Submitted by Launching Success Learning Store
It’s the time of year where children look forward to the end of school so they don’t have to do school work anymore. But did you know that there is the possibility of summer learning loss? Summer learning loss is the loss of knowledge that children experience after a summer of not participating in school-related subjects. While this loss is not spread universally across geography, grade level, or subject, some level of it does happen to many children. Achievement scores, on average, decline over summer vacation by one month’s worth of school-year learning. Ninety-seven percent of teachers say it’s important for students to practice the skills they learned in school during the summer.
While children may not want to do “school work” during the summer, even simple activities of reading a book will help alleviate the effects. Getting children to interact with learning over the summer, in one form or another can be crucial to their success in school the next year.
Launching Success, in their mission to support the education of children, offers many resources to help prevent summer learning loss. They offer many summer workshops that are not only educational; they are an activity for kids to participate in. From craft workshops to summer camps, these activities will all help kids interact with learning in a fun and engaging manner. The free Summer Reading Club is a good way to keep kids reading over the summer. Launching Success also carries multiple different comprehensive workbooks, which are set up to be done a page or two a day, and will help keep the information fresh. These books are meant to review what was learned in the previous grade so that the knowledge does not slip backwards.
One of the comprehensive workbooks Launching Success carries is Summer Bridge Activities® by Carson Dellosa. These books are available from Pre-K to 8th Grade and provide hours of exciting activities to keep kids mentally and physically active during the summer. Each book is designed to be one back-to-front worksheet per day, taking an estimated 15 minutes each sheet, and covers a range of subjects each day.
For more information on Summer Bridge, or other summer learning options, visit Launching Success today! Or, connect with them online at LaunchingSuccess.com, or by phone at 360-527-2641.
