Do your kids do homework over summer break?

I think as long as 1. it's fun for her and 2. it was HER choice to do it - that it's okay.

I got a few of those for my daughter because she wanted them, and I let her do them if she wanted to, but I didn't ask or expect it. I think the problem with some parents is they make it almost like homework, and they have their kids do them even if they are not interested. I think THAT type of attitude is wrong. I think it's important to help foster learning and good skills but it has to be fun or people won't want to do it. I can certainly think of other ways to keep skills fresh and to learn new things without doing busywork. Concepts can be taught, cemented, and shared in many other ways.

For instance, if you want to teach about patterns, look for patterns in real life, in words, signs, architecture, music. If you want to teach about counting, numbers, money, etc, give your child a certain amount of money and ask them to pick out some things to buy on a list but make sure they have enough money to buy them, or figure out how to problem solve by exchanging an item they can't afford with something they can. I think those are much better than putting things in order on a work sheet or adding numbers. It lends a real world aspect to the picture and helps show your child why we have to learn the things we do. There's a purpose that they can see.

In the future, if my daughter is interested, I'll let her. I have sight word flash cards and we do things like that too... online, but only based on her patience. When she's done, she's done.

I do the same type thing with my kids during the summer. I have been told by kids teachers that during school work in the summer keeps them fresh. It doesn't mean we get up and play school from 8 to 3 like real school but we will do little things like quizzes as we talk an evening walk or having dinner. My daughter brings home her used work books or old papers and we used them to play school and she really enjoys that, it teaches her while she is also having fun doing it. We have flash cards that I made up just with a marker and some construction paper. She really enjoys using them. I usually end up being the student along with our dog but she still learns by being the teacher.