Free Printable Summer Homework Notebooks
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As a child who also endured the summer workbooks, I must admit I personally retained a rather bitter memory of them, especially the famous "Passeport" and other "Nathan Vacances"—names that haunted children even 20 years ago.
However, now that I have children of my own, I understand the value of these summer workbooks.
But today, why go for branded summer workbooks when you can find free resources?
Today, I offer you an overview of resources to help your child reinforce their skills during the summer holidays, all free of course!
Printable Summer Workbooks
Kindergarten
Editions Rosace offers a very comprehensive and free summer workbook for ages 3 to 6. Very playful and 48 pages long, you will find reading, writing, calculation, and drawing activities, but also practical activities to do with your child, like simple recipes to prepare as a family.
Summer Workbook - Éditions Rosace
Tête à modeler also offers summer activity workbooks for kindergarten. A bit lighter compared to the one from Éditions Rosace, they have the merit of being segmented into 3 levels.
Recommended as a supplement to another summer workbook.
Summer Workbook - Tête à modeler
Elementary School
Hugo l'escargot offers excellent downloadable and printable summer workbooks.
1st Grade – 2nd Grade
2nd Grade – 3rd Grade
3rd Grade – 4th Grade
Summer Workbook - Hugo l'escargot
Tête à modeler also offers a few summer workbooks for elementary school. They compete with those from Hugo l'escargot (for the same levels from 1st to 4th grade).
An Extra Idea
The Ministry of National Education offers a printable summer workbook on Europe.
This can be a great way to introduce your child to European geography and culture. (But needing to print nearly 60 color pages might discourage you.)
Online Summer Workbooks
Several websites and blogs offer free learning resources and activity suggestions for your children.
The Epopia blog offers a plethora of educational worksheets and activity ideas for your child.
Online Summer Exercises - Epopia Blog
An idea to occupy your children during the holidays: learn the soroban.
Another Idea for Learning While Having Fun During the Holidays
Learning the Soroban
Many children have a certain aversion to math, yet it is probably one of the most determining subjects for your child's success.
The Japanese abacus, or soroban, offers an intuitive and fun way to approach mathematics.
Why not introduce your child to this practice? We recommend the Soroban method that we tested here.
Our Review of the Soroban Method
There you go, with these resources you are equipped to occupy your children during the holidays! But be careful, holidays are still holidays! Have a little empathy and don't occupy your children for more than an hour a day. It could even become counterproductive! Try as much as possible to make it fun!
