Young students need activities
that help them learn and stay sharp over the summer, and parents can choose
from many simple ones for their children who are in kindergarten through the
third grade.
Sorting and stacking helps
teach classification skills. Ask your child to match and stack dishes of
similar sizes and shapes.
Also have children sort
silverware — forks with forks, spoons with spoons.
This is like recognizing the
shapes of letters and numbers.
You can also use comic strips
to help with writing.
Cut apart the segments of a
strip and ask your child to arrange them in order.
Then ask your child to say the
words of the characters out loud.
It also helps to encourage
hypothesizing or guessing.
Use objects such as soap, a dry
sock, a bottle of shampoo, and a wet sponge. Ask which objects will float when
dropped into water in a sink or bathtub.
Then drop the objects into the
water one by one to see what happens.
This all helps make learning
fun, and it keeps young minds active over the summer months.
