Summer Math Calendars

Pardon my blog's dust...I tried messing with some html and lost my header. Doh! I'm hoping to get a nice new template soon though.

First of all, let me just shout this from the rooftop real quick...

OK, back to business.

We've all heard that kids who do absolutely no skill work over the summer can sometimes lose up to 6 months of learning. Super Yikes! I'm sure we've also noticed that this really happens to some kiddos. Our librarian always puts together a great summer reading list for kids in our school and the public library also has some great reading programs and incentives to keep kids noses in books. This year I even have some of my own ideas about keeping my class excited about reading this summer (more to come on that in a later post).

I asked myself this question as I was thinking about summer learning opportunities for my kids. There are no easy solutions for keeping our kids engaged in math over the summer unless their parents actively include them in household financial planning, building backyard gardens, etc. Not all kids will have these rich opportunities to use authentic math, so I created a calendar for June and July which provides a quick math activity or skill to practice for each day of the month. I wanted to provide some buy in for my kids as well so I told them that if they got a parent signature anywhere on the calendar(s)  they could come visit me in the Fall with their signed calendar(s) for a special back to school smarty pants surprise.

These calendars were created to maintain basic 3rd grade skills but they may work for high 2nd graders as well. The font looks small here but it is really a normal size.


Only a few more weeks until summer! We can do it!