What do you do for summer enrichment? Elementary school.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS will also be in the third grade. If your son already has reading an math assignments from school, I would try to build in cultural education - museums, visits to historic sites, etc.

We typically choose a long series or topics of interest and watch documentaries or learning shows on hot summer afternoons. I let DS choose what he wants to learn about and try to find something related on Netflix. He watched Cosmos last summer and has had a passion for space ever since. We also watch shows on animals, Egyptian mummies/pyramids, etc. good stuff, not boring. Often we'll follow up with a trip to the library if something has captured DS's attention.

We watch cartoons and play video games too, but I tend to reserve that for the weekend.

These series entranced my 3rd grade daughter and her parents


From the Earth to the Moon is a twelve-part HBO television miniseries (1998) co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick, telling the story of the landmark Apollo expeditions to the Moon during the 1960s and early 1970s in docudrama format. Largely based on Andrew Chaikin's book, A Man on the Moon, the series is known for its accurate telling of the story of Apollo and the outstanding special effects under visual director Ernest D. Farino. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_%28miniseries%29

John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of U.S. President John Adams' political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John Adams by David McCullough. The biopic of John Adams and the story of the first fifty years of the United States was broadcast in seven parts by HBO between March 16 and April 20, 2008. John Adams received widespread critical acclaim, and many prestigious awards. The show won four Golden Globe awards and thirteen Emmy awards, more than any other miniseries in history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_%28miniseries%29

These are good. Any other videos that people recommend? They can be a little lighter than these and ideally shorter too.

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My kids love watching the ASAP Science videos on YouTube -- they are generally around 5 minutes, animated drawings, and explain a particular question.

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I send mine to camp - outdoors, running around, playing, exploring, learning to swim. We'll work on bike riding and other physical activities. They will learn plenty through fun and exploration.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS will also be in the third grade. If your son already has reading an math assignments from school, I would try to build in cultural education - museums, visits to historic sites, etc.

We typically choose a long series or topics of interest and watch documentaries or learning shows on hot summer afternoons. I let DS choose what he wants to learn about and try to find something related on Netflix. He watched Cosmos last summer and has had a passion for space ever since. We also watch shows on animals, Egyptian mummies/pyramids, etc. good stuff, not boring. Often we'll follow up with a trip to the library if something has captured DS's attention.

We watch cartoons and play video games too, but I tend to reserve that for the weekend.

These series entranced my 3rd grade daughter and her parents


From the Earth to the Moon is a twelve-part HBO television miniseries (1998) co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick, telling the story of the landmark Apollo expeditions to the Moon during the 1960s and early 1970s in docudrama format. Largely based on Andrew Chaikin's book, A Man on the Moon, the series is known for its accurate telling of the story of Apollo and the outstanding special effects under visual director Ernest D. Farino. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_%28miniseries%29

John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of U.S. President John Adams' political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John Adams by David McCullough. The biopic of John Adams and the story of the first fifty years of the United States was broadcast in seven parts by HBO between March 16 and April 20, 2008. John Adams received widespread critical acclaim, and many prestigious awards. The show won four Golden Globe awards and thirteen Emmy awards, more than any other miniseries in history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_%28miniseries%29

These are good. Any other videos that people recommend? They can be a little lighter than these and ideally shorter too.

One year we watched Magic School Bus (fun science) and Liberty Kids. It's not really a documentary, but my DS and I watched a couple of seasons of Little House on the Prairie (we've read several of the books together). It gave a sense of what it was like to grow up in that time. In one episode, the town came down with typhus (gee no antibiotics), in another, Mary lost her glasses and guess what? Pa couldn't just hop over to Mankato and get her another pair. We got a lot of mileage out if that show.
Netflix has a series calls "Speed Kills." It's basically really fast predators taking down some hapless gazelles. DS loved it - and we talked about the food chain. Brutal.