Let’s face it; even the most devoted of teachers look forward to summer break. However, one daunting task that can put a damper on an impending break from teaching is that of cleaning out and prepping your classroom for break. Here are five simple, yet effective steps you can follow to prepare your classroom […]
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5 Fun Summer Learning Ideas
School is over for the year, but that doesn’t mean learning, exploring, and teachable moments have to end for a child with the start of summer break. Summer is a great time for kids to relax, unwind, and play with their friends; at the same time, it’s also easy for kids to fall into an […]
Banish Boredom with Fun Summer Journaling Ideas for Kids
Since summer is nearly here, it’s a great time to start planning out some fun new activities for your kids to enjoy during their time off school. Boredom is one of the main problems kids have during the summer, so coming up with some exciting activities for them to explore can help. Writing offers […]
Summer STEM/STEAM Activity Ideas for Elementary Students
How do we get our children to be more engaged and creative? It’s a question that passes through the minds of most parents, and it becomes a particularly difficult question to answer when school winds down, the days get longer and hotter, and all kids want to do is turn off their brains, plug […]
Preparing Your Students for Summer Break
Summer break will be here before we know it, and for many teachers across the country, that means working hard in those last few weeks to finish up lesson plans, get final grades turned in, and get the classroom tidied up. One aspect of the impending summer vacation that you don’t want to neglect, […]
Summer STEAM Based Activities for Early Childhood
STEAM and STEM have become key buzzwords for teachers and educators but what do they mean? STEM – more recently updated to STEAM – stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The “A” in STEAM ties into the Arts. These acronyms really stand for a fundamental push in introducing these elements into the learning environment. […]
Transition from School to Summer Break for a Child with Special Needs
Summer Break is around the corner and kids are starting to anticipate the change in schedule. There are some terrific solutions that can help children with special needs (or any child for that matter) transition smoothly from school to home at the end of the school year. 5 Ways to Help Kids with Special […]
3 Ways to Keep Summer Reading Fun
Summer reading might be viewed as a chore by many students, but it doesn’t have to be. With many schools requiring summer reading and many students needing the extra reading time, summer reading has become a critical part of every school year. Why? Students who don’t read during the summer can lose over half […]
Field Trip Ideas to Investigate This Summer
Every school has their traditional string of field trips that every teacher uses every year. There’s a reason these trips stay around: they’re a known commodity and probably easy to set up. That’s why if you want to spice up the field trip schedule next year, you want to start now. Spend some time […]
Making Summer School a Positive Experience
If you took a poll everyone would rather be at the pool, however, there are ways to make summer school as valuable an experience as the regular school year can be—in fact, it can be a vital part of success come fall. Use these 4 tips to make this year’s summer school environment a […]
Teacher Tools to Defeat Summer Learning Loss
The summer learning loss is real. Research shows that it can cause students to forget 22 percent or more of what they learned over the school year, making a teacher spend a month of review at the beginning of the next year just to get students caught back up. This might seem like the territory of […]
Free Online Learning Tools for Summer
Over the course of a summer, students forget 22 percent or more of what they learned over the school year (often referred to as summer slide). Kids might groan at the idea of school work over the summer break, but check out these online learning tools—with project ideas—that won’t seem like work at all! Audacity Instead […]
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