Reinforce
I have another giveaway sponsored by the folks at education.com. If you want some great encouragement and overview of some educational and creative summertime activities, read their article on Surviving Summer. Janice has already shared some of the activities that she and Jackson will be trying out this summer in her post Imagine. I thought I would focus on some ways that I hope to reinforce Amanda’s skills this summer.
The first thing that I did was set some goals. She needs to get her multiplication and division facts down pat so that she will be able to tackle the more advanced math that she will learn in 5th grade. I was SO happy to find the rules for this simple card game, Bulls-eye, listed in the 4th grade section (I just went to the Browse Activities by Grade and Subject, selected 4th grade, then searched by topic–Math). Playing this game will fulfill two of my goals for the summer — math reinforcement and spending time playing games with the kids.
Last summer, Amanda and I tried swapping a notebook back and forth to write a story, but it didn’t get very far. I love this suggestion from education.com, which combines the old fashioned art of letter-writing an
d story-swapping with a twist. This method suggests enlisting a relative, and I think that her grandparents would love to participate with her. The additional benefit is that they get to witness her creative writing skills (and see them improve as the project continues).
Education.com has donated a special prize pack designed to help fuel your child’s creativity this summer:
- Alex Toys “Happily Ever Crafter” includes the supplies to make more than 9 different projects, or the materials to create on your own. It’s great for ages 7 and up.
- Magnetic Poetry Kids Storymaker contains words and phrases to fuel the writer in all of us (and I do mean all of us–this is fun for all ages).
If you’d like to win both of these prizes, click over to education.com and look at the Reference Desk sidebar on the left. This is where you will find articles grouped together by subject. Which of those topics jumped out and made you click it and read what the subject grouping of articles? Leave a comment telling us which subject in the reference desk compelled you most.
This prize can ship to U.S. or Canadian addresses. The winner will be posted on June 24 with the other Creative Summer Days winners.
193 Comments
I clicked on Keeping your kids healthy, they got alot of good, helpful resources!
special needs section was good
Your Parenting Style
Types of schools – we have several options (magnet schools) in the area I live in.
Learning to Read jumped out at me because I believe there is little more important in education than good reading skills and a love of reading.
I like the kindergarden readiness section is very informative. ty 4 the great contest!
gifted children is always an area that I find interesting….
love this prize! Hope I win.
This looks like fun!
What topic don’t I want to read more on….. WOW!! I really will come back to read the “IS My CHild on Track?”, “Learning to Read” and “Parenting Styles”!!!
The poetry prize sounds like something I’ll have to invest in when my kiddies start reading. I was soo bad at poetry and I want my kids to really like it:) Plus they love magnetics and it keeps them busy in the kitchen when I cook:)
Your Parenting Style
I really enjoyed the learning personalities section!
All the subjects were very compelling to me but I clicked on Learning Personalities first! Thanks!
so fabulous!
Is my Child on Track? This is always my question!! Thats why it stood out!!
The Learning Personalities section was my favorite, enter me please.
The section on Learning Disabilities interested me since we are dealing with this.
Learning Personalities jumped out at me.
kindergarten readyness
this is really a great toy
Is my child on track caught my eye
count me in please
Learning Personalities. I have always thought that there were different learning personalities.
Learning to Read! I love encouraging literacy.
i would love to win this..Good luck to all who entered.
Moms need all the help they can get.
Learning Personalities seems extremely fascinating to me.
Is my child on track?
Please enter me! I like the Gifted Students section.
As I’ve just begun saying ‘No!’ to my 6 month old, parenting styles interested me most on their site.
“is my child on track?” because i’m always concerned if he is or isn’t.
Kindergarten activities jumped out at me, as I teach kindergarten, and am always looking for new resources and ideas to use in the classroom. Thank you!
nice prize
special needs is always my topic
learning Personalities; many thanks SW
Both “Is My Child on Track?” and “Gifted Children”. I’m a homeschool teacher, and even though I can tell you where she is academically (ahead in many areas), they don’t have a curriculum for life skills, and it’s nice to be able to read up on articles to make sure that she’s doing fine.
Gifted children is certainly intersting, but there are others as well!
I love this kind of stuff!
Learning Personalities caught my eye- my 3 kids all have very distinctive learning styles and preferences, so I found this interesting. Thanks for the giveaway!
Gifted Children, having one myself, I am always looking for resources. My son is in a wonderful public program, and it never crosssed my mind that he should have a right to a gifted education.
Life Skill is a must. We have our children for such a short time before they start to become independant and need to know they will become a community giving,getting involved person for the life they will have. We need to teach our children ,they grow so fast and these skills are instilled for life
keeping kids healthy is the ultimate goal
Your Parenting Style interested me.
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