During the regular academic school year Stowell Learning Center offers weekly tips for parents to help them make homework a better experience for everyone at home. During the summer they take a break from homework and offer some summer learning tips - things you can do to promote learning during the summer.
A summer trip is a great time to make academic skills come to life.
School-age children often wonder how the things they are learning
at school actually relate to their everyday life. Parents wonder how
they are going to keep their children from forgetting everything they
learned at school during the summer break.
With a little
creativity and common sense, fun and practical activities can be made-up
that will keep up children's skills and make the learning relevant.
Geography
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Locate your home and destination on a map. Find out such things as: What route(s) will you be taking? What direction will you be going? What states, cities, or counties will you be going through?
Download a blank map and have your child color in and label the states (or countries) you will visit.
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Get
a book or pamphlet or download information on the cities or states you
will be going to. Find something interesting that you would like to see
or share with the family.
Have each child report to the family on the places they have researched, "making their case" for visiting that place.
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