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3 Simple Remedies for Summer Brain Drain - For Your Children
3 Simple Remedies for Summer Brain Drain (click this link to read other Learning Foundations articles)
 

It's that time of year again.  Your child struggled to barely get by this school year, and he finally gets a chance to relax and recharge his batteries.  Summer is a great time for ‘kids to be kids', but you must be careful to avoid Summer Brain Drain.
According to research by Johns Hopkins University Center for Summer Learning, students lose an average of 2.6 months of grade level equivalency in reading and math when they do not engage in educational activities during the summer.  When August comes around, teachers spend 4 to 6 weeks re-teaching material that students have forgotten during the summer.
Keeping your child's brain active during the summer is critical to prevent the loss of learning skills.  There are 3 simple things you can do with your children to give them the edge to be successful next school year.
 
1.    Plan day trips to your local library or bookstore. 
 
Believe it or not, it is easy to see which students have lost much of their learning skills over the summer by finding out how much and how ... more

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