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.
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10 Educational Activities for Fall
Fall is such an amazing season for learning and creativity. The changing leaves, falling temperatures and of course, harvests are such a great opportunity for creative exploration. Are you on the hunt for activities to do?
Back to School Handwriting
Its back to school time and the 7 Days to Better Handwriting mini course is a great way to get the kids back into writing practice.
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.
Podcast: How to Prevent Summer Learning Loss
Summer brain drain can amount to a significant learning loss, as much as 2 ½ months per student, with the biggest losses in math and reading. Consistent summer losses can cause a child to be 2 years behind their peers by 6th grade. By 9th grade, summer losses are considered responsible for 2/3 of the achievement gap. Let’s consider our visual kids. Many of them have already been struggling in school and can’t afford any leaks.
Why Summer Art?
Do you have a kid that wants to spend their summer doing art? They want to build things. Make things. Draw things. Paint and color. All day. Every day. They just can’t seem to get enough. If this is your child, it sounds like you have what I affectionately call an ‘art kid’.
19 Easy and Educational Family Activities
The key to prevent summer learning loss for all kids, especially visual learners, is to make learning hands on, make it visual, add lots of art and time to create and above all – make it FUN. Summer is great for messy, creative and experimental activities because everything can be done outside!
Use the Wait to STOP Summer Brain Drain
From doctor’s appointments for school physicals, waiting in line at amusement parks or riding in the car on road trips, waiting is everywhere this summer. Why not use this time to prevent summer learning loss?
Handwriting Can STOP Summer Brain Drain
It’s common over the summer for the kids to lose some of those hard-earned handwriting skills that they practiced all year at school. With all the playing and creating, they may not get a lot of opportunities to physically write things down to stay in practice. We’ve made something great just for you. Well – for you and your young writer.
How to Draw… a Soldier
This Independence Day, encourage the knowledge of what this day signifies by having the kids sit down for a few minutes and draw this cartoon soldier.
