Surviving Summer School

We love to enjoy barbeques, vacations, and swimming pools in the Summer. But for teachers and students around the country, summer is also time for something else: more school.

Summer school can be a challenge for the best teachers. How can you keep your students engaged and excited during summer school? We've got three new activities to help the hours fly by.

Vacab Beach Ball toss

Materials: inflatable beach ball, permanent marker, list of vocabulary words

Instructions: Toss around a beach ball and practice vocabulary while you're at it. To prepare, inflate the beach ball and write vocabulary words all over it with the permanent marker. Then in class, have students sit in their desks or form a circle on the ground. Toss the beach ball around the class. Whoever catches the ball finds the word closest to their right thumb, for instance, and has to define it or use it in a sentence.

Example: Need a list of words? Try using the Imagine Learning sight words from the Level 2 Supplemental Guide. If you're not familiar with the Supplemental Guide, click here to learn more about Imagine Learning.

Summer Reading Show-and-Tell

What you need: Objects students bring in from home and books to read

Instructions: Summer reading can be such an important and fun part of class. To encourage your students to read and share what they read in a fun way, have them choose any book from the library and read it at home. Then, to share with the class, assign students to bring in a creative show-and-tell object that relates to the book.

Example: Tell students to bring in an object that might be found in the main character's trash can, something that represents the main character well, or something the main character would like to find.

Letter Scavenger Hunts

What you need: Printouts of each letter of the alphabet, and other small objects for the students to find.

How to do it: Set up a letter scavenger hunt to help practice letters in a fun way. Print off each letter and hang the printouts up around the classroom. Then divide the class into teams or let them go individually to search for things that begin with each letter. You can work on a letter a day together as a class or assign a letter to each team. You could even make it a month-long activity and set up baskets to collect items that start with each letter.

For example: Have your students collect items to bring to the scavanger hunt. Or if students need a break during the day, strategically place some small items around the room for them to find - safety pins for S, pennies for P, buttons for B.

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