Welcome back friends! Another day, another blog post coming at you! I bet most of you, like John and I, are sprinting towards the finish line when it comes to school ending in a few short weeks. This year has been an upheaval of insanity to say the least. We are so thankful for the community we’ve created over here on @theteacherteam blog, and we are here for all of you. COVID has presented many challenges, changes, and turmoil for everyone. For those who are struggling, pushing forward, or healing, just know our thoughts are with you as well as our hugs!
COVID and the post pandemic era will have a lot of us catching up on things… for a while! There’s a lot of great things we will get to catch up on like family get togethers, vacations, fun with friends, graduations, celebrations, and so much more. With school being thrown for a loop this year though, many of our students need some extra support during the summer. Playing catch up will be kind of like a game of Tetris for a while.
Oh, what endless possibilities for learning!
To get students to where they need to be especially by the end of summer, where do we start? The hardest part is always starting! Some students will need more support than others, but we as educators and parents need to try our best to help them feel confident heading into the next grade level.
Some things we can do during the summer is refreshing their heads with information studied over the past year such as math and history. Having active conversations about their favorite subjects, projects, or lessons that they learned over the past year will help keep their minds stimulated. Another easy way to keep them on track with language arts is reading! Reading with your students or child has so many benefits (check out our last blog post Reading for Fun: the New Pastime for more details). Taking them to your local library or encouraging them to read what they want to read will have a lasting impact on their reading comprehension and writing skills. There’s also tons of online resources you can use, along with tutors if there are certain subjects you want to catch your child up in!
Also, you can always ask your child’s teacher if they have any ideas, resources, or lessons for you to use during the summer!
Re-reading notes helps cement concepts in your brain
Catching up and getting back to our “new normal” will take some time to adjust. Learning and re-learning doesn’t happen overnight, and thankfully this whole year has taught us patience-a lot of patience tee hee! I hope you all are having a great ending to your school year. We will definitely miss our students and they (as well as us) deserve a much needed break to have fun.
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See you soon!
John & Carol
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