Summer is almost here and that means summer break. With hot days spent away from school, many kids experience summer slump. The summer slump is when children are out of school for an extended amount of time and the things that they have learned at school get forgotten. It happens when children do not read everyday or practice other important skills that they have learned in school. By making summer a learning experience, kids can continue to learn all summer and not even realise they are still learning.
Ways to Help Kids Continue to Learn Over the Summer
Make it fun: The first thing about turning everyday moments into learning experiences is by making it fun. Find something that your child loves. Maybe she loves checking out flowers or bugs or rocks. It doesn’t matter what the subject is.
Books: Once you know things to focus on, get books on those subjects. If the child likes flowers, get age-appropriate books on flowers or whatever the subject is. Since it is something they like, reading time is not as difficult.
Explore: After the child has learned more of the subject, get out and look. Explore. Staying with the flower theme, see what new flowers the child can find and if she knows the name. If she doesn’t take a picture to research it later.
Hands-On: Do more than just look at the flowers and try to name them. Check out the structures of the flower and see if one flower’s petals look the same as another’s. Use the Discovery LED Pocket Scope to get a close up look at the plant.
The Discovery LED Pocket Scope is a small pocket sized microscope that is designed for kids. Perfect for children ages 6-10, this small sized microscope has a magnification power of 50X. The kids can get close up and see all the small details of the flower that they might not be able to see with just the eyes. The scope has an LED light, adjustable light direction, a focus wheel and an excellent optical lens. The Discovery Scope is easy to use for kids too. Kids can put the scope right over the item they are looking at.
This takes learning about anything to a new level, and because it seems like play, kids are learning without even knowing it. This type of learning can be used with any passion the kids have. The key is to get them excited and then get them learning.
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A few nature walks and adventures to learn about the great outdoors!
we will go exploring our local area
off to eden camp with my eldest as they are doing ww2 history at school
Walks in the woods to learn about creepy crawlies and plants
trips to the park and playground x
Our local woodland area
We like to go foraging in our local woods and parks.
We are going to the beach and looking for what we can find there .
Walks in our local parks and down on our local beach x
We’re off up the coast to do a bit of crabbing.
Finding penpals so that they can keep on top of handwriting and maybe learn something about where they live, while enjoying getting post
During the summer holidays we tend to go for walks along our local riverbank with our dog, they all find lots of things to examine and learn about (including the dog!)
Visiting the woods, beach and museum
beach exploring adventures
Trips to the park and some seaside visits exploring rockpools
THE SEASIDE
a plot-to-plate experience, with the grandchildren involved in growing, harvesting, cooking and eating veg and salads
We plan on going to Petra and Jerusalem
Trips to grandparents
A visit to Monkey World where the children can learn to recognise all the different species.
Visiting the local museum, going to the library and the beach
We have lots of trips and walks to the beach and the local forests planned! Also some fossil hunting!
we like a good museum, so we’ll go to a few of those. also our local castle 🙂
We’ll be practising timestables with our son!
We got out exploring places likes beaches and woodlands. We also love trips to the local science museum as there’s so many hands on things to do
We’ll be visiting the petting zoo to learn about the animals
We are going to go rockpooling
Not sure yet but it may involve the Czech republic
We’ve got trips to the beach and zoo planned and some nature walks
we are going take my niece crabbing
Nature walks in the various woods in my area. There is always plenty going on.
Exploring our area and learning about wildlife xx
Rockpooling at the beach and bird spotting in the garden
Going to the Exeter Museum.
We are going to have lots of fun adventures outdoors
We are going to the local museums so that should be fun
we’ll be exploring the western lake district and also hiring a car to visit the Scottish highlands to explore the beautiful landscape there! xx
We are going to Northern France to view the war graves
Staying with my mum in Dorset for a week and we will be looking for fossils along the Jurassic coast and sampling fish and chips
lots of out door exploring and adventures
nature walks and camping!
We will be visiting the park to identify birds and to collect fallen leaves, cones and grasses for a nature collage.
A trip to an RSPB nature reserve for a bit of bird watching
A road trip to see family
How cool is this
Exploring different parks and visiting museums and farms
we’re going to explore some parks
Using our national trust membership
We’ve already visited the sealife centre near our home so when we go on holiday to the beach we are going to try to find starfish, dolphins and any other sea life we can track down
I’m taking my nephews camping for the first time this summer, so I have lots of nature walks planned and exploring rock pools at the beach.
Lots of nature walks and trail hunts.
We haven’t made any plans yet but we like to spend lots of time outdoors
we are going on some nature walks seeing what insect we can spot and birds etc and doing some foraging for our house rabbit and our guinea pigs
We are looking forward to our week in Cornwall this summer.
Walking around the lake and woods
We have started a list of all the country parks, beaches and play areas near us that my children would love to explore and take photos of over the summer. They want to create a scrapbook of all our adventures to look back on.
We will see if we can identify the birds visiting our garden!
We shall be walking along the cliff tops and studying nature in our local woods too.
We will be learning about plants and butterflies in our local woods
We love going to our local park, walking the dog, doing a bit of pond dipping and seeing what we can see so we will definitely be doing this over the summer.
A trip across Dartmoor
a trip to cornwall
We’re going to our local RSPB reserve to learn about birds
We are going to some wildlife parks to learn about the different animals
Lots of trips to the local parks and beaches for us.
camping trip
we are going Rock-Pooling in the summer holidays
Trips to the seaside and lots of walks.
Trip to the beach finding mussels, pebbles etc and up to the zoo learning the names and sounds of animals
We are going to the national botanic gardens of Wales
Lots of walks and hikes in the Lake District with our dogs.
swimming 🙂 xx
Lots of dog walks and visits to local national trust sites x
lots of walks and swimming
We love visiting our local nature reserves and country parks with a picnic, spotting wildlife xx
lots of time outside with the dog, visiting local parks, the coast and museums 🙂 We are also going to go camping for a few weekends