Avoid the Summer Slide

Reading:

SYNC is a audiobook program for teens 13+. Sign up and listen to many titles for free between May 5th and August 17th

PBSkids.org offers lots of interactive games for young learners

ABCya.com has reading activities for students in grades K-5

Funbrain.com reads stories of various levels out loud and has activities to play as well

National Geographic has wonderful, colorful stories and games

Writing:

Get a Pen Pal!  The International Pen Friends website allows you to sign up to get pen pals from around the world!

A wonderful list of writing prompts for rainy days and creative writers

Math:

The great activity to do that involves math is cooking!  Go to the local farmer’s market and whip up something in the kitchen for dinner - real life skill!

Plan a trip - Use google maps to plan a day trip.  Calculating distances is another real life skill!

Cool Math Games - tons of logic, math and skills games - all FREE

Hooda Math - free math games for all ages K-12.  

iXL - fee attached to this, but links to common core for students in grades K - 8. (math and ELA)

Virtual Field Trips:

Global Trek

Hershey’s Factory, Hershey PA

Museum of Natural History

Cities of the World

Incentives:

Barnes and Noble offers students a free book if they track what they read throughout the summer

Chuck E Cheese - Read 2 weeks and get 10 free tokens!

Half Price Books - Read 300 minutes in June and July and get a $5 voucher for books each month.

Check out your local public library- most offer summer incentive programs including free bikes, baseball games and food!

AND just for fun….FREE BOWLING!  

Would love to have others share their resources!!!