Just because its summer does not mean that we strop learning at our house! I really hate that we have to spend so much time at the beginning of our school year going over things that may have been lost over the summer, so we keep up with those skills. A few years ago a friend shared with me what she does with her family over the summer to keep them motivated and to help curb the boredom. Its called a Super Star Challenge. It works fabulously!!
The basic concept is that they earn a certain number of stars for doing certain things. There are 5 aspects of it, health, leaning, helping, Spiritual growth, and caring. They have daily and anytime stars that can be earned. For example, under Spiritual growth they earn 5 stars each for Bible reading, devotion and prayer. Under leaning they earn stars for doing math pages, doing something crafty, reading, etc. Under helping and caring they earn stars for helping their siblings or mom and dad with chores around the house. Under health they can earn stars for bathing, brushing their teeth, going to bed on time, etc. Those are daily stars, they can also earn anytime stars in those same categories. Like learning a bible verse, swimming, doing extra chores, and things like that.
The key to this all working is that they have to earn a crazy amount of stars to get their prize at the end of the summer. This summer our total number per kid is 2000 stars, over an 8 week period. Their prize at the end of the summer is a trip to the Legoland Discovery Center. Its a great incentive for them, this is our third summer doing this and each year they get a different reward.
What do you do to keep your kids motivated over the summer?
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