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by moistgorilla
5042 days ago
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As someone suggested I think that rather than having one really long break there should be more small breaks in between. When I was in middle school I remember one year we were taught how to write in cursive. Summer came and I forgot it completely. We can't expect children to practice and maintain skills they don't even understand the value of over breaks (not that cursive is particularly valuable). |
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Why not?
My eldest is 7 and I've done regular reading, spelling, writing and arithmetic with him over summer. A little science, lots of nature study, etc.. Sure the motivation hasn't really come from him, though he does like to read. One spends most of the time at parks or in the woods or whatever (for us it has to be anything free) but education doesn't end - or at least isn't somehow disallowed - when the school bell rings.
Schools are a service that you use to aid education (though some would say otherwise!) and not a place you go and have an education handed to you. I'll take one education please, make it snappy.
I wonder whether the break serves a function as far as spaced repetition goes?