Beat the Summer Slide: Make a Big Splash with These ADHD-Friendly Learning Projects
Like an infomercial for summer reading, I walked dutifully into the Barnes and Noble, flanked on one side by my six-year-old, Zoey, and on the other by my three-year-old, Oliver.
We browsed the large selection of enrichment and review books, and I decided on “summer bridge” books, which would review the prior year and lay the foundation for the next school year.As we approached the counter, I was feeling mighty proud of myself.
I posted the charts on the fridge, ready to fill it with stickers and stars, and confident that my kids would not be victims of the vicious “summer slide,” the theory that reading and math skills are “use it or lose it,” and that extended breaks from either over the summer results in a loss that will need to be remediated in the fall.Now, looking back, I want to pat my younger self on the head, and say “Isn’t that cute?
You thought workbooks would be fun.”This was before I was a full-fledged Project Based Learning (PBL) geek, but that summer is one of the reasons I point to for transforming my classroom from a place where work gets “done” into a place where experiences happen and are shared.
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