a chapter Swedish before bed. School did a very poor job on all fronts this year and kept blaming my kid, I’m not seeing the same difficulties at all. He makes very good progress. He had a hard time since he felt behind at school so we want to help him catch up and it’s more effective to do it ourselves than ask the school. So far most kids in the area are going to summer care which is just playing. He was pretty tired when he did that last year and said he prefers staying home. He had swim classes until recently and goes to the park every day, and we plan longer activities for the weekends and lots when our own vacations kick in.