Summer is just around the corner! We know that students tend to experience a loss of skill over the length of a typical summer. We need to keep our children engaged in learning throughout the end of the school year and into the summer, and we need your help to do this!
Here’s some ways to support your students in keeping the academic gains they have made throughout this school year:
Continue to practice the games taught at APTT nights. The games created and taught by our teacher at APTT were chosen based on specific skills that are important for their grade level. Playing the games will help your child master skills they still need practice and maintain skills they learned over the course of this school year.
Work on Math Fact Fluency. There are many ways to practice math facts—including APTT games, playing cards, and on-line programs. Repetition is key! Helping your child become fluent with their math facts is a great way to support them with learning higher-level math. Less effort spent figuring out math facts means they have more bandwidth to learn math concepts.
Successmaker, our math learning website, remains available to your child all summer! This is an easy way for your child to keep practicing math skills. Consider a goal of having your child practice 3–4 times a week for just 10–15 minutes per session.
Writing—there are lots of ways to incorporate writing into your child’s summer. This is the skill our TM students are least likely to keep practicing during summer months, and this shows when they return to school in the fall. Depending on the age of your child, have them write your grocery list, draw pictures and then create a story to go with it, send an email or letter to a relative, create signs or posters for your neighborhood, or create a comic to share with a friend. You may get even more creative and have them start a blog to share with your extended family.
One of the most important things our students can be doing is reading every day. This should continue throughout the summer. Thirty minutes per day is a great goal. All our students will be provided with free summer reading books thanks to Page Ahead, a non-profit organization dedicated to children’s literacy. We will be running a summer library program on Tuesday evenings from 4–7pm, staffed by Ms. Tionna and Ms. Melanie. Our goal is to keep books accessible to students so that each student can read at least four books over the course of the summer—the amount said to keep summer slide from happening.
Please see the flyer on summer reading programs that our Family Literacy Connector, Ms. Washington researched!
Help us keep the learning at TM going now—and ALL through the summer!
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