Summer Learning Made Fun: A Parent’s Guide to Boom Cards for Skill Retention
Ready to make summer learning fun? If you’re a parent with school-age children, I’m sure you’ve heard about “the summer slide”. You can ease that slide with my Parent’s Guide to Boom Cards for Skill Retention. It’s bound to happen to some degree. However, by keeping your soon-to-be first graders or second graders’ skills sharp over the summer, they will be more prepared for the new school year! I’m a first-grade teacher and a mom. I know exactly what kind of activities our little learners enjoy during their summer break. I’m sharing how Boom Cards can make summer learning fun!
A Parent’s Guide to Boom Cards
If you haven’t heard about Boom Cards, that’s okay! This Boom Card Guide for Parents will tell you everything you need to know. If you’re already familiar with these amazing digital task cards, keep reading. You’ll find out how they can be used to continue important skill practice over the summer!
Summer Learning Boom Cards for Incoming First Graders
If you have an incoming first grader, you’ll want them to continue to practice many of the early reading skills they learned in kindergarten. Activities to practice spelling CVC words, counting to 20, rhyming, and identifying syllables are just a few of the skills that they will continue to build on next year. The great thing about Boom Cards is that they are gamified task cards. Students don’t even feel like they’re learning!
The Summer Boom Card Bundle is full of Kindergarten skills and would be a great review for your child.
Boom Cards for Soon-to-be Second Graders
Incoming second graders will be reviewing skills like vowel teams, fact fluency, and place value. This Summer set of Boom Cards has six decks of skills for your child to practice over the summer break. This will help them prepare for second grade!
Interested in more review for your soon-to-be second grader? This Ultimate Spelling and Math Boom Card bundles cover every spelling skill and math topic that’s taught in first grade, making it the ultimate summer review activity.
Grab a Free Deck and Get Started!
Want to try a deck out for yourself? Fill out the information below to get a free deck of math Boom Cards that is perfect for your almost second-grader!
Once you start with these, you’ll be just as hooked as I am! Be sure to check out all the fun decks I have in my TPT Shop. I designed these tried and true activities for maximum engagement and fun!
Still have questions about Boom Cards? Hop on over to my Boom Cards FAQ post for even more details on how to start! Do you want to know more about the Summer Slide and how to prevent it? Here are 5 ways to Stop the Summer Slide.
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