Do your kids do school work over the summer?
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Anonymous
| What school work do you make your kids do over the summer? I am worried about them sliding back academically in the summer. We let them take a break since the end of school but this week I am making them do worksheets and typing classes. And of course making them read books. FWIW kids are going into 3rd and 5th grades. |
Anonymous
| My kids are older, but when they were in ES, we continued our expectations for regular reading, but otherwise did not require any school work. It did not appear to hurt them. |
Anonymous
| We go to some effort to maintain language exposure (immersion program), but I don’t think I would worry otherwise. I expect reading but that hasn’t been hard to encourage my kids to do — I’m not sure how I would approach it if it were, because I don’t think it should be a chore. |
Anonymous
| Nope! |
Anonymous
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Math, reading, writing, native language. Every summer since they were school-aged. In high school it was test prep, part-time jobs, tutoring.
It's worked well for us, and honestly, doesn't take up a large part of their day. |
Anonymous
| The 3Rs daily - reading, writing, and arithmetic. |
Anonymous
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Don’t do this to your kids!
They will be fine. Just let them enjoy the summer. |
Anonymous
| No. We read but that's it. |
Anonymous
+1 here |
Anonymous
| My third grader got below 50%ile on the MAP reading test despite reading every night and much of the afternoons, so I’m having her do basic 2nd grade a reading comprehension workbook. Hoping we can breeze through different question types with practice and try 3rd grade reading comprehension. |
Anonymous
| They read and draw. Occasionally some Duolingo for fun. We did summerquest books k-2nd. 5th grade |
Anonymous
They could prob use some math and writing support. It’s time to not worry about school though as far as we’re concerned. Middle school is coming and we’ll have to work with study habits soon enough - want good core kid summer time now. |
Anonymous
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My only school age child so far has adhd and we continue a reading tutor for him over the summer with nightly reading homework.
I didn’t do school work over the summer as a kid but read a lot for fun. |
Anonymous
| My son's school assigns math, reading, and writing over the summer. IXL for math, reading a few novels, writing chapter summaries of each, choosing one to write a 2 page paper on. Everything is due by the first day of school and there's a quiz on 1-2 of the novels. |
Anonymous
| I buy worksheets but honestly we never do them |