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Top 10 Family Reading and Writing Ideas for the Winter Holidays

By: Reading Rockets (2012)

1. Creating Learning Traditions
   During the holiday season, consider adding some new traditions for your family that will make meaningful memories and strengthen foundations for reading and learning success. (In English and Spanish)
2. Children, Start Your Letter Writing
   It's the time of year when many children sit down to write an important letter addressed to the North Pole. Other children pen thank you notes and party invitations during this busy time of the year. Some say letter writing is a lost art, but it doesn't have to be!
3. Outdoor Explorations
   Stepping outside is a simple way to set foot into nature's laboratory. Backyards and neighborhood walks can lead to interesting conversations that contain new vocabulary words. You'll also be helping your child developing important scientific skills such as observing, predicting, and investigating. (In English and Spanish)
4. Reading Adventure Pack: The Snowy Day
   Go on a "snowy day" reading adventure! Our reading adventure packs encourage hands-on fun and learning centered around snow-themed fiction and nonfiction books.
5. Putting Your Family Calendar to Work
   Calendars help young children learn the basics of the days of the week and the months of the year. Your family calendar offers opportunities for other learning as well, including vocabulary, sequencing, and math. (In English and Spanish)
6. Reading Adventure Pack: Cooking
   Go on a "cooking" reading adventure! Our reading adventure packs encourage hands-on fun and learning centered around cooking-themed fiction and nonfiction books.
7. Start with a Book
   Explore dinosaurs, bugs, birds, planes, music, sports, superheroes, inventors, art, the night sky, the ocean, and more — 24 themes in all. You'll find dozens of fiction and nonfiction books, ideas for hands-on activities, writing prompts, websites for kids, and interactive apps.
8. 103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading
   Dive into this collection of interactive activities that build reading, writing, oral language, and creative thinking skills.
9. The Night Before the Museum
   Day trips, vacations and special outings create special memories and great learning opportunities for families. Whether you're going to the zoo, the museum, or a state park, below are a few "stops" to make before your visit. (In English and Spanish)
10. How to Help Your Child with LD Have a Happy Holiday
    The holiday season is a time for family togetherness, fun, and friendship. But children who struggle with social and behavioral problems can feel lonely and excluded during this happy time. This article gives you a dozen ways to help your child join the fun.

Summer Math Groups

This summer, Wise Owl will offer week-long intensives to small groups of 3 to teach strategies for Math computations.  Working in small groups will allow the students to receive frequent individual feedback and participation.  The instruction will present aspects of Making Math Real by David Berg to teach multiplication and division facts.  This program presents information in a structured, simultaneous multisensory format with a visual reference style for faster recall and retention.  One of the things we find most effective about this approach is the way that it shows students the connections between multiplication and division facts, and then relates this to fractions.  It is a comprehensive approach that student's find very successful and rewarding.

For addition/subtraction based groups, instruction will utilize Touch Math, a system that allows students to count the facts that they don't have memorized more efficiently than using their fingers.  Memory of facts will focus on doubles (and related facts), combinations of 10, and strategies for adding/subtracting with 9.  

Instruction for all groups will go at a pace that is reasonable for the group.  So, although a plan for the work to be covered is identified, there may be additional or less information covered depending on the successful acquisition of skills by the students.  

See flyer below for more information on Math Camps:

Math Camps at Wise Owl Learning!

 This summer, week-long math camps to improve fact recall, fluency, and calculation strategies will be offered.  For the advanced math camps, correlation of multiplication and division facts to fractions will also be included.

Groups will be limited to 3 students, so please sign up early. 

Group 1:  Addition and Subtraction Strategies to improve memory of facts and fluency of calculations.  Recommended for entering 2^nd or 3^rd graders.

June 24, 25, 26, 27    8:30-10:00               $190

July 16, 17, 18, 19       3:00-4:30               $190

Group 2:  Introduction to multiplication and division facts.  Fact mastery and strategies for recall will be covered to improve fluency.  Recommended for entering 4^th or 5^th graders. 

June 24, 25, 26, 27       2:00-3:30              $190

July 22, 23, 24, 25         8:30-10:00            $190

Group 3:  Advanced multiplication and division.  Fact mastery and strategies for recall will be covered, as well as explanation of how to use this information to assist with fraction calculations.  Recommended for students 6^th grade or older.

June 24, 25, 26,  4:00-5:30  & June 28   9-10:30     $190

July 22, 23, 24, 25         3:30-5:00              $190

To register, please email Kori Morehouse and indicate Group 1, 2, or 3 and June or July session.  Deposits ($50, non-refundable) will be required.