Encourage your children to write during the summer. Whether your children are writing letters, postcards, shopping lists, notes, or keeping a journal or diary, they will be practicing their writing skills. Look among your family and friends for suitable summer pen pals. These writing relationships could last all year round and help your children organize their thoughts and communicate them in an effective way. Encourage your children to correspond on the computer if you have E-mail.
Summer is great time to start a hobby.
There are an endless number of hobbies from which your children may choose. Hobbies can include collecting rocks or baseball cards, playing sports, building model cars, etc. Almost any activity can be considered a hobby. Television and movies can be included in summertime learning and leisure. Take an active approach to television viewing.