Keep Learning Alive During the Holidays
It feels like the school year just started, and suddenly the holidays are here! With time away from the regular school routine, students often shift their focus away from academics. But learning doesn’t have to stop when school does. Here are some fun, simple ways to keep your student’s mind active over the break.
- Cook something: Cooking involves more than just following a recipe—it’s hands-on learning! Measuring ingredients, tracking time, and watching chemical reactions all strengthen math and science skills (plus, you get a tasty result).
- Get Creative with Decorations: Turn art time into a mini geometry lesson. When cutting out snowflakes or making ornaments, talk about shapes, symmetry, and patterns.
- Baking Science: From chemical reactions, measurements, and telling time cooking or baking is an incredibly academic (and tasty) activity!
- Write Cards or Letters: Encourage your child to write to family members or kids in hospitals. This fun, thoughtful activity helps improve spelling, grammar, and handwriting, while spreading kindness.
- Read to Earn Screen Time: Motivate reading by turning it into a rewards system. A few pages can earn 15 minutes of screen time or a fun family activity. Imagine how much a whole book could earn.
- Stay Consistent with Tutoring: Continue your weekly tutoring sessions with your AJ Tutor, and discuss a plan for adding in additional sessions over school vacations!
- Play and Learn: Do puzzles, play board games, or learn to crochet!
With a little creativity, almost any activity can become educational. If you think about it hard enough, you can turn just about anything into an academic activity which will help prevent any backsliding of skills when your student is out of school!
