Your child's schooling is up in the air right now, and there's conflicting advice everywhere. One approach could be to channel summer: what do you do to prevent the summer slide each year? How can you imitate that now? Some of these ideas are just right.
, which will help you find a citizen science project to join. Citizen science projects welcome all participants. And those participants all do the same things to achieve workable data that “helps scientists come to real conclusions.
A wide community of scientists and volunteers work together and share data to which the public, as well as scientists, have access.” There are 275 projects your family can do at home or online, and you can match projects to your child’s interest. Older kids may want to transcribe letters by 19th century botanists; younger kids may want to play games and take surveys, or learn to identify frog calls. This is a great thing to do because it helps real scientists collect data, and it’s a great journaling project.Unless your town descended whole from an alien spacecraft, you’ve got some history going on, and someone is working to preserve it. Find those people — likely in a small, dusty museum or historical society somewhere — and visit them. Have your kids prepare questions , which the historians will no doubt delight in answering. Attend battle re-enactments in the vicinity, and learn about the wars they are remembering. Don’t be afraid to buy some merch, either — you’d be amazed how much a Union soldier cap and pistol motivates a kid to learn more about the Civil War! If the Revolution is involved, do what parents nationwide are doing: turn on . Hey, it’s the reason my 8 year old can tell you who exactly stormed the redoubts at Yorktown and why that was important.Just Give It Up and Geek Outlearn best by doing, right? There are plenty of organizations for that. Check with all the living history people at the battle re-enactments; they might be thrilled to enlist a drummer boy and they may even have equipment to lend out. Is your daughter really swooning over colonial dress? Get her some books, a sewing teacher, and a sewing machine, and start taking her to re-enactments. The research on this stuff is meticulous, catalogued, and available on the Internet. You can also contact the , whose members love to teach any child over the age of 8 to use a sword. History flows around us all like water, providing so many opportunities to learn — and even more people who want to teach.Check out poetry from the library. Younger kids will like Shel Silverstein; older kids may like authors like Eliot, Pound, Bishop, Atwood, or even just a collection of modern poetry. Make a practice of reading it out loud to each other. Your kids will roll their eyes at first, and keep rolling them, and roll them some more. But, eventually, they’ll come around — especially if you offer a really great treat for every poem they memorize. One more thing they can write down in their journal — along with illustrations!
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