A study published in Research Journal claimed that “52% of students in grades 1 to 6 lose 39% of their total school year learnings during the summer months.”
Summer learning is important yet often neglected though it’s the best time to prepare for the success in the next school year ahead. Your child can feel confident and stand out from others in every aspect with just a little bit investment in summer learning. Students who take advantage of summer learning not only widen their knowledge but also improve their test marks noticeably. A lot of students disconnect from their studies during the holidays. They don’t see a need to keep up with their studies. However, when they are back to school in September, they struggle to keep up. Therefore it’s crucial to keep study going on even at a more relaxed pace but definitely not a full stop for learning.
How Do Summer Enrichment Courses Defeat Learning Loss?
Keep learning over summertime must be an indispensable part of life for children; parents shall take the responsibility to make sure that their children keep certain learning pace and contents while enjoying the summer fun. Summer classes is crucial for the ability of a child to retain knowledge learned the previous year and expand for next school year. Summer enrichment courses and classes are the best vehicle to learn something not normally taught in schools, such as essay writing skills, public speaking skills, and general study skills such as organization, note-taking, and critical thinking skills for the coming year. In addition, children need to read on a daily basis to maintain the constant literacy skills obtained during the previous school year.
What Are Summer Enrichment Courses and/or Classes?
Students are supposed to have fun and relax during summertime; but not at the cost of their academic success in the next school or future. In fact learning per se is fun for children to satisfy their curiosity. Summer enrichment courses is a great opportunity to learn new things, enhance their skills, and etc. Summer enrichment courses cover a wide variety of academic courses which may or may not be offered in students regular school. They could be subjects in schools such as math, English reading and English writing, French reading and listening, or the any subjects; or they could be specialized skills not normally taught in school such as public speaking, note taking or essay writing.
Even in the subjects that are offered in school during the school year, summer is a good to either review what was learnt in the previous school year to fill any learning gaps or learning ahead the concepts and knowledge that is to be taught in the next school year so that you child can start ahead of his/her peers hence ensure his/her outstanding marks in the next school year. For example, if you child finished grade 8 in June, it’s a great idea to enroll your child in a grade 9 math learn-ahead summer course so that he/she is prepared for the big jump of high school. Or your child just want to enhance a particular skill in summer such as French Speaking.
There are a few strategies to make the most out of summertime for learning.
#1 Make a Study Plan for Summer Time
Create a separate study plan for your kids during summertime. It is a great idea to keep them on track and revise things they have grabbed lately. Explain the topics you want them to cover during summertime and make sure they stick to the decided plan. Kids will inculcate a habit of studying regularly and devote time to their hard subjects. Because school sessions have a limited time, whereas in summertime, they can use the whole time wisely and improve without much time pressure.
#2 Now Fit the Plan into Your Personal Plan
While many families plan long time to a relative’s house or exotic locations during summertime, online learning sessions are a great way to stay on top of their studies. In addition, parents can carry kids’ study material on laptops or phones and record video lectures on them. This way, your child can access those lectures from anywhere, anytime while learning new concepts and revising the previous topics as well.
#3 Retaining the Loss by Exercising The Brain
OAKLearning Center Summer Enrichment Courses encourage students to read and strengthen their reading skills as well as others. Just like exercising keeps our body in shape, reading keeps our brain in shape. So if you don’t exercise in reading, you will lose literacy skills. A recent study shows that children who don’t read over the summer lose two months of reading development. Learning loss in summer can be hazardous to them. Meanwhile, students who do read over the summer may gain proficiency in subjects. Reading over the summer keeps your child busy, which is essential for helping students stay on track for their educational careers.
#4 Summer Enrichment Courses Increase Knowledge
Studying in summer is highly effective at building up knowledge in vast subject areas like English, math, science, and French. Some of the studies monitored the impact of reading from elementary through adulthood in a child’s life. They discovered school time cannot fulfill the requirement of greater intellectual progress in vocabulary, spelling, and math than in summer break camps. Summer education is a powerful way to grow comprehension skills and increase general knowledge. Children who read stay ahead of their classmates.
#5 Dive into new skills
Even if the school offers different activities for students, summer enrichment courses allow a deeper dive into learning. Think of giving your child a week immersed in advanced math learning, or essay writing, or a specific skill-building. It is quite tough to find such focused activities somewhere else; these opportunities only exist in summer courses.
#6 Get creative This Summer
You can encourage your child to pursue extra-curricular activities and interests by using their creativity and knowledge. Constant dedication and motivation from summer enrichment courses help grab new skills, practice existing ones, and have something to be proud of the whole summer. Students at the OAKLearning Center are continuing their daily study throughout the summer months with extensive maths, French and English programs that keep children’s brains active and alert. In addition, we reinforce the vital study skills which will help them start their new school year off with flying colors. Keep your kid’s learning on track by reminding them that the summer holidays are full of laughter and skillful sessions.
#7 Attend Interesting Workshops
Workshops are an extraordinary way to spend time while learning new things. Your kid will also have a chance to meet new individuals that have similar interests as him. The workshop intrigues you, regardless of its expressions and artworks, drawing, singing, or even fundamental abilities. They will positively offer so many awesome results in your child’s growth.
#8 Educational Trips
Apart from taking your child to summer courses, you can also plan educational trips to a museum or zoo or take a nature walk. These low-cost ways are best for learning while having a great experience. Visit a community library to see what’s new in town and what is going to be there in the coming weeks. Make these visits more fun and enriching by setting challenges like a scavenger hunt across a museum.
OAKLearning Summer Enrichment Courses
A summer vacation is an extremely amazing time for kids; they enjoy it a lot. Every student gets the opportunity to enjoy these months without getting reminded of studies or tests. This is the best time to enjoy while involving with their academic enhancement. Our summer academic enrichment courses will be here again in summer 2022 after missing out due to COVID in past two summers. These carefully designed and time-tested courses will have everything your child may need to succeed in the future; Maths, English (Reading and Writing), Essay Writing, French, study skills, and so much more. Talk to our team and gather more details.