Do your kids do school work over the summer?

[Anonymous]

our k-8 & HS has summer assignments. Required reading + report & a math packet.

[Anonymous]

I was tutoring my kids from the time they were 3 years old at home. If the school assigned any work, my kids would finish it - regardless of if it was graded or not. Also, I curated reading lists from many sources year round, so that my kids were reading or being read to really quality books for pleasure.

If you have not taught your kids to sit down and do some kind of school work or learn something (maybe the 3 Rs) as a matter of daily routine - even for 30 minutes, you are doing them a great disservice.

[Anonymous]

My youngest does, although this was a busy week with camp and swimming, they came home too tired to do anything other than eat and go to bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was tutoring my kids from the time they were 3 years old at home. If the school assigned any work, my kids would finish it - regardless of if it was graded or not. Also, I curated reading lists from many sources year round, so that my kids were reading or being read to really quality books for pleasure.

If you have not taught your kids to sit down and do some kind of school work or learn something (maybe the 3 Rs) as a matter of daily routine - even for 30 minutes, you are doing them a great disservice.

Beginning at what age or grade?

[Anonymous]

My rising 3rd has daily assignments — reading, writing, math, spelling and piano. She’s behind in spelling and math. It’s a lot of work and I feel bad for her that she has to do it but I know she’ll feel good when she catches up to grade level.

For kids who are already at or above grade level I wouldn’t make them do anything. I would just let them enjoy summer.

[Anonymous]

We do math 2-3x a week
Reading 2-3x a week
Tracing/writing 1x a week

[Anonymous]

Middle schooler now. She has summer work, which started the summer after 5th grade. Prior to that, she read a lot and we continued her language immersion through camps or other ways and soms did day camps she was interested in. She's well above grade level and has always been a reader so I did not feel the need to set aside specific times to do formal and organized instruction. We went to the library, spent a lot of time outdoors, went to museums and/or went on family vacation.

[Anonymous]

reading mostly, sightwords and reading

the school provided a summer reading list, we've been working our way through that

the school also provided worksheets, DS is really good at math so we only do this like 1x per week