What to do over summer break?

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DD7 had a fantastic year 2 and worked extremely hard. She missed about 1 day in total and achieved working towards age expected on her report (but top marks for effort!).

This matters because she had some ill health that caused her to miss a lot of year 1.

Now summer is here she is having a lovely time and not doing any reading or anything school work related at all.

Should I just wait for her to ask or should I introduce a bit of reading / writing?

I'm happy for her to just have the whole summer off as she's very motivated re school. But I also don't want to let her down.

Any year2/ 3 teachers with thoughts?

I would do some maths and reading as for eg in dd school many kids are already free readers by y3.

Make a diary with her. Get any cheap notebook and stick in photos, tickets, leaflets, postcards from anywhere you go and aim to write one sentence most days with capital letter, full stop and finger spaces. This will be a little writing and a fun project to keep her writing ticking over. I did this with my ds when he was this age and he is a teen now. He found it a few months ago and loved reading through and remembering.

Get to your local library and sign up for the summer reading project. She will get a chart with lots of colourful pictures on it. Each time she reads two books she gets stickers and once she has read any 6 books she gets a certificate and a medal.

Work on her mental maths by playing cards, darts, number games etc.

Read lots of books to her.

I am a y2 teacher btw.

Year 3 teacher here - read, read, read. Read to her, read with her, make it fun - choose some lovely library, new or second hand books, read recipes and magazines. Listen to audio books while you chill in the garden. If you feel like it to keep her maths skills up, focus on instant recall facts (like number bonds and 2s, 5s and 10s) and play games with them like treasure hunts etc. Look at thefiveminutemum on Instagram for some good ideas. Not like sitting down for an hour every day but just keep it little and often and fun.

DH took DS to the library today they're doing a summer reading challenge, DS seems excited about it and he gets to choose his books (unlike the school phonics scheme) , we're also doing a scrap book but only one sentence for each day with something in it, so if we have a day at home and he doesn't want to in not going to push it, he wanted to do one today because he had an ice cream 😂 . He's still spelling largely phonetically but he's only just finished reception. I don't want him to get completely out of practice over the summer

I would second keeping a diary/scrapbook plus a bit of bedtime reading.

Does your library do the summer reading challenge? That’s the recommended summer activity for primary usually.

Something like reading eggs or maths seeds.

We usually do the library reading challenge and keep a scrapbook diary. DS doesn't really think of it as school work, but it keeps the skills ticking over.

We carry on with reading by every night through the summer and also dc keeps a scrap book and enters a few lines about every day

Thanks all!

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Good website for primary aged kids to increase their knowledge.