Summertime is here and children have been trading in their class time for pool time as schools around the country are on hiatus until late August/early September.
Families have started to enjoy day trips, limited schedules, vacations, quality time together, and plenty of outdoor fresh air. However, although children would probably much prefer to shelve their books and ignore practicing those basic math facts – they shouldn’t, especially after this unusual pandemic school year.
Each fall, teachers wrestle with the inevitable “summer slide” – orsummer learning losswhere studies show there is significant knowledge loss in reading and math over summer break if children don’t practice these skills each day.
Thanks to COVID, learning declines throughout last year were very real for many children. However, it’s not all bad news! Kelly Ross, Oak Knoll's Academic Support Counselor, offers several ways families can help children combat theCOVID slide– the gaps of academic growth and lowered expectations due to the learning disruptions from the 2020-21 school year.
