Make the Most of Summer: How to Engage Your Kids in Their Summer Work & Stop Summer Learning Loss Part 2: Diving into Summer Learning Make It Fun The next step to lightening the burden of academics in the summer is to become familiar with what is expected of your child for the assigned summer work. Any opportunity you can identify to make the practice of those skills fun will help get it … [Read more...]
PREVENT SUMMER LEARNING LOSS, PART 1
Make the Most of Summer: How to Engage Your Kids in Their Summer Work & Stop Summer Learning Loss By now, you’ve probably heard of “summer slide” or “brain drain," and you don’t want your children to experience summer learning loss. You know your kids need to keep up the skills they’ve learned in school so they don’t lose that knowledge and start the next school year lagging behind. Or, … [Read more...]
Writing Your Own Summer Success Story
Keep Your Brain Engaged While You Have Fun with Summer Writing Everyday writing activities are a great way to avoid summer brain drain and boost higher-level thinking skills. These activities bring together a variety of academic skills that need to be practiced to avoid losing them: Emailing a pen pal Maintaining a reading log Making up new summer recipes Recording the results of … [Read more...]