In order to prevent learning loss over the summer, encourage creative play and finding ways to continue learning while still having lots of fun and being exposed to new and interesting things.
The best way to keep the summer brain drain at bay is to continue reading everyday throughout the summer. Just 20-30 minutes per day of any kind of reading is going to keep them fluent while exposing them to new ideas and ways of reading.
If summer days are consistently lazy – a significant amount of hard earned school-year learning, will start to leak out.
So how do we make the most of summer? How do we plug the drain and make gains, especially for our right brain creative kids? The key is to make learning hands on, make it visual, add lots of art and time to create and above all – make it FUN.
Do you need some ideas on how to inject fun and variety into summer learning?