With summer officially beginning mid-day tomorrow, the teacher in me is just as excited as my kids but as a parent, I know how important it is for them to maintain their skills in order to prevent the famed summer slide. Making learning fun can be a challenge between camp, pool trips, and playdates but there are fun ways you can spend a mere 10-15 minutes each day to ensure that your child will be ready for school again come fall.
In this week’s post on The LeapFrog Community I wrote about Promoting Summer Learning for Kids with Different Learning Styles and included a brief review of the Summer Bridge Activities Series ($14.95 retail or $10-12 each from Amazon) designed for preK- 8th graders.
This series is perfect for paper and pencil learners who like show what they know on a worksheet. I like the format of Summer Bridge because the books are grade level specific and review content while previewing new reading, math, science, social studies, and geography curriculum that will be taught in the next grade level. Summer Bridge makes review for any age short and sweet- we found that it only takes 10-15 minutes a day to complete the required page a day!
If you’d like to enter to win a set of 2 Summer Bridge Activities books to use with you children this summer, read my Promoting Summer Learning for Kids with Different Learning Styles post on The LeapFrog Community and come back here to leave a comment telling me what kind of learner you think your child is.
Good luck and happy summer!
No compensation was received for this post. Thanks to Summer Bridge Activities and Carson-Dellosa Publishing for providing samples to review and as giveaways. I am a paid contributor to The LeapFrog Community but am not required to share my posts on my personal site.
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I think we have all become Multimedia learners because there are SO many awesome learning destinations online. We follow our homeschooling path year around. I have read about this series and would love to receive it.
You are right…motivation is huge for summer learning.
I have one child who reads nonstop, writes, and is generally good about doing her math workbook from school even if not tat interested.
I have another child who is motivated at times but needs constant reminders to “get it done.” I am thinking of instituting a job chart or perhaps using a cattle prod. Summer has not even started and I am dreading it a little.
I have yet another child who is young enough that rewards are an incentive. I can see myself trolling the ‘net for Silly Bandz giveaways to keep the little varmint on task.
G. is an auditory learner. He will listen to anyone read or talk about anything. He takes it all in like a sponge and remembers it forever.
N. is a visual learner.
I think S is a hands on learner as well as a multimedia learner. I’m hoping to sneak in some pen and pencil learning this summer too. Especially if I win one of these books!