How much studying is your elementary child doing this summer?

[Anonymous]

It is like pulling teeth getting my 6yo to sit down and study. He is in various camps this summer - science, cooking, art and sports.

[Anonymous]

Zero. She's reading, writing, and drawing, but anything beyond that is not really happening. (Rising 1st grader)

What studying do you mean?

[Anonymous]

My rising first grader is doing 20 minutes of reading a day, and maybe 20 minutes of pother review (mostly practicing Spanish). We also have a bunch of educational apps on the ipad, and I'll often catch hi playing one of those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Zero. She's reading, writing, and drawing, but anything beyond that is not really happening. (Rising 1st grader)

What studying do you mean?

DS is a beginner reader. He likes being read to but hates practicing reading. He gets frustrated that he can't read most of the big words. At the same time, he hates the BOB type books too. It is frustrating for all of us. Considering getting him a reading tutor.

I also have various workbooks that he seems to hate doing. I am not trying to get him to do hours of work, maybe 10-20 minutes per day. He has been legitimately sick a few days but he makes so many excuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is like pulling teeth getting my 6yo to sit down and study. He is in various camps this summer - science, cooking, art and sports.

If the child is involved in all of these activities then why is it necessary for him or her to study as well? Do you study after a long day at work? Would you want to if you attention span was all of 15-20 minutes? Make the learning activities fun and the kid will do it willingly. My mom always provided lot of word games (remember those huge books with crossword puzzles and mazes in them?), a subscription to Highlights magazine, subscriptions to junior series of magazines, and the Sunday paper. All of these are ways to engage learning without it being so rigid. Think outside the box as to how you encourage learning during "free" time. How about a family game of Scrabble once a week (builds spelling and vocabulary skills), Monopoly (Money), Uno (patterns and number recognition), Clue (critical thinking skills), etc. If you want the kids to read have a family reading time. Set aside 30 minutes a day where everyone in the family (including you who models the behavior) are intensive engaged in reading some form of literature then have a conversation about what you read.

[Anonymous]

Three days each week with a tutor. All-day, outdoorsy camp. Second language only on Sundays.

Pre-K and rising 1st.

[Come at me, bro!]

[Anonymous]

A lot. He was struggling this past year at school.

[Anonymous]

Rising 3rd grader. This is the first summer he's had required work -- reading a particular book. So we are doing that nightly.

I also have him do printing practice (5 minutes, 4 times a week) because his handwriting needs some real help. And his teacher says he needs to review two digit subtraction and place value, so we do that a couple of times a week. In August he'll memorize times tables through 6.

Other than the reading, it's not more than about 10 minutes 4-5 nights a week.

At 6, he just did daily reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is like pulling teeth getting my 6yo to sit down and study. He is in various camps this summer - science, cooking, art and sports.

good god. none. Let the poor kid be a kid and have some fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is like pulling teeth getting my 6yo to sit down and study. He is in various camps this summer - science, cooking, art and sports.

good god. none. Let the poor kid be a kid and have some fun.

^^^^This! +10000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rising 3rd grader. This is the first summer he's had required work -- reading a particular book. So we are doing that nightly.

I also have him do printing practice (5 minutes, 4 times a week) because his handwriting needs some real help. And his teacher says he needs to review two digit subtraction and place value, so we do that a couple of times a week. In August he'll memorize times tables through 6.

Other than the reading, it's not more than about 10 minutes 4-5 nights a week.

At 6, he just did daily reading.

This is totally reasonable...especially for an older child.

[Anonymous]

Zip. And they read on their own for pleasure anyways.

[Anonymous]

Reading (20 minutes to self, 20 minutes being read to), 15-30 minutes of either a workbook or an online learning program, 30 minutes of instrument practice.

Plus just whatever writing they do while drawing pictures, etc.

[Anonymous]

Rising 1st grader. He is reading Captain Underpants and Nate the Great books. That is it.

When he returns from his grandparents next week I will have him do his K review work packet and we will also look at the 1st grade review packet to help us see what's in store for 1st.

We do need to practice Spanish more as I think he is just about the only kid from his K class who is not in summer immersion. Allegedly you are only allowed to miss 3 days and I knew he'd need to miss at least 2 weeks for various trips. Oh well. He is 6. Fun is the main thing on our summer agenda.

[Anonymous]

Three kids in elementary and middle. I'm having them work through workbooks that review the math levels they just came from. They all needed the review. I'm attempting to get each of them to read a book but it's like pulling teeth. At this point I'd let them read smut if they wanted to.