This page offers ideas of activities for young homeschoolers : how to increase their vocabulary, make them learn number by memorising friends’ phone numbers and using the phone, learn shapes while making sandwiches, or practice reading on cereal boxes and othe familiar objects, encourage reflexion, guessing ,deducing, and explaining how they proceeded. All these ides for pre-reading native speakers can easily be transfered to the language class for older pupils….and make language learning real fun! and, funnily enough….those pages also appear on the official US National Education site…under the signature of the Secretary of State….;(
http://atozteacherstuff.com/printables/summer_learningK-3.pdf
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Recipes/reck-3.html
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Recipes/rec4-5.html