There was a study yesterday on the radio that stated that over summer vacation students can lose up to 60% of what they learned the previous year. I learned that from experience this past fall with Laura. It felt like starting over. She'd lost a lot of what we studied in third grade in just the short time of summer before fourth grade started.
I bought a Developmental Mathematics workbook from Christian Book. I was looking for something that would take Laura step by step though concepts. This program was recommended in a review. It's affordable. We'll use it over the summer and see if it helps Laura or not. At the very least it will help her to keep her skills stable and maybe building. The last thing I want is for fall to come around and Laura to have lost 60% of the math skills she's worked so hard to gain.
We've only done the workbook for a day. I started a little easy with Laura, so she finished ten pages in the thirty minutes she worked. However, it gets more challenging further into the book.
Today begins the summer library program. We'll begin reading today with whatever book Laura picks out for Accelerated Reader. My step daughter comes to stay with us for the summer in a couple weeks. We're going to read some of the Chronicles of Narnia when she gets here. We are going to read it as a family... at least with the younger kids. It's the first time that we've ever done something like that. My husband has read bible stories to the kids periodically, but we've never used fiction. I am excited. I've wanted to do something like this for awhile, but don't have my step-daughter here enough throughout the school year to get much accomplished.
Megan gets to start the library program too. She will go to her first story time today. I am going with her. I love things like this. Any activity that might help instill a love of reading is something I am glad to have my girls participate.
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