Submitted by Angela Grant, Club Z! Tutoring
Worried that your children will forget everything they learned over the course of the summer months? Students can lose skills very easily over the summer, particularly elementary students. Skills in mathematics and spelling usually take the biggest hits, with math skills suffering almost a 2.6 month loss in achievement. There are steps that you can take to help your children learn and even get ahead over the summer months.
Club Z! offers summer educational tips that will help transform the break into an opportunity for students to sharpen their skills in fun and interactive ways.
Follow these tips and send your children back to school smarter and more confident than they were when they left:
- Take frequent trips to the library. Keep a good selection of high interest, grade-level appropriate books around the house. Schedule a consistent, daily “reading time” for your child. Your child will be far more engaged if you read at the same time each day.
- Talk to your child’s teachers, and ask them what your child will be learning next year at school. This way you can tie in family trips with next year’s curriculum to create a more meaningful, hands-on experience.
- Consider Summer Tutoring. Tutoring services, such as Club Z! In-Home Tutoring, can help children catch up or get ahead with one-on-one tutoring in the home. Take advantage of the summer months to remediate or accelerate your child in areas like reading comprehension, mathematics, writing or SAT/ACT test prep. Club Z! even offers a comprehensive study skills program (with an emphasis on note-taking strategies, reading comprehension & prioritizing deadlines) that will help your child start the school year off right and give them “lessons that last a lifetime.”
Summer tutoring with a Club Z! teacher will:
- Rebuild self-esteem battered by bad grades from the previous school year.
- Close the achievement gap by helping students catch up and get ahead before the start of the new school year.
- Prepare high school students with the strategies, skills, and confidence to take upcoming ACT and SAT tests.
- Reinforce skills for children with learning disabilities who might otherwise lose those skills during a 2-3 month separation from formal learning.
- Provide money-saving enrichment and accelerated learning opportunities outside of traditional daycare.
- Enable students to master benchmarks necessary to pass state reading, writing, and math standardized tests.
- Allow kids to explore and develop skill areas they find interesting, such as art, music, foreign language, and more!
- Potentially reduce the workload for high school students whose grades suffer during a key sports season or during play practice.
Find out more about how Club Z! can enhance your child’s summer by visiting our web site at: www.clubztutoring.com/olympia or call Angela Grant at 360.438.9800.
