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The countdown has already begun for another school year and yet your summer bucket list has been a total bust! Well, trust me, you are not alone! You must also feel that you’ve accomplished nothing since the school year ended and you are doing nothing to prepare you or your little ones for another to begin, well, I’m here to tell you that yet again you still are not alone! So stop with the mom guilt and get right on track, thanks to TestingMom.com.
Summer is a great opportunity to make learning more fun with apps that add a gaming element to key skills such as addition, subtraction, fractions, and more. These apps let kids avoid the “summer slide” in a fun — and totally painless — way. Which is why I am introducing you to the TestingMom.com and other ways to get your kids brain active.
- The TestingMom is a great resource for summer prep. Have your child work on these free sample questions. Practice questions help strengthen the underlying abilities your child need for school, such as language, memory, information, fine motor skills, spatial and visual skills, math and thinking.
- Get old school. Turn off the technology and have a board game night. We dedicate Friday nights as family game night and love playing Chutes and Ladders or CandyLand. The IQ Fun Pack is wonderful, too! It teaches your child language, knowledge, memory, math, visual-spatial, thinking, and fine-motor skills. Beyond that, your child needs to build pre-reading, listening and focusing skills between ages 3 – 5, as well.
- Head to the library. Not only does the library has a bunch of chapter books but they offer FREE programs catered to enriching your child over summer break.
- Practice math with this tool.
- Challenge the mind with my favorite playing cards
- Go outside! Free, unstructured play is important in building all the abilities kids need to be successful in school and in life. Go to the park with friends and their children and watch creativity, self confidence, team work, negotiation, and more happen before your eyes.
What’s your favorite summer learning tool? Follow me on Instagram and check out my summer shenanigans with my favorite twosome.