Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Student engagement: parents preventing summer slide on a budget
As a frugal parent I found this article from Edutopia quite refreshing. Student engagement: Parents preventing the summer slide on a budget by Heather Wolpert-Gawron. The budget friendly ideas of utilizing the skills that the student learned through out the school year could be expanded during the summer break. Preventing summer slide does not need to be expensive. Plan a trip with several visits to the library gathering information. Not only will the student gain from reading but the planning of the trip related to the research encourages complex thinking.
The more involved the student is in the early stages of planning the more input they will give. Investigate sites of interest. Look in your community for great deals on museum, zoos and historical landmarks. Trips to museums or historical sites usually are low cost. Create travel games utilizing the material found for trips like homemade trivial pursuit using information that you gathered in the trip planning. It's a great travel award for the coveted front seat. By using these frugal suggestions, students can have a growing summer with a short slide to fall. Enjoy your family time this summer.
Reference
Wolpert-Gawron, H. (2014). Preventing summer slide on a budget. Retrieved from:
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/parents-preventing-summer-slide-on-budget-heather-wolpert-gawron
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As an educator, I appreciate the need to summer learning and to continue a child's education even while on summer break. Those are great ideas depending on the age of your student to do during summer break. Reading is the basis for all learning and going to the library is a great first step for student learning....and it's FREE!!!!!!! :) Can't beat that!!!
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