Summer Enrichment

🔢 Daily Practice

• Workbooks like Summer Bridge, Spectrum Math, or Evan-Moor.

• Online platforms: Prodigy,  Khan Academy, IXL

🎲 Games

• Card and Dice games

• Board Games (Yahtzee, Monopoly, etc.)

📜Real Life Math:

• Cooking: measuring, fractions, conversions

• Shopping: deals, calculating, estimating

• Travel: distance, time, gas

🌐Online Activities

Greg Tang Math -- Summer Challenge

Math Olympiads - Problem of the Week

📖 Daily Practice

Encourage your child to read a mix of:

• Fiction (adventure, fantasy, mystery)

• Nonfiction (biographies, science, history)

• Graphic novels, magazines, or newspapers for kids

• Check out the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library summer reading program!

✍️ Writing

Journal Prompts: Daily or weekly reflections, “a letter to future me,” or vacation memories, etc.

Creative Writing: Write a short story, comic strip, or poem.

Lists: Top 10 favorite books, places to visit, silly superpowers, etc.

Book Reviews: Rate and review the books they’ve read.

💬 Boost Vocabulary & Conversation

• Choose a “word of the day” and use it in a sentence.

• Play word games like Boggle, Scrabble, or Wordle.

• Discuss books and stories: “What was your favorite part? How would you change the ending?”

📋 Mensa for Kids' Excellence in Reading Pogram (click here)

Puzzles

Logic puzzles

Soduko

Chess

Checkers

Clue

💡 Create & Innovate

• Build something from recycled materials.

• Write a mystery or riddle for someone else to solve.

• Design a city, theme park, or new invention—complete with rules and functions.
  
  

🗣️ Kid-Friendly Debates

• Should video games count as a sport? 

• Should sugary drinks be allowed at school? 

• Should schools go all year with more frequent breaks? 

• Should kids be allowed to vote in elections? 

• Would You Rather…? 

• "Change My Mind." one person gets a silly opinion ("Pineapple belongs on pizza!") and lets others try to respectfully change their mind with logic and examples.