Summer Learning Activities with ABCmouse
See how ABCmouse keeps kids learning all summer long with games, activities, and lessons.
Summer is filled with new adventures and a focus on play and exploration. Keep the emphasis on fun even when it comes to learning this summer, adding in game-based educational activities that children can do on their own. This can help prevent the notorious “summer slide,” which refers to the learning loss (especially in reading and math) that can occur without a few months of instructional time.
Prevent summer slide
Researchers found that children who engaged with ABCmouse over the summer, completing at least 208 learning activities, demonstrated significant gains, showing progress equivalent to one month of instructional time.
Keep Kids Learning This Summer
Each day of learning with ABCmouse brings more lessons, activities, and games to try. Kids can follow their personalized learning path, choose what they’d like to learn, explore within the safety of the app, or follow a list of activities planned by an adult.
Kids can enjoys activities like:
- Hundreds of educational games
- Over 400 digital books
- Online puzzles
- Catchy songs and engaging lessons
- Printable worksheets and coloring pages
While kids enjoy the games, lessons, books, and more, they also love the fun, motivating reward system, engaging with their adopted pets or the classroom aquarium, and exploring the town center, farm, or zoo.
A Day of Summer Learning with ABCmouse
ABCmouse is expertly designed for children ages 2–8, and the app provides hundreds of activities, books, games, songs, puzzles, worksheets, and more for each grade level.
The following lists provide examples of what a day of summer learning looks like for a kindergartener using ABCmouse, but preschoolers and first and second graders will find the same variety of activities.
Summer Learning Games for Kindergarteners
Here are a few examples of the hundreds of educational games your child can experience while learning with ABCmouse this summer:
Practice reading, spelling, and writing high-frequency words with a fun rainbow tracing activity! This game helps kids recognize sight words, build fine motor skills, and strengthen early literacy.
Black, White, and Brown Bubble Blaster
Blast the bubbles that are black, white, or brown! This quick and exciting game helps kids sharpen their color recognition skills through playful practice.
Kids can practice their counting skills in this math game, identifying which leaf has a different number of water drops on it before feeding it to the baby dinosaur.
In this more advanced game, kids work on vocabulary, reading, and the concept of similarities and differences while learning about Carla’s friends from around the country.
So much to do this summer with ABCmouse!
The app includes a classroom filled with learning activities and games, a motivating reward system, and so much more for your child to enjoy. While using the app, kids can
- Spend their earned tickets at the Shopping Center
- Decorate their bedroom
- Change the look of their avatar
- Watch a short song or video in the Movie Theater
- Learn about animals at the Farm or Zoo
- Care for their aquarium or adopted pet
Go to the shopping center
Adopt a pet
See what’s playing at the movie theater
Explore the farm
Care for your aquarium
Visit the zoo
Songs and Lessons for Kindergarteners
Fill summer learning with fun songs and videos to help keep kids engaged with learning. The ABCmouse app is loaded with videos and songs designed to teach and entertain.
Explore the Grand Canyon
This 10-minute video takes children on a journey to the Grand Canyon, sharing facts while ABC and 123 lead them on an adventure!
Letter A Song
Discover songs for every letter of the alphabet, focusing on each letter’s name and sounds. Each songs is perfect for dancing and singing along.
Fly with Me Song
Kids can learn about animals and insects that fly while singing and dancing along with this songs that’s sure to be a favorite.
Learn the Days of the Week
Children practice with the days of the week and learning that a week includes seven days in this catchy tune.
Summer Reading for Kindergarteners
Your ABCmouse subscription provides access to over 400 digital books, including read aloud books for nonreaders, read along books for children developing literacy skills, and leveled readers for children reading independently.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Kids can sit in as Miracle reads this classic fable aloud with help from her robot friend.
Read Along Books
Children can pick from a library of books and follow along as they’re read aloud. This example, titled Dan and Jan, uses rhyming to help children learn sound patterns in words.
Pick from Categories or Search the Library
Select books based on topics your child enjoys or search the library for specific titles. You can also focus on specific topics, like the alphabet.
Visit the Library
The ABCmouse library is always waiting for your child, filled with books for them to enjoy anytime!
Get more reading resources…
Reading Lists
Pick from books outside of the app with our Summer Reading List for Kids and Best Books for Kindergartners.
Printable Activities for Kindergarteners
Along with hundreds of online learning games, educational songs and videos, and digital books, your child can also enjoy free printable worksheets and coloring pages.
From numbers to shapes and so much more, the ABCmouse app features loads of math worksheets for children in preschool through second grade.
Kindergarten Word Family Worksheets
Practice with CVC words as each worksheet features a family of words that start with a consonant and end with the same two letters (such as -en or -ig).
Learn the names of each type of coin and start learning their value with this collection of printables.
More summer worksheets for kids…
These worksheets provide a great way to keep kids learning over the summer and organized for kids in preschool through second grade.
How Much Time Does My Child Need to Spend Learning this Summer?
ABCmouse fits easily into your daily routine and can help your child learn in just 15 minutes a day. Use it during quiet time, after meals, or as part of a morning learning session.
Kids can explore the app independently, or you can sit with them to introduce new concepts, then follow up with hands-on activities that reinforce what they’ve learned. However you choose to use it, ABCmouse makes learning simple and flexible.
