While high school age students certainly are not immune to the summer brain drain of knowledge, there are also numerous other items and things they forget during the summer that can affect their new school year: Students usually get new…
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The Ten Things Middle School Students Tend to Forget Over the Summer Break
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Students do not retain everything they have learned in the previous school year over their summer break. Some of this information is critical to their success in the next grade. The ten things many middle school aged children tend to…
The Ten Things Elementary Students Tend to Forget Over the Summer Break
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Some educators call this the summer brain drain and evidence shows students do lose reading, math computational, and other skills over summer break. The ten things many elementary children tend to forget over summer include: 1. Math skills they learned…
What Subjects Interest Your Child?
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Understanding what your child’s subject interests are can and will help him or her have the best chance to do well in their studies this school year. Find out what subjects and topics your child connects with personally. For example,…
Skills Needed to Advance to Fifth Grade
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Fifth grade is usually the milestone grade where an accumulation of knowledge from previous schooling is required to divulge new material. Reading skills required are beyond sounding out words and identifying consonants and vowels. Your student will need to recognize…
Skills Needed to Advance to Fourth Grade
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Third grade curriculum is designed to teach students about language and how to identifying and utilize a book table of contents, glossary, and index. They are taught what authors and illustrators are and how to identify the characters reveal story…
Top Back To School Shopping Tips
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With a few back to school shopping tips you can save a bundle of money and make the experience less painful and even enjoyable. Make two shopping lists. Many parents and students get distracted and caught up in back to…
Skills Needed to Advance to Second Grade
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Knowledge and abilities needed for children to advance to second grade are mostly in math and language. The ability to count by ones, twos, threes, fives and tens, recognize odd and even numbers, and add and subtract are necessary. Understanding…
Skills Needed to Advance to Third Grade
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When children are entering the third grade, they have two years of reading and basic math under their belts. They should be ready to deal with more complex material such as science experiments, relating and determining the differences in countries…
Fifth Grade Test Taking Skills
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Preparing for and taking tests in the fifth grade involve many techniques common to any testing and some specific for the grade level. As with any test preparation getting a good night’s sleep before the test is advisable. A diet…