Summer holiday Learning

by Leyla [Thisdayilove] - 16:12

Do you remember when you returned to school after the school holidays and you used to turn to your friend and say 'I've forgotten how to write' or something similar. Earlier this month I read the following article on the BBC, it looked at the possibility of shortening school holidays and also spoke about the summer forgetting period. This got me thinking, how can I help my daughter as she starts her first year of school. I want her to get into good habits so that she doesn't see the summer as a break just a different learning opportunity. In addition to this I don't want her to feel over whelmed and want her to see learning as fun.

I have started to do two things with her recently, the first is the Parragon books #summerwithgoldstars challenge. This takes one of Parragon books excellent learning resource and you do a page a day, tweet a picture with the #summerwithgoldstars and after 30 days of doing a page a day the child receives a certificate. The idea is to keep it simple but to keep learning alive. By doing just a page my daughter doesn't feel overwhelmed and she keeps up her learning. I have already noticed a great improvement in her phonics and she is so happy with her gold stars.

The other thing I have started doing is creating our own learning resource. I have written before about our love for twinkl and of some of the ways we have used twinkl but as I have twinkl premium I also have access to twinkl create. Twinkl create means I can make my own resources to help my daughters. This great resource means that everything is personalised to their individual stage of learning. For example my youngest likes animals so I am currently creating flash cards of animals to help her learn different animals and also to explore different colours of the animals.

There is such a huge amount of resource available on twinkl that we can turn learning into fun ensuring that my daughter has the best possible start to school.

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