An At-Home Summer Math Camp to Do with Your Kids

Summer camp and other activities for kids can be really expensive, but just letting kids go feral for the summer months isn’t really recommended, either, for the sake of your sanity and furniture, not to mention their future academic success.

While we might not want to full-on homeschool while the kids are out of school, it’s a great idea to work in a little playful learning to keep their skills up. Which is why this DIY math camp from What Do We Do All Day? is so fantastic.

She has it broken down into activities you can do over the course of six weeks, covering everything from counting to simple math, shapes, patterns and fractions to fun math games. There are printables, craft ideas, even a snack.

Pick out the projects you want to do with your kids or do the whole series.

She also has an eight-week science camp, which has 16 ideas for projects and activities. Definitely enough to keep your kids busy for many days.

How do you keep kids entertained and learning during the summer? I’d love to hear your ideas.

[Photo: What Do We Do All Day?]

Looking for more resources? Check out these board games for learning Math and Multiplication?

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I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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