Summer Learning Opportunities

Camp Wonderopolis

One of the most highly regarded digital summer camps on the planet that is completely free. Parents and children will find a wide variety of fun and engaging summer camp activities to take part in when they dive headfirst into Camp Wonderopolis. Some of these activities revolve around STEM field careers, others are designed to boost literacy and comprehension, and others still are designed to help foster improve critical thinking and creativity in young minds. Best of all, after downloading the free Camp Kits you and your campers can go at your own pace to take full advantage of all that this unique digital summer camp has to offer. 

Camp Google

Google offers a four week interactive summer camp at absolutely no cost. Offering some of the highest quality educational content, Google partners with other giants like NASA, Khan Academy, National Geographic and NPS to create fun and engaging content for children and teenagers. The summer camp learning activities explores things like the ocean, space, nature and music. Although it's official start date is July 13th, kids can still watch last years educational videos and activities. 

Varsity Tutors Virtual Camp

Varsity tutors offers week long interactive summer camps to keep your child's mind active. They have quite a few options so depending on your child's interest it's easy to find something suitable for them. Some of the virtual camp themes they offer are art, lego, detective and fairy tales. Your child can work with campers all across the world and open their mind to new things. Taught by professional instructors and with a focus on encouraging your child to try new things, this virtual summer camp is a great choice for any K-12 student. 

Makers Summer Camp

Makers Summer Camp focuses on hands on learning for children. It's project focused where your child builds things based on their interests. With a focus on science, technology, and art it brings multiple disciplines together. Your child receives daily potential activities they may like ranging from creating slime to building unique art portraits. 

ACT Academy

More Reading Challenges & Resources

Summer Reading Program at Your Public Library - Library Directory

Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge

Sync Audiobooks

Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program

One middle school in Billings used EdReady for Summer Math.  Here's what Joe Halligan said about their summer program, "As we wrapped up our first year of operation last spring, one of the things that we wanted to try to ensure for our students, was continued exposure to mathematics content.  Summer is always a tough time to keep kids plugged in, but the EdReady program made it very simple, and allowed students to work at their own pace on skills that would better prepare them for the coming school year.  At Ben Steele, we took advantage of the readiness checklists that were already set up in the EdReady program.  Over a hundred students accessed the program during the months of June, July and August, completing and mastering hundreds of learning objectives that would help them tackle their new curriculum.  Those students who successfully completed their programing during the summer months were rewarded with gift cards in fall - the incentive system was a big hit.  This summer, we plan to continue our work with EdReady, and invite students and parents to partner with us in an effort to minimize the math regression that happens each summer."

Take a look at the video below to learn more about EdReady.

More Summer Math Resources

Math Story Time (ages 5-8)

Math Before Bed

US Census - Statistics in Schools (Emails with ideas & activities)

Motion Math Games (Cell phone apps)