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So what do you do as a parent over the summer to keep the learning moving forward? We have to empower ourselves to keep teaching our kids. Here are some ideas. . . Remember students have been engaged on a daily basis during the school year in a structured practice on a daily basis. Students were engaged in keyboarding, decoding, writing, math, logic/reasoning, vocabulary development, reading, discussion, etc. on a daily basis. My students used HANDLE activities consistently from January to March.

If you want your child/teen to journal this summer, let it be via e-mail to a grandparent or relative instead of by hand.

As far as reading and decoding, students in middle school must read out loud for a total of one hour a day at this point. That might mean 15 minutes in the morning after crazy straw, blow pipes or blow soccer, face tapping and skull tapping. It could be another 15 minutes in middle of day, etc. Make sure whatever your preteen is reading, it is below his/her reading level when reading out loud.

We have parents also have to create a schedule for our kids and then just stick with it.

There is also a keyboarding course for a half credit that Merik can register for on FLVS - http://www.flvs.net/areas/flvscourses/Pages/Course%20Catalog/CourseListing.aspx?CourseID=77 .It is no cost to you.

There is also a 6th grade reading course that is offered through FLVS -http://data.fldoe.org/crsCode/68/Language%20Arts/Reading/pdf/1008010.pdf . Again, no cost to you.

You can not register as a Thinking Center Academy student with it, however, because we are no longer a McKay recipient program.You can just register as a homeschooler for now. Let me know if you need help with this.

I hope that this helps and you feel more assured. It takes work, structure and daily intervention for our kids to continue their progress over the summer.