summer fun

Don’t let your kids lose their hard-won reading skills! Summer break is a time for bike rides, popsicles, and lazy mornings—but if reading isn’t also part of summer, your child can lose valuable skills. This fun and flexible Summer Reading …

Get ready for an out-of-this-world learning adventure! Studying the moon is a great way to spark curiosity and imagination in elementary students. From sharing lunar phases with cookies to exploring famous moon landmarks like the Sea of Tranquility with binoculars, …

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Making a family day trip to a museum, farm, or anywhere can create a day that is both both fun and educational for your child. With a little preparation, you can turn these outings into fun AND enriching experiences that …

Believe it—summer is around the corner.  Woo-hoo! Around the corner!  As in like just a few weeks away!  It’s May! Pools open in May. Weather warms in May.  Swim team registration starts in May.  We buy bathing suits in May. …

How to make fluffy slime and get your kids reading! | make floam slime | make glitter slime | make galaxy slime | slime flops | slime video | teachmama.com

July 4th is almost here!! We’re thrilled to get into the kitchen and make one of our most favorite holiday treats ever–our July 4th flag cake! But along with baking one of our favorite sweets, we’ve also thrown in some …

soap experiments: easy backyard summer fun teachmama.com

birdwatching math puzzles: super challenging and tricky | teachmama.com

fun summertime learning for kids: tabletop surprises

matchstick math: patterns, puzzles and critical thinking | teachmama.com

summer reading goals & reading logs: quick and easy

cool activities for kids all summer long: NEW tabletop surprises | teachmama.com free 10-week calendar of activities your kids will LOVE

We’re week three into our tabletop surprises, and this week, we rocked some sneaky math, literacy, and creative thinking. The kids woke up to some easy activities and ones that required more thinking—and two that required more movement. Sign language …

    Summer is kicking us hard over here. Actually, swim and dive are kicking us hard over here, like always.  And at five weeks in, between meets, practices, relays, pep rallies, and team events, our family has run a …

Summer is almost in full swing, and for our family, there’s no better way to begin our summer fun than with a Summer Reading Kick-Off Party! Each year, we invite a few friends over and turn it into an easy …

The school year is slowly winding down, and finally (finally!) we’re settling into our summertime schedule–not the spring-summer overlap that has had me near crazy for the last two weeks. With the soccer season officially over, three days of dance …

This year we didn’t ring in the 4th with our annual July 4th party, and that’s okay. Baby showers, weddings, beach trips, and day trips, have been keeping us busy, so Independence Day was upon us before we knew it. …