How much time should my 7 yr old spend studying this summer?

I think academics are important, too, and my two elementary aged kids, like yours, are breezing through school. Summer in our house has a lot of learning but no studying. The kids read a lot (and I read to them; they read a few years above grade level but they can listen to stuff that's even harder than that); they write in their journals and write stories for fun; they go on nature walks and do fun "kitchen science" type experiments; they play board games that inspire thinking (like scrabble, mastermind, chess, cards, etc.); and so on. My husband, whose first language isn't English, is going to set a half hour a day where we only talk in his language, which none of the kids knows yet. We're participating in a charity program where they get sponsors for how many hours they read and the proceeds go to a charity that we support ... and the kids are very motivated to do a lot of reading for fun! But we don't do workbooks, etc. I think summer learning should be fun and inspiring and mostly kid-initiated ... not deskwork. Also keep in mind since your child is doing well in his class that if you work on the same material he'll be learning next year odds are he'll be bored out of his mind at school. Better to teach him something that he won't learn at school. My son who just finished first grade loves doing logic puzzles, for example, which is a great "academic" skill (while also being really fun) but one rarely covered in the classroom....

I think if you insist on him studying over the summer, it should only be once a day, maybe in the morning before he starts everything else, or in the evening after his bath and after he has done everything else- so there is nothing else he'd rather be doing. For a 7 year old, in the summer, it won't be his main proirity, so i think you should do it when he can't be out playing with other kids in the street, so in the eving or early morning each day is a good time to do some sums or punctuation excersises.

Nada. Let your child have fun this summer. Why the big push to be involved in academics. You can teach your child about life, by being involved in life experiences. Ask yourself this: what can you remember of school classes or homework vs life experiences you had with family or friends.

Poor kid... Summertime is about FUN not learning!

Have a time set aside every day. Like the hour after dinner or whatever.

MAKE IT THE SAME TIME EVERYDAY. I WOULD SAY ABOUT AN HOUR. YES, ACADEMICS ARE VERY IMPORTANT. BUT, REMEMBER IT IS STILL SUMMER. I WOULD SAY AN HOUR, MAYBE WHILE YOUR OTHER KIDS ARE NAPPING. THAT WHY THERE ARE NO DISTRACTIONS.

Congrats to him for doing so well! I think maybe two or three times a week, pick two evenly spaced days, say Monday and Thursday. I would say choose one day where he reads his new books and one when he works in his workbooks. If the books are in chapters maybe two chapters per sitting and the workbooks maybe a section per sitting. If he spends longer than 45 mins doing the work, tell him he can go for a 20 minute break and finish it after that. Apparently people can only concentrate fully for around 50 minutes at a time and I imagine it would be a little less for children. I hope he does good in 2nd grade :) You sound like a great parent, I bet all your kids are gonna be really smart.

Id suggest every night after dinner for maybe 30 min? Hes 7 and it is summer so im sure hes really excited but I guess it all depends on his attention span and how eager he is to learn new stuff!!!! Most kids that age want to be doing something other than school b/c its their break from school!!!

Dont make him do much, remember, its called summer VACATION. But I do understand you want him to keep up the good work. I would have him work maybe 15 min maybe twice a week. I think the best way is to have him read over the summer. Every night or every other night after dinner have him read. Not long, but long enough. If hes doing chapter books, then one chapter a night. If not, then read about 20min every night, or close to every night. However, give him about 2 weeks to unwind from school. Dont make him do anything, then after that, have him start again.