Summer vacations are to be enjoyed to the fullest, and to forget about homework during a season. The children deserve to rest, and need freedom to continue learning through play and discovery itself.
And this is something that "Professor Manolo" also thinks, a third-grade teacher who He has sent his students a particular list of tasks; all of them curious, fun and very educational. So it's nice to do homework in summer!
The to-do list was shared on her Facebook account by María Carmona Rubio, mother of one of the students this teacher has had during the course.
In the role he gave his third grade students on the last day of school, the teacher recommends perform at least half of these inspiring tasks:
Watch sunrise
Learn to play a card or board game that you didn't know
Call or send a message to three classmates
Watch a family movie
Make a homemade lemonade and drink it fresh
Look at the stars for a while
Make ice cream or homemade popsicles
Take care of a plant
Eat a freshly picked fruit or vegetable
Go to bed one night too late
Throw yourself into the pool and splash everything you can
Have a picnic on the beach or in the countryside
Make a necklace or bracelet for you
See fireworks
Visit a museum or an exhibition
Have fun with water balloons
Visit a city or town you don't know
Look at the clouds and shape them
Enjoy your friends and family
Do sports, sing, dance and play
Love yourself, believe in yourself, take care of yourself
Disguise yourself
Walk for a while without shoes
Build a legendary sandcastle
Make a bike route skating
Write and send a postcard
Collect shells on the beach
Never throw garbage on the ground, on the beach or in the countryside
Read two books and some comics
Learn to cook a dish with an adult
Throwing yourself down a slide you had never been before
Learn to do something new
Eat fruit skewers
Laugh until your cheeks hurt
Give at least three hugs every day
Paint and decorate stones
Visit a library
Write a story or a story
Learn three new jokes
See a sunset
Build a cabin or a fort
Say I love you looking into your eyes
Fly a kite
Take care of at least two household chores
Make two new friends
The importance of learning by playing
Many of these tasks are a wonderful opportunity for children to continue learning and reinforcing the contents they have seen during the course. But they will do it in a fun and fun way, while playing and in the company of their family.
Thus, tasks such as "watching a sunset" or "watching sunrise" are the perfect claim to review with the kids. the earth's rotation movement.
"Calling or sending a message to friends", "writing a story or a story" or "writing or sending a postcard", are fun tasks that will help children expand their vocabulary, review writing and spelling, and develop communication skills.
Other duties such as "making ice cream or homemade popsicles" will help them observe and assess the change in the state of matter. And, in general, everything that is to elaborate recipes or help in the kitchen is the perfect excuse to revise the measures of weight and capacity, and to instill in them the importance of a Healthy nutrition.
Of the nature related tasks Children can also learn great lessons, such as the classification of animals and plants, the observation of all their details, see how they grow and develop, physical contact with the environment around us, and learn to love, respect and care for the environment. ambient.
And let's not forget the importance of promote activities related to creativity and imagination, such as "making a sand castle", "painting and decorating stones", "dressing up", "building a cabin", "making a necklace" ... Children will have a great time while developing their inventiveness and ingenuity.
Other tasks of this great teacher, such as "learn to play a card or board game that you did not know" or "memorize three jokes" are great for train memory and develop ingenuity, while sharing a fun time with the family (with all the benefits this implies!).
And there is also room in summer for children enjoy art and culture, know our landscapes, our geography and the villages that surround us. How many great lessons can you learn "by visiting a museum or an exhibition" or planning an excursion to a city or town you don't know.
We could continue to give more examples, and it really is that these tasks that at first glance may seem banal, they hide great and masterful lessons that children will not forget.
And all this, sprinkled with the practice of physical exercise, outdoor games, development of their autonomy and, above all, quality time with family and friends. Happy summer to all the kids!In Babies and More Summer is not for homework, children deserve to rest and learn freely, Homework for summer: the inspiring tasks of an Italian teacher we should all do, Fun ways to learn playing in summer (without homework)
