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Welcome! Introductions Lia Oldaker, Jerling Penny Grisham, Centennial Mary Ann Curran, Prairie Welcome! Agenda • • • • • Summer Slide Research Common Core Connections “Downtime” Fun Community Resources Cool Apps & Websites Keep Them Thinking Use it or Lose it! MAP Testing • Elementary students' particularly impacted • 3 x a year – At best, no enrichment=little/no academic growth – At worst, lose 1-3 months of learning • Learning loss is cumulative and contributes to achievement gaps • Rectifying learning loss after the fact is costly ($1,500 per student) • Access to summer learning opportunities leads to lower drop-out rates and higher interest in college – Fall, winter, spring • Discuss with your kids • "Meet or Beat" their spring scores • Multiple scores – Look at results – Tailor instruction – Enhance academic achievement Common Core and Our Kids K-8 • CCSS Initiative Info • 21st Century skills • Technology-based assessments • “Correct” answers vs. “thoughtful” answers • Engaged and motivated vs. passive learning • Reading/Writing – Informational texts – Feedback – Re-writing High School and Beyond • College and Career Readiness • College eligible vs. college ready – Meet expectations of entrylevel college courses • Placement tests • Faster pace – Informational texts • Information Exchange – Analysis – Opinions vs. evidence – Critiquing and re-writing Be Prepared! • Schedule "play" time! – Online games – Traditional games • "Wait-Time" Activities – Download educational apps to smart devices – Books • Traditional • E-books • Puzzles, word searches, sudoku Explore the Community • Summer library programs – Read to Grow – Weekly programming (see newsletter or website) • Young Reader book awards – Monarch, Bluestem, Caudill, Abe Lincoln, Mock Newbery • Library card/Residency • Museum and Zoo Online Learning Databases and Websites Games • Vacations and Staycations • Math – – – – – World Book Online CultureGrams Chicagofun Google Maps National Geographic Kids • Family Reading Night – Internet Public Library – Tumblebooks • BookFlix through OPPL • History – Library of Congress – Visual Math – Math Playground • Language Arts – Free Rice – ReadWriteThink • Geography – National Geographic Kids • All Subjects – Discovery Kids – Fun Brain – Lumosity Apps K-5 • • • • Math • Math Zombies • Mad Addition • Monster Math • Splash Math • Sushi Monster Language Arts • AbiTalk • Aesop for Children • Chicktionary • Mad Libs • WordBall Geography • Stack the States All Subjects • Itooch • Brianpop Grades 6 and Up • Math – – – – Ace Monkey DokiDoki Tangrams Equivalence Tiles Monkey Math 6/7 • Language Arts – Edmodo (Caudill Readers, Summer Readers) – SAT Prep – Crossword: Arrow Words – Word Guess Collection – Rewbuzzle • All Subjects – – Itooch LOCPix (Library of Congress) FYI: Instagram and Geotagging Basics • Gaining immense popularity • Requires only an email address • No one checks age limit (13) • Owned by Facebook • “Follow” your child • Public by default – Check privacy settings Risks • Interactions with strangers – More impressionable – More likely to disclose personally identifiable information – Privacy settings may give false security – Access to inappropriate content • Block/report • Geotags by default Thank You For Coming! • Q&A • Evaluation References • • • • • • • • Conley, D. (2005). College knowledge. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Lundstrom, M. (2005). Stop the summer reading slide. Instructor, 114(8), 20-22. Oakley, G., & Jay, J. (2008). “Making time” for reading: Factors that influence the success of multimedia reading at home. The Reading Teacher, 6(23), 246-255. Smith, C. (2012, December 23). Safety of social networking sites is concern to parents. Tulsa World (OK). Smith, L. (2012). Slowing the summer slide. Educational Leadership 69(4) pp.60-63 Schulte, B. (2009). Putting the brakes on ‘Summer Slide’. Education Digest, 75(4), 17-22. Stopping summer slide. (2010). Reading Today, 27(6), 1-6. Sultan, A. (2013, January 16). What parents should know about Instagram. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO).