My son is 6 and i need some help with this summer to keep him up in school next year?

Question

My son is 6 and i need some help with this summer to keep him up in school next year?

Answer 1

If he is starting to learn to read buy some easy reader books or get some alphabet magnet letters and try spelling words on your refrigerator and see if he can pronounce them. Teach him some addition and subtraction but start with only numbers 1-10 or if you think he's ready 1-20. Get a white board to write them on and help him figure the math problems out. The best thing to do is to help them with math and reading that way next year they will be able to better learn what the teacher is teaching them. If you don't have time to do this you could take him to Sylvan or hire a teenager to help him through pronouncing the words in books and solving simple addition and subtraction problems. Also you might be able to find books with math problems already in them and you can help him through them.

Answer 2

Help him with his school work next year, and stay in contact with his teachers.

Answer 3

Good for you!

On average, children lose 3 months of learning over the summer.

Check out this website for activities to do with your child.  Pick the ones he needs the most support with.

Most of all, make it fun.

Be well.

Answer 4

take him to your church for a VBS (vacation bible school)

Answer 5

I teach kindergarten and the most important thing is to get your child's imagination working. The easiest way is to give them paper(kids love things like journals), crayons  and pencils. Encourage your child to draw pictures and write a story about their pictures. This helps boost your child's writing, reading and creativity skills and doesn't require any drilling or stress.

Answer 6

Little kids (especially boys) do not  need to keep up with their academics so much as their physical development. Summertime should be a time for exploration and playing and NOT sitting and drilling him on his sight words. Discovering a bug in the grass or hosing off the dog or running through a sprinkler or building a sand castle teaches about cause and effect and physics through EXPERIENCE rather than sitting at the kitchen table in endless drills.

Picking out his own books from the library is fun -- at this age it will require you to read TO him -- and you can share some of your favorite books from childhood too.

Having friends over or going to their houses will teach social skills and rules of games and getting along with others as will playing with his siblings or cousins if he has any.

Bake with him when it is not too hot. My five year old can measure a cup of flour and roll dough in cinnamon sugar and add teaspoons and tablespoons of things that I hand to him. This will teach him math and measuring skills and simple common sense. You can get frozen loaves of bread from the store for about $0.75 each. Follow the instructions. Let it thaw and rise overnight so he wakes up to a HUGE loaf of bread.

Then punch it down and take a rolling pin to it to make a (more or less) rectangle on a baking sheet. He can help add spaghetti sauce (or pizza sauce if you prefer) and cheese and whatever other toppings and then of course bake it up for lunch. This will teach him about nutrition and also cause and effect and trust me -- when he wakes up to the huge risen loaf of bread his eyes will get wide!

Get a net and chase butterflies together.

Teach him to climb a tree.

Get the book The Dangerous Book for Boys (no the stuff is NOT dangerous) and teach him some useful tricks. Knowing cool things will boost his confidence and social skills.

Take him to a museum or art gallery - not with an agenda -- but to look around. Ask him what he notices about the pictures or sculptures.

Teach him if he does not know already to tie his shoes and button/snap/zip his pants and dress himself and start giving him more independence (with instruction) in the bath. When I was six my mother would let me get wet in the shower then she would apply the shampoo to my hair and after that I was perfectly fine washing my hair and body and rinsing off afterward.

Teach him to make popcorn the real way in a pan with oil. No he will not be able to use the stove by himself for a year or two (please no thumbs down on this one -- if you teach your children common sense they can use a stove for simple things when they are seven or eight. Mine can) and let him watch the popcorn pop up.

I would really encourage you to not sit him down and drill him with workbooks and flash cards. He will get plenty of that at school. He will learn so much more about life from experiencing it.

Answer 7

The public libraries usually have fun summer programs as do Barnes and Nobles book stores.  We have a wonderful Children's Museum in San Antonio that is fun and educational.  I agree that during the summer you don't have to focus "drilling" children but I do think they still need to be exposed to educational activities.

Answer 8

http://www.starfall.com

http://www.kidsknowit.com/

http://www.learn4good.com/kids/index.htm

Here are a few sites that he can play for free... Star fall is the best...

Answer 9

Check into your local library and see if they have a summer reading program. The one at our library awards small prizes for kids reading a certain amount of time this summer. Do you have a discovery center or something equivalent near by, this seems to spark my daughters imagination and we learn about new stuff every time we go there. Good luck:)