Do you think most people do math/handwriting/writing work over the summer?

[Anonymous]

Some kids do. My DD doesn't.

[Anonymous]

Most people I know, including me, do summer work to maintain skills and/or improve areas of deficiency. Not make the kid super-advanced and get into Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Just like in sports

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just like in sports

My kid loves, LOVES soccer. He know that if he wants to get better, he needs to practice. Same for math. He knows that he needs to practice to gain confidence and improve his ability.

Not really worried about Harvard (we have the Pre-paid tuition for a state schh, so I'm hoping for that), but I want DS to be able to keep up and know what's going on in class.

[Anonymous]

School, not schh.

[Anonymous]

My son did Kumon like he always does, and is finishing his school math packet. Reading is what he always does at breakfast, and sometimes before bed. No cursive, although he probably needed it.

[Anonymous]

Yes both my girls had to do work before they begin to enjoy outside time. I usu alternated between math, language, writing, and music. We are all creatures of habit and structure is good. I can't imagine how hard it would be on the kids to not be keeping up their skills over the summer and then jumping back into school mode. It seems inefficient and unnecessary to have to relearn everything as opposed to just keeping up with your knowledge over the summer. Novel concept right? And yes, it does take effort to pull work together and hit file-> print or buy a spectrum book from amazon to assign a couple pages from. So what. Kids are worth it.

[Anonymous]

I think it also depends on the ages. When my kids were younger we didn't have any trouble getting in some worksheets everyday.

This year with more sleep away camps we did less. My son who on a family beach vacation will read a book a day (novels), has barely read. The books sent to camp came back uncracked (which is fine, means they kept him busy). He's also going to bed to tired to read, and during the school year he reads for about 30-45 minutes each night. We barely got in our required FCPS reading list! (our goal was to read all the books on the list that we hadn't read yet, just the required count).

My younger kid did suffer in this also. But it was part of the routine, less when the routine got broken (which was a lot this summer)

I wanted to practice cursive, but that didn't happen. I hate the fact that the kids don't "write" anymore. It was mainly math and reading comprehension worksheets.

[Anonymous]

For elementary-aged kids it is best to read daily, and to discuss the re4ading. Also try to do some real-life math when the opportunity arises. Worksheets are boring and useless.