Do you make your child do workbooks or work on the upcoming year during the Summer????
My daughter will be in the first grade so I bought her a 1st grade readiness book and try to make her work in it a couple days a week. And not for a long time, just a couple pages. She knows most of it but it is like pulling teeth to try to get her to do it and then she will get side tracked and say she cant do it and I know she can. I end up getting upset because I want her to focus and to learn. Maybe I shouldnt make her do this during the summer. But I just want her to be prepared!
DS will be starting Kindergarten this year and he's been doing math practice on the computer thru a program he started in pre-k. Other than that we haven't really been giving him any workbooks, but I have been having him practice writing and learning what different things are and such in a non-schooly way. Like when we go out to eat, they usually have an activity sheet they give kids. Even tho he's really too young for some of the stuff, I help him do it, sometimes changing the rules. He enjoys all of it.
Make, no lol, but my 8 year old dd saw some workbooks last night at the store when we were picking up some stuff to go camping this weekend, and begged and begged for them, so i got them for her since i am not going to say, No, you can't do school work lol, and she has been working on them steady all day.
I'm not a big fan of workbooks or anything that makes my child feel like I'm cloning their classroom in our kitchen (or living room or...you get the idea.) There are so many ways to practice academic skills that are fun and, quite frankly, sneaky. DD is going into 3rd grade and needs to brush up on her multiplication facts. Instead of doing drills and workbooks, we play games. I'll play a board game with two dice - she multiples the two to figure out what to move. We play store and I ask her what I'd have to pay her if I buy 5 of these dolls that cost $4 each. She doesn't always connect that I'm making her practice math. ;)
My kids love playing Scrabble. They also love playing on their electronic gadgets. We'll scatter around the houes and play Words with Friends - they are practicing spelling and their vocab. They love to read - so we set aside family reading time. It's usually different books, but we do all read at once. DS needs to sharpen his grammar skills - we write stories together. I'll write a line and then email it to him. He'll add a line, etc. We put mentos in soda bottles and then talk about chemical reactions. :) We practice fractions, reading, measurements and time by baking together. We practice our math when we play basketball out front - I appoint one child the scorekeeper and put them in charge of adding the scores up. Sometimes I add in extra point shops to keep them paying attention. ;)
Skip the structured workbook and make it fun. The key is to keep her reviewing what she's already knows without tuning out or "I hate learning" route because it's a fight.
They sent my kids home with some. I enevr made them do it, but they do it once a week on their own with little help. My oldest helps her sister who is one grade behind her. I wouldn't care much if they DIDN'T do it. Summer is too relax. They're kids and should be allowed to be kids. I never did it and me so smart! Lol.
My daughter and I studied some of what she will learn in kindergarten - like learning a few sight words with some DVDs I got called (aptly enough) "Meet the Sight Words!" I have many workbooks (some k and some pre-k) that we have done 5 or 6 pages of a day off and on over the summer. I wait for her to ask to do them, because she knows if she completes the set she gets a surprise from the surprise bag (mostly $1 toys and clings and stickers.) And we have always read a lot and still do.
My son's school sends home packets at the end of the year for the next grade. We always do them.
My plans was to buy the workbooks for him but financially I could not afford. This summer my son enjoy going to field trip and having fun.
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on Aug. 9, 2012 at 12:00 AM