Avoid Brain Drain This Summer

Here are a few ways to keep those brain muscles flexed with fun learning exercises.
Try these ideas on summer days when you’re sticking around the house.
1. Get crafty: Adopt a daily craft activity to do as a family every day.
2. Build a treehouse: Combine outside fun with construction by building a backyard treehouse, remembering to discuss measurement (and safety) as you go.
3. Create a lemonade stand: The classic lemonade stand offers many lessons in math and business.
4. Play board games: Board games build thinking skills and are a fun way for kids to play and learn over the summer.
5. Track daily temperatures: Fight the summer slide while tracking the summer heat wave by tracking the temperature each day with your kids.
6. Calculate your family’s emissions: Use the EPA personal emissions calculator to discover your emissions as a family, and discuss how you can improve.
7. Plant a garden: Teach kids about nutrition and growth with a summer garden.
8. Count money when playing Monopoly: A family game time with Monopoly can turn into a math lesson when kids act as the banker.

Warm Up

5 Min AMRAP

5 Wall Ball

100m Run

WOD

As Many Reps As Possible in 4 minutes at each station

5 Minute Break in between to work on a specific skill.

Station 1:
10 Wall Ball (20/14)
10 Sit ups

5 Mins to work on Hollow Rocks

Station 2:
10 Push ups
10 Hollow rocks

5 Mins for Rope Climbs

Station 3:
5 Pull ups (Jumping as MOD)
10 Box jumps (12”)

5 Mins on DB Hang Cleans

Station 4:
10 Mountain climbers (L+R=1)
10 DB Hang power cleans 

5 Mins on Double Unders

Station 5:
10 KB swings (24/16)
10 Single unders