Keep your child active, engaged and learning throughout the summer. 

   Summer is not the time to take a break.  It's a time to maintain, remediate, and enrich academic skills.

    Here are some HOT Ideas! 

 

   Keep your child in an academic routine!

• Be sure to check out a new summer workbook that has come to our attention called Summer Solutions!  Concepts include Reading Comprehension, Problem Solving, Language Arts, Algebra, Study Skills, & a Math & Language Arts book for Pre-K!  It’s a great way for students to hold on to what they learned this school year in just minutes a day!   www.summersolutions.com
•         Check out my Summer Activities page for more ideas!

   Keep up with their reading!

• Visit the St. Louis County Library.  Involve your child in their summer reading program.   ~  http://www.slcl.org
• Book Adventures
  Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is sponsored by Sylvan Learning, Inc.

 

   Keep up with their writing!

 

• Have them keep a journal or diary
• Create Your Own Adventure ~ Create a creature adventure
• Story Builder ~ Have fun making your own stories using Squigly's story builder.  
• Story Starter Generator  ~ Spin the wheels!  Round and round you will go and where it stops noone knows!
    

  Keep up with their Math!

• Visit my "I Want to Practice Math" page for lots of learning websites!  Incorporate Math into all your summer fun.      

 Visit 101 Nature-Oriented Things to Do During the Summer  for outdoor learning activities!

 Visit http://homeschooling.about.com/library/bljun21a1.htm  for fun summer craft projects.

 

 Don't forget about the kitchen!  

             Daily recipes that kids can easily make! Don't forget to ask permission first!

• Summer Snack of the Day
• Visit http://homeschooling.about.com/library/bljun21a1.htm for fun summer recipes! 

  Explore St. Louis! 

http://www.explorestlouis.com/visitors/forKids.asp

  Check out the Summer Camp Guide at KSDK.

       http://www.ksdk.com/life/advertorial/summer_camp/default.aspx

  Summer Fun Ideas at  

•  http://www.kidsturncentral.com/summer/summerfun.htm

•  Car Games ~  Games for the road!

•  Memory Book

        A book for you to print out and write while on vacation, recording precious memories along the way!

• Car Travel Activity Book

       This is an activity book that you can print out and use on long car trips!

    Have fun, fun, fun!