READING IDEAS

This summer learning tip is great for any grade level! Summarizing either through conversation or through writing is an important skill to practice. Click this link to learn more!

Word collecting is appropriate for all ages.  
The activities challenge us to expand our vocabulary
by collecting words, sharing them, and using them in our daily lives. Be a word collector and grow your ever changing vocabulary!

Inlearninglab.com

Brightly (readbrightly.com)

This site gives parents ideas for games they can easily create at home to practice sight words over the summer. Great activities for grades K-2.

Summer

Reading Bingo

Have students/parents make a bingo card listing places or situations they would like to read. As they do them, color the square. When they have Bingo, they get a reward.

Fact Fluency
with Playing Cards

This site gives you great ideas to practice all kinds of math facts with your child using an ordinary deck of cards. It has ideas for grades K-8.  If a game is for addition or subtraction, most likely it can be adapted to practice multiplication or division.  

Bookshelf Scavenger
Hunt

THREE WAYS TO
BUILD MATH SKILLS
THIS SUMMER

Children as young as first grade and as old as middle school can practice money skills. These summer learning tips are a great way to practice counting money in a fun way. 

“Try at Home Tips” 

Try these ideas at home
to practice your child’s skills. 

WORD WALLS

Use this summer tip to build vocabulary for any grade level! Building up vocabulary will build up comprehension throughout the summer. 

Shopping Lists and Recipes

Spelling, fractions, and sequencing

Ask your child to write down items on your grocery list.
When baking, ask them to help by using a measuring cup and reading
the steps for mixing the ingredients.
These activities will help them with spelling, fractions, and sequencing.  

MATH GAMES
WITH CARDS

Summer Reading Bingo #2