Fun Multi-sensory Whole Child Summer Activities
Our main objectives this summer –
KEEP THEM READING and KEEP THEIR SKILLS STRONG!
What fun new books have your children discovered? Have they found a new book series with the same main characters? Are they identifying with those main characters?
Please take a moment to drop me an email about your favorite new books and the fun summer programs or activities that have been meeting our objectives of keeping them reading and keeping their skills strong. Let’s share ideas and help each other.
Here are a few more activities to keep children’s skills strong:
1. Skits or plays use every one of their skills in reading, writing and spelling.
· Write skits or plays together. As you are writing a skit or a play with them, discuss characters, character development and setting to help them create believable characters and action. Have them write out the script either by hand or on a computer.
· Next do auditions for the parts, as this is ALWAYS fun. Film the tryouts, watch each other and have fun positively critiquing each other.
· Together create scenery by researching the environment needed to make the scenery fit the play or the skit.
· During practice, help them memorize their parts and make their portrayal believable.
· Have them design invitations for the performance and send them out via hand-written cards, emails or texts.
· Enjoy THE BIG EVENT—performing for family, friends and neighbors.
· Lastly, review the performance with them by asking questions that encourage them to stretch their creativity.
2. Review with your children topics they studied last year in science and social studies.
· Explore each subject further to extend their learning using the Internet, books or magazines.
· Write, draw, and/or paint about how this new information and knowledge has changed their thoughts or ideas about their previously studied subjects.
· This expanded focus on subjects from last school year will keep their knowledge fresh and prepare them for the coming year.
3. Explore locations that your children might want to visit and locations that are on your bucket list.
· Research these locations on the Internet and at your local library.
· Together draw, paint, or build projects that portray these places in art form.
· Write about what all of you learned in your exploration that either excites you even more to travel to these places or has you thinking about taking it off your bucket list.
· Share your projects with other members of your family who might want to join you on an adventure.
If you have further questions about summer activities, feel free to contact us.