Writing to Remember this Summer
To stop brain drain, kids need to keep writing all through the summer. They need to practice their handwriting and creative writing skills. The key is to keep it fun and light.
Writing Tips
Keep Their Brains Active This Summer
Our new summer eBook is perfect for keeping brains active. Download the book today to get insider tricks on how to stop summer learning loss.
Watch Out for Summer Slide!
Kids can lose up to 2 months of what they’ve already learned over the laid back days of summer. Don’t let your child fall behind. We have created an eBook full of fun and free ways to keep the learning alive without sacrificing the freedom that no school allows.
11 Must Know Phonics Facts
Remember phonics? I always thought of them as the necessary evil of learning to read. You can’t think about learning to read without hearing about phonics.
Writing Is Hard
Visual people can feel a little bit of anxiety when it comes to writing assignments. Since visual learners operate out of the right side of their brains and the right side of the brain is all about pictures, using words to describe these pictures and organizing these words into a coherent body of writing can become a very cumbersome and laborious endeavor.
Fun and Free Teaching Tools
We want to help you help your child operate successfully in the classroom and have designed these activities (free downloads) with your visual learner in mind.
Back to School Undrained
Many of the ideas that I have shared with you throughout our summer Brain Drain series are excellent tools for your visual learner to use throughout the school year to reinforce those new concepts that they will inevitably be learning, and possibly having difficulty grasping.
STOP Summer Brain Drain with Our Activity Sheets
In school, visual learners experience more sitting still, left brain, language oriented learning and much less hands on learning. Summer is a great time to use alternative activities to keep it fun and light while maintaining the learning.
STOP Summer Brain Drain with Story Paper
Visual thinkers have a lot of ideas happening all the time- but the ideas are pictures inside their head. Writing requires them to translate their images into words and get them on paper. A great way to help them translate those images into words is to have them start by drawing a picture.
STOP Summer Brain Drain with Story Starters.
Creative writing shares many of the same benefits for children as visual arts. It is a wonderful way for your child to use their creative mind and use their imagination. But, it can be difficult for visual kids to know where to start.
