Having fun while keeping 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 (silentelephante@gmail.com) about your favorite new books and the fun summer programs or activities that you and they have been enjoying. Let’s share ideas and help each other.
Here are a few more fun activities that keep their skills strong:
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, this is ALWAYS fun. Film the tryouts, watch each other and have fun positively critiquing.
Together create scenery by researching the environment needed for the play or 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.
HAVE FUN AT 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 as they think about their next play or skit.
Reviewing what they studied last year in science and social studies is important and can be really fun.
Explore each subject further to extend their learning using the Internet, books, magazines, and your local library.
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.
Explore locations that your children might want to visit and locations that are on your bucket list.
Research where you might want to go on the Internet and at your local library.
Together draw, paint, or build projects that portray these places in art form. For instance, if Paris is a place you dream about, how can you build a model of the Eifel Tower or Notre Dame?
Write about what 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. This makes for good discussion. 😊
Share your projects with other members of your family who might want to join you on your adventure.
The main point is to HAVE FUN and to KEEP THEIR SKILLS GROWING!
If you have further questions about summer activities, feel free to contact us. Also check out these blog posts at silentelephante.com, Ten Fun Spelling Activities and Summer's Here, Keeping Those Skills Active and Strong for more ideas.
Again, send us any other fun activities you've found successful, and we will get them out to everyone.
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Keep a song in your heart!