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children s learning activities preventing or minimizing summer setback pages home holidays themes subjects organization series by age motor skills sensory cooking other welcome this blog is here for you to find fun learning activities to do with your children we share great ideas we find and love on the internet as well as ideas we come up with on our own we also like to share resources we find helpful to find ideas for your child click on the age range blog label or on the theme topic you are looking for on the left side of the page in each post we try to list optimal age ranges for the activity but you must judge for yourself if it is appropriate for your child when you try an activity out please comment and let us and everyone else know how your child liked it wednesday august 18 2010 preventing or minimizing summer setback what is summer setback simply put summer setback is the lack of learning that happens to kids over summer break a two year study found that all students had a slower gain of knowledge over the summer the study also found that some students still have scores rise while others actually lower scores so how do you prevent the loss of skills as has been discussed on this blog even we parents don t want to put all the gung ho effort into learning activities that we do during a normal school year we are busy and we want a break but taking a full break from learning activities can be detrimental to children there is good news i recently read the read aloud handbook by jim trelease which i absolutely love and 100 recommend but more on that in another post in it he briefly discusses summer setback and ways to prevent it here are the factors that prevent minimize summer setback pages 87 89 model model reading this means that you read when your kids can see you read offer reading space provide space for reading variety provide a variety of reading materials examples are magazines newspapers and books bookstore library visit the bookstore and or library see library day vacation a vacation or summer camp out of town provides new experiences they meet new people and see new things this increases background knowledge and teaches new vocabulary words educational programs when you watch tv and videos and even listen to the radio watch educational and informational programs read to child read to the child daily see simple summer fun reading see also literacy blog label for more posts encourage child to read even if your child can t read he or she can sit and look at books or magazines field trips visit the fire stations museums the zoo etc see simple summer fun the zoo and simple summer fun museums do many of those look familiar to posts from the simple summer series as well as other posts from the summer i have linked related posts in each bullet why write this post now at the end of the summer several reasons one is that i just read this book last week so the subject wasn t at my forefront another is i know if i wait until next may i will forget all about it another is i hope that you will read this now and somehow remember it next summer and turn to it finally because i know i am kind of a little nervous about summer setback in my own child i do remember being aware of summer setback in myself but this is a simple list it involves easy things to do and many of them are on the simple summer list so perhaps it can help ease our or my own worries a bit posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels back to school literacy simple summer summer setback no comments post a comment newer post older post home subscribe to post comments atom linkwithin followers subscribe posts atom posts comments atom comments get email updates enter your email preview powered by feedblitz labels about us 7 alphabet 25 animals 8 apple 16 art 60 awards 4 babestotsandkids 1 baby 24 back to school 4 baking cooking 28 balls 1 bath 1 beach 2 beads 1 bears 1 bicycle 1 birds 1 blast from 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magnets 5 matching 1 math 45 memorial day 1 money 1 monster 2 montessori 6 morals 1 mothers day 6 multiple children 1 museum 1 music 5 native americans 1 nature 1 new year s day 1 numbers 4 nursery rhymes 3 ocean 3 olympics 4 organization 14 out and about 7 outside activities 7 patterns 4 penguins 3 phonics 1 pinterest 6 planning 4 playgroups 1 polar bears 1 positions 1 practical life skills 5 pre toddler 31 pre writing 1 preschool 23 preschooler 133 president s day 2 pretoddler 7 pta pto 5 pumpkins 3 quick 7 rain 1 rainbow 4 rainy day 17 reading 26 recipes 10 reindeer 3 religion 3 rhyming 1 round up 24 rubbings 1 sand 2 santa 1 science 26 scissors 1 seasons 2 self image 1 sensory 20 service 3 shadows 1 shapes 27 sheep 1 sight words 1 simple for mom 14 simple summer 30 sitting still 1 sledding 1 snacks 10 snow 20 snowman 7 social skills 2 songs 1 sorting 16 spiders 5 sports 1 spring 9 st patrick s day 11 stars 2 successful learning 7 summer 14 summer setback 4 sun 1 surviving winter 15 talking 3 teacher appreciation week 5 teachers 10 teens 1 teeth 1 television 1 texture 3 thanksgiving 30 themed unit 11 time capsule 1 tips 5 toddler 127 toddlers 15 traditions 5 trains 1 traveling 7 trees 4 tried and true 26 turkey 17 tutorials 1 umberella 1 valentines 13 vowels 1 walks 2 water play 8 watercolors 1 winter 19 wood 1 workboxes 1 writing 8 yoga 1 zoo 1 age ranges baby birth 12 months pre toddler 12 18 months toddler 18 months 3 years preschooler 3 5 years helpful books disney s family fun magazine if you re trying to teach kids how to write you ve gotta have this book by marjorie frank the preschoolers busy book by trish kuffner the siblings busy book by lisa hanson and heather kempskie the toddlers busy book by trish kuffner outside links art links gradeschool links literature literacy links math links middle school jr high school links montessori links preschool learning links science links blog archive 2014 1 december 1 2013 14 july 2 may 6 april 2 february 1 january 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