Summer reading loss is cumulative, these children do not typically catch up in the fall. Their peers are progressing with their skills while they are making up for the summer learning loss. By the end of 6th grade, children who lose reading skills during the summer are on average 2 years behind their peers.
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It is estimated that students can lose up to 30% of their skills and knowledge during the summer! Smarty Pants Campswill help keep children reading, writing and problem solving during the summer to help prevent this Summer Brain Drain
This summer I'm making notebooking sheets to go along with this book. Once I'm finished making them I will offer them free to all who purchase this title from me, in hardback or paperback.
"Studies have suggested a link between a well-developed sense of spatial awareness and artistic creativity, as well as success in math. It can also be important in the development of abstract thought. The ability to organize and classify abstract mental concepts is related to the ability to organize and classify objects in space. Visual thinkers, in particular, will tend to use their visual imagination to organize abstract thought."