HELP YOUR KIDS STOP THE SUMMER “BRAIN DRAIN”

“On average, children lose between two to three months of grade level equivalency with math skills suffering the most.”

From Philly.com. August 2013. Anita Kulick,  President & CEO, Educating Communities for Parenting

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/healthy_kids/Stop-summer-brain-drain-with-fun-and-educational-activities.html#l0T6E8s3YphFjXIa.99 http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/healthy_kids/Stop-summer-brain-drain-with-fun-and-educational-activities.html#l0T6E8s3YphFjXIa.99

Have Fun with Summer Learning

Going on Vacation? Ask your child to help plan

the stops – figure out how far you will travel in a day - - where would you arrive each night? How much money needs to be budgeted for lodging, food, fun?

Have Fun with Summer Learning

Staying Local? Do a Place-Based Learning

Project Research something local

and find out all about that person, place, or event

Create a scavenger hunt for your friends when they go to visit

So What’s Here? Amerind Foundation (Native American

Cultures) Chiricahua National Monument Cochise Stronghold Copper Queen Mine (Bisbee) Coronado National Memorial Fort Bowie Kartchner Caverns Murray Springs Clovis Site

So What’s Here? Nature Conservancy’s Ramsey Canyon

Preserve (2nd most famous hummingbird habitat in the US?)

Parker Canyon Lake (camping available) Patagonia State Park (camping available) San Pedro Riparian Area Tombstone Whitewater Draw Willcox Playa (…and more, more, more!)

For information and phone numbers – go to

www.explorecochise.com

Have Fun with Summer Learning

Need Indoor Ideas? EDSITEment (

www.edsitement.neh.gov) Art and Culture Foreign Language History and Social Science Literature and Language

Arts

Have Fun with Summer Learning

Need Indoor Ideas? Math-related interactive

games Illuminations (

http://illuminations.nctm.org/) click on “Interactives”

Interactivate (www.shodor.org/interactivate)

Have Fun with Summer Learning

Need Indoor Ideas? Science-related interactive games

Science Kids (www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities)

PBS Kids (pbskids.org/games/science/) NASA Kids Club (

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html#.VUK9_yFVhBc)

Have Fun with Summer Learning

Need Indoor Ideas? Give your child a stamped postcard –

have them write to you about their day at…

Writing-related interactive games ReadWriteThink (

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/)

Interactive Sites for Education (http://interactivesites.weebly.com/writing.html)

When it's time to make lemonade, help your child measure 4 tablespoons of lemon juice, 8 tablespoons of white grape juice, and 6 cups of water into a large plastic pitcher.  How many glasses of lemonade will you have?

Have your child decide on dinner – have them…

Pick the main dish

Pick the sides

Pick the dessert

Calculate the calories Look up the nutritional

facts Get a cookbook and have

them make or help make the meal (have them shop for the food – double the recipe).

Summer Recipes for Yummy Math Fun

SUMMER READING

Reading Rocketshttp://www.readingrockets.org/shows/launching/summer_reading

Scholastic Reading Challenge http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/src-2015

Reading List 8-10yr old

http://www.scholastic.com/readingcampaign/downloads/src2014-book-list-ages-8-10.pdf

Reading List by Grade http://www.education.com/seasonal/summer-reading/

KEEPING WHAT THEY LEARNED CURRENT . . .– KEEP IT REAL– KEEP IT MIXED UP– KEEP IT FUN

SUMMER BRAIN DRAIN