Anonymous wrote:Op here - my kids do play a ton. They are in camp and have play dates with their friends on the weekends. The only reason I am doing this is because my rising 3rd grader seemed to back slide a ton between 1st and 2nd grade. I want her to keep her reading skills up and also her math skills.

The typing is purely because I think everyone should learn to type well. My mom made me learn around 3rd grade and I am a very good Tyler (around 110 WPM).

It's not impressive to type fast if you can't type accurately.

Anonymous wrote:Op here - my kids do play a ton. They are in camp and have play dates with their friends on the weekends. The only reason I am doing this is because my rising 3rd grader seemed to back slide a ton between 1st and 2nd grade. I want her to keep her reading skills up and also her math skills.

The typing is purely because I think everyone should learn to type well. My mom made me learn around 3rd grade and I am a very good Tyler (around 110 WPM).

That's an excellent typo.

Op here - my kids do play a ton. They are in camp and have play dates with their friends on the weekends. The only reason I am doing this is because my rising 3rd grader seemed to back slide a ton between 1st and 2nd grade. I want her to keep her reading skills up and also her math skills.

The typing is purely because I think everyone should learn to type well. My mom made me learn around 3rd grade and I am a very good Tyler (around 110 WPM).

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like a terrible idea if the parents are forcing it on their kids. I'm all for encouraging children to learn on their own, but why force it on your kids?

Especially because at these ages kids learn through play

Um my rising 4th and 8th graders are just reading. I’m a teacher.

I give my rising second grader a few math problems every morning. I haven't needed to tell her to read since she learned, so I let her handle that. Periodically I quiz her on Greek mythology, but mostly because she likes that.

Reading, that’s it.

None. My kids are playing.

Anonymous wrote:I have a rising 1st and 3rd grader. I am making them do at least 30 minutes of math, English/reading or typing classes each day. Do you think that’s enough so they don’t lose everything they have learned over the summer?

Any recommendations on good online apps? Right now I am using splash learn for math and English curriculum and an online typing class. We also have workbooks to use.

Most elementary kids don't do any summer homework except maybe some reading. Teachers spend a couple of weeks on review work at the beginning of the semester for this reason. Your kids will probably be bored. I'm not saying don't do it, but I wouldn't sweat it if they did a couple of weeks of just having fun this summer...

We (rising 6th & 4th grader) have loose daily "reading time" for chapter books--otherwise the kids will just read graphic novels and other fun crap (which is fine, great even, but hardly keeps up reading skills).

We are having them do some math work 2-3x a week, 6th grader because she'd definitely forget 50% of last year over the summer, and 4th grader because he is fairly motivated and wants to catch up with 6th grader...!

This sounds like a terrible idea if the parents are forcing it on their kids. I'm all for encouraging children to learn on their own, but why force it on your kids?

My 11 year old is doing lots and lots of PE.
Swimming, bike riding, soccer, running…
With some theater thrown in for variety.

Her 16 year old brother on the other hand is attempting to learn the entire year of AP calculus AB from khan academy online, just to say he did it.

Nothing. Just reading. When they were younger and didn’t have mastery of things like reading or basic math facts we did some of those summer bridge workbooks but it wasn’t really necessary and honestly killed some joy and created tension that was unnecessary. They aren’t going to “lose” anything if you just let them play, keep reading to them and keep them engaged in other activities like cooking, gardening, grocery shopping etc that they can use other skills.
My kids are now 8, 11 & 13 and devour books all summer, all are doing duo lingo to learn new languages on their own, asking to take outschool classes, etc. but mostly they’re just enjoying camp, summer and everything else.

Mine do two pages a day out of a summer bridge workbook and are learning a language on Duolingo. Mine like Prodigy for math, and there is also a reading version of Prodigy.

I have a rising 1st and 3rd grader. I am making them do at least 30 minutes of math, English/reading or typing classes each day. Do you think that’s enough so they don’t lose everything they have learned over the summer?

Any recommendations on good online apps? Right now I am using splash learn for math and English curriculum and an online typing class. We also have workbooks to use.