Children eagerly await summer vacation throughout the school year.Summer holidays are a necessary break for students to find their escape from school routine.
The annual break, in addition to helping them beat the heat, also provides some time away from homework stress and daily routine.While the main intention of summer break is to take time off studies.
However, activities taken up during vacation for the purpose of entertainment, can also have beneficial effects on the students’ academic performance.
Let’s take a look at how this can be done:
● Traveling as a fun and valuable learning experience
The first thing parents can think of for summer vacation is taking their kids on a trip, be it visiting their grandparents and cousins, or exploring new places across the state, country or globe.While traveling can be really fun, it can also be beneficial in terms of acquiring historical, geographical and cultural knowledge of the places they visit or from people they meet.
● Being a nature’s companion
Nurturing mother nature can be both relaxing and fun, as well as enlightening in terms of knowing how the nature is built and what needs to be done in order for our generation and the next generations to be able to lead a healthy and content life.
Anything related to water during summer vacations, given the unbearable heat, is a fun activity for children.Gardening is one such activity that requires the usage of water for its execution.
Gardening can help build a much-needed connection between the child and food instilling importance on healthy-eating along with the need to save trees and greenery.Garden-based learning aids increased nutritional awareness, environmental awareness, academic achievement, and life skills.
● New skills to shine brighter in the next academic year
Developing a new skill, be it dancing, singing, swimming, or even learning a new language or learning coding, can prove beneficial in one way or another.Summer vacations can be utilised in a good manner by letting children take up a new activity based on their interest and learning a new skill which will help them in the future.
● Making reading a new buddy
Reading may sound boring, but it can be made fun in many ways.Children should be encouraged to read novels from genres of their choice and interest, be it mystery, sci-fi or fiction, all books have something to teach.
Reading enhances vocabulary, improves writing and spelling skills, and also help become more fluent conversationalists and successful communicators.Apart from reading novels, as per interest, children can also pick up knowledgeable books such as autobiographies, encyclopedias, ancient world history, general knowledge, and much more.
