Avoiding Summer Brain Drain Summer is here! That long-awaited
school break has arrived. Your children are now enjoying their
much deserved time away from the daily grind of spelling tests,
math worksheets, book reports, geography lessons, science
projects and homework. It is time for them to play in the sun,
swim in the pool, go camp, walk the beach, shoot hoops, ride
bikes, sleep in, relax and lose three months of reading and math
gains that they worked so hard to attain this past school year.
Yes, many children fall almost three months behind in math and
reading skills over the summer. This phenomenon is so well known
that educators even have a special name for it. They call it the
"the summer slide." Because of the summer slide teachers often
invest the first two months of every school year focusing on
lesson plans that help students regain skills they lost over the
summer. But this doesn't have to be the case. The summer slide
does not need to occur in your family. Creating a summer that is
totally void o