{"id":976,"date":"2018-05-30T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/?p=976"},"modified":"2018-05-30T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:39:09","slug":"summer-packet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/2018\/05\/30\/summer-packet\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Packet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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-Teach your child to tie their shoes. Find a fun trick! Watch a video! Give an incentive! Be persistent! Just make sure your child isn\u2019t the one dragging their laces through the bathroom and cafeteria then asking the teacher to tie it.<\/div>\n
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-Keep bedtime in the routine. It may be a little later and there will be nights that bedtime doesn\u2019t apply. But overall, if we keep our bodies in a routine with sleep, August won\u2019t hit quite so hard.<\/div>\n
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-Choose a few family members and friends to write a letter to this summer.\u00a0 Ask your child to write in full sentences, ask questions and give details. Writing with a purpose makes it relevant and real for your child. Maybe someone will write them back! Include an envelope with return address and stamp to encourage that!<\/div>\n
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-Sit at the table and eat together. Really watch your child. Is he sitting on his knees, mouth wide open, food everywhere? This is how he looks in the cafeteria. Work on that.<\/div>\n
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-Encourage kindness.\u00a0 Find someone or several others that your child can do something simple to bring a smile. Deliver cookies, make a card, flowers, chores, a song…something simply for a smile.<\/div>\n
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-Don\u2019t rush to the rescue. Hear me out. Our children need us. But they need us to let them learn to problem solve.\u00a0 If your child is in a situation that is frustrating, but not harmful (example: can\u2019t put together a new toy, can\u2019t open a lunchable, can\u2019t decide which color shirt to wear) let them work it out! It saves time and our nerves to just do it! But in the long run, it\u2019s crippling our children of the basic and necessary skill to problem solve and think through an issue…for themselves. Hang back…just a bit. They\u2019ll be ok!<\/div>\n
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-Read TO your child.\u00a0 I can\u2019t encourage reading enough! Please visit the library and make books a part of your summer days. Most importantly, let your child see you read- to yourself and to them.\u00a0 Let them hear your silly voices.\u00a0 Let them tell you the best parts and predict how it will end. We tell them all the time they must read, but are we showing them WE read?<\/div>\n
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-Put down your phone. On Mother\u2019s Day, I create a booklet with my students. They answer questions all about their Moms, write sentences and draw pictures. One page is \u201cMom\u2019s Favorite Things.\u201d Can I tell you the top item colored first on most booklets?<\/div>\n
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We must look up from our screens and look at our children. They are growing so incredibly fast. We could spend this summer scrolling through strangers\u2019 vacation pictures wishing we had their reality or we could be chasing our reality through the sprinkler in our own backyard.<\/div>\n
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-Rest. Be ok with not constantly going somewhere. Society, media, Facebook all have us believing we must seize the day and do it all. Our children have worked hard and they need to rest. If we keep them in perpetual motion through the summer, it will feel like a continuation of the chaos with less homework. Squeeze in the fun, but allow the time to rest.\u00a0 Boredom gives way to creativity. Rest renews our bodies and our minds for all the next school year has in store.<\/div>\n
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-Teach your child to tie their shoes. Find a fun trick! Watch a video! Give an incentive! Be persistent! Just make sure your child isn\u2019t the one dragging their laces through the bathroom and cafeteria then asking the teacher to tie it. -Keep bedtime in the routine. It may be a little later and there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rhondahassan4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}