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Publication Date: 2005-May
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How To?Make Summer (Learning) Fun
Lindroth, Linda
Teaching Pre K-8, v35 n8 p21-22 May 2005
Your students can be learning over summer vacation with these fun activities from the web. School will soon be out and your students will start summer vacation. How can you minimize "summer learning loss" over those days that kids are not in school? This year, send your students home with a Learning Log to record fun summer learning. It?s important to gain parental support, so be sure to provide your students? parents with web resources that feature ways for the parent/student to work together this summer. Challenge parents to complete at least two family learning activities with their child and initial student activities placed on the log. Asking students to keep track of their own learning helps them to take ownership of their progress. Offering choices also builds ownership and provides for individual needs. This article also provides a variety of web sites, and descriptions of interactive games, and project content to keep summer learinng fun, fresh and productive.
Descriptors: Internet, Summer Programs, Student Journals, Journal Writing, Learning Activities, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, Educational Games
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