Summer Learning @ The E3 School (Home Too)
  • Cut fruit to make a fruit bowl. 
  • Go on a shape walk. Try to find as many shapes as you can. 
  • Use a cookie sheet and magnetic letters to identify letters and make letter sounds. 
  • Get a piece of yarn and colored buttons. Put each button on the string to make a pattern of colors. Count them too. 
  • Visit the library and find a quiet place to read a book. Then check books out to take home. 
  • Go on a flower, rock or seashell hunt. Find as many as you can. Then sort them by color, shape or size. Talk about the differences you see.
Kids around table at E3 School working on math skills
  • Go on a color walk. Find everything yellow, red, etc. 
  • Start a reading marathon. How many books can you read together in a month? 
  • Try creative writing with one word. Think flowers, city, garden, ocean, etc. 
  • Cut a lemon, dry the inside, dip in paint and make a design on paper, aluminum foil or fabric. 
  • Make popsicles to eat. You can also use popsicles on a white sheet of paper to create a picture. 
  • Take colored chalk and create a masterpiece on the sidewalk. 
  • Use cereal to practice counting, sorting, recognizing shapes and colors.
  • Make a water station filled with things that sink or float. 
  • Build with recycled boxes. 
  • Make a robot out of boxes. 
  • Take plain white paper, crayons, markers or paint to make a picture.
  • Make a rhyme and sing a song.
  • Create a word jar. Write words on a piece of paper, sound out the word and throw it in the jar. Count how many words you add every week. 
Young child using marker on a worksheet at E3 School

    Take time to enjoy summer and always make learning playful and fun! 


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