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It’s that time of year where we all start thinking ahead to the warm Summer months.
The swimming, the cookouts, and the days spent with friends are always welcome.
The downside, however, is the learning loss, also known as the Summer slide, that can come along with those.
But while the break and the relaxation are necessary, accepting that your child will just lose several months of learning is not.
Keeping the skills that they’ve recently learned sharp is not only important for the next school year, but for building the foundation that they’ll need throughout their education as well.
Getting your child to practice things like math skills through their Summer break though, can be difficult unless you find a way to make it fun.
Fortunately, with digital activities, like this Summer picnic addition activity, it’s not really that hard!
Learning Basic Addition
Moving from counting and sorting to basic addition is a big deal for a lot of kids.
It’s their first real step into bigger kid math and while many of them are excited about this progression, some are a little more apprehensive.
Now, as with any new skill, one of the most important things that you can do to help them is instill and boost their confidence.
The easiest way to do that, of course, is through practice.
And if you can make that practice fun? That’s even better! (Especially during the Summer!)
Digital Summer Addition Practice
If there’s one thing that this digital Summer picnic addition activity does, it’s make math practice fun!
Kids love using technology in their school work and this set of digital activities allows them to work on basic addition to 10 at the same time!
Available on all three major digital platforms – Boom Learning, Google Slides, and Seesaw – your students will need to solve the addition problem on each slide in order to feed the correct slice of watermelon to each of the children at the picnic.
On both Boom Learning and Google Slides, they’ll simply click on the watermelon that they choose.
Both of these platforms are self-checking and will instantly let them know whether their answer was correct or not.
On Seesaw, they’ll simply drag the correct slice of watermelon to the child.
All three platforms will give them the opportunity to not only practice 15 basic addition problems but also stop that Summer slide in its tracks!
