Summer Bridge Activities – Prevent Brain Drain

All three of our kids go to a year-round charter school. The purpose of our year-round school is to help the children retain more of their learned knowledge over the summer. Instead of starting each year re-teaching everything that was lost from “brain drain”, the classes are able to move on with the next level of instruction.

Even so, our kids will be out of school for six long weeks this summer. That’s a lot of time to fill when they’re used to being busy at school for most of the day. We’re already planning a couple of short trips and will have some days at playgrounds, museums and local events. To keep them from forgetting all of the school lessons they’ve learned this year, I’m also adding educational activities over their summer break.

The award-winning Summer Bridge Activities are the perfect way to prevent summer learning loss and prepare the kids for their next school year. The grade-specific books are designed to help children review the essential skills of their current grade level and to prepare for what they’ll learn next.

My five-year-old son has already started his Summer Bridge Activities even though school hasn’t quite ended. He was in an accident earlier this year and ended up missing over a month of school because of his hospital stay and doctors’ appointments. Thankfully, he’ll be fine and has been able to catch up on most of his school work, but we were concerned about the lessons he missed while he was absent from school.

So every afternoon now he works in his Summer Bridge Activity books. We are using both the pre-K to Kindergarten and the Kindergarten to 1^st Grade books because he missed so much Kindergarten. He really enjoys them and even reminds me that it’s time to “do his workbooks” if I haven’t gotten them out yet.

The workbooks are right on track with the lessons that he learned in school so he’s able to easily follow along with the assignments. He can work only 15 minutes each day to keep up with the lesson plan, but we are doing a little bit more so we can get through both books. (And he loves it, so I’m not complaining when he just wants to keep going and going!) I then check over his work and give him stickers that are included in the back of the workbooks. When he finishes a workbook, there’s even an certificate that I can write his name on and give to him as a reward for completing the book.

We’ve been very pleased with the and plan to have the girls use them too once school is out for the summer.

Summer learning loss happens, but it’s preventable. Summer Bridge Activities books can help prepare your children for the school year ahead.

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