Prevent the Summer Slide
Tips to help your child keep learning this summer
Summer Slide
Research shows that students can lose as much as three months of learning over summer vacation. Three months is more than one quarter of our academic school year!
I'd hate for that to happen to our class because students have made so much growth this year.
It's important to keep working this summer, so that students keep growing!
Literacy Activities
- Read! Read! Read!
- Visit the library to read and participate in their awesome summer programs!
- Send postcards to family and friends from vacation hotspots.
- Blog about it! I've started a new blog for our new year! If you write a blog post, I'll write back and so will some of your classmates!
- i-Ready
- Keep a Journal or Diary!
- Sign up for the Scholastic Summer Reading Program
- Read! Read! Read!
Math Activities
- Study math facts! If you've mastered addition and subtraction, you can get a head start on multiplication facts! A great site for practicing fact fluency is Xtra Math. You can create a free account for your child.
- Dreambox - Student accounts will be active all summer.
- Tenmarks - Student accounts will be active until July 31.
- Printable Math Practice Book - Grade 2 Review
- Printable Math Practice Book - All Grade Levels
- Cook Something - There's a lot of math in cooking! Pull out a recipe and cook with your kid.
Other Fun Learning Activities
- Legos - Build and create with LEGO blocks and then write about your creations!
- Virtual Field Trips
- Science Experiments - Look on Pinterest for fun science experiments.
Prevent the Summer Slide
We talked about how important it is to keep their brains active this summer and each student came up with a plan, which included things they wanted to do this summer to help continue their academic growth.
Students worked together to come up with fun ways to keep their skills sharp this summer! Here are some of the activities they came up with.