Summer Vacation
1 minK1st2nd3rd4th5thSocial Studies
Summary
Take a break from the school year on summer vacation! Summer is a great time to relax, play, and explore your community... but it wasn't always that way. How do you celebrate your summer vacation?
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Short explainer (1 min) from PBS LearningMedia's *All About the Holidays*.
- Why do American schools take a long break in the summer?
- How was a kid's summer a hundred years ago different from yours?
- What is one thing your community offers kids over the summer?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: vacation, tradition, community, schedule.
Try it: Draw your summer on a four-box timeline -- one box per summer month -- then label the box that is most different from a kid's summer long ago.