RISD REPORT
Alesha Eoff, Rockdale Elementary Principal, has information regarding summer school and some tips:
We will offer Summer School for students that qualify until June 28. iTigers staff will provide remediation along with enrichment activities to help prevent the summer slide that students often face once they are out of the school routines.
Struggling readers often forget the strategies or simply don’t practice reading during the summer months, and this can cause delays for the next school year.
Research shows that reading as little as six “just right” books during the summer may keep a struggling reader from regressing. Our Summer School students will have the opportunity to attend our local library for their summer reading program on Wednesdays.
This will be a time for our students to have books read to them, to read with others, and to read independently.
If your child is not attending Summer School, I would encourage you to make plans to take your child to our local library so that they can take part in this or other opportunities and can check out books that are just right for them.
If you are unable to get to the library, please encourage your child to take advantage of every opportunity to read that they can and find something new to read every day. This can be done through the daily newspaper, TV guide schedules, magazines, pamphlets, cereal boxes, restaurant menus, websites, and other appropriate electronic media.
Students of any age will also benefit from reading aloud with an adult. They can build their listening comprehension skills and expand their experiences with texts.
Not only do reading skills suffer, but also math skills tend to decline when not used daily. Research shows that students lose approximately two months of math skills in the summer if they don’t participate in some sort of educational activities over their break.
Further, research also shows that losses in math tend to be even higher than those in reading, which causes math teachers to spend a significant amount of time at the beginning of the year on review, rather than teaching new curriculum.
Fortunately, there are many options for students who want to retain their math skills over the summer months.
Incorporate math into daily activities with your children such as cooking, telling time, using coins to buy something, counting things like laps in the pool or swings on the swing set, or calculating the volume of sand in the sand box.
Even reviewing basic addition and subtraction facts can be helpful to keep the child’s math skills sharp. Intentionally look for ways to make math activities a part of your daily schedule.
We want all of the hard work, success, and growth that the students have made to continue so that our students are prepared and ready for the next grade.
Please help us in these efforts to combat the summer slide by including reading and math activities into your daily summer schedules.
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