5 Activities for Your Child During Winter Break

Every teacher has encountered students announcing they did absolutely no reading or learning during winter break.

They usually say this with a smile, as if their confession is meant to hurt our souls as teachers.

The truly bad news is it can take them a while to catch up to where they were before the break.

It’s amazing how quickly a child’s skills can drop off in a couple of weeks. The goal is to prevent this from happening.

There are five activities listed below that should help educate and entertain your child during winter break. Real-world skills are combined with educational skills so that they may be learning and not even realize it!

Most of it is centered around the holidays, so hopefully, it will keep them in the festive mood. Too often kids spend their free time in front of the television or playing video games, these activity ideas can prevent this from happening.

1. New Year’s Resolutions

Resolutions are not just for adults, they are for children as well. There are things we can all do to improve, and having your student write them down on a piece of paper to remind them about when they are not doing their best can come in handy. Perhaps they want to achieve better grades or be nicer to their little sister. In any case, setting goals is not a bad thing.

2. The 5 Books of Christmas
This reading activity is a version of the 12 Days of Christmas, except instead the children will have a reading list of 5 books that they must read during winter break. These books should be chosen together and each one should incorporate some sort of holiday theme. Maybe a book can be about helping others, kindness, or be centered around the holidays. It should contain at least a little bit of the Christmas spirit!

3. Create a Video Christmas List for Santa
There are so many great video apps available that it will be simple to complete this Christmas list for Santa. Depending on how creative your child is and how much experience they have with technology, they can put in special effects, music, and other things that will make this memorable year after year. It will be a family treasure to share for decades to come.

4. Write Thank You Letters
Every child can learn to improve their manners and show gratitude. Writing a thank you note for their gifts will improve their letter writing skills and encourage them to appreciate what they have. It’s best they learn these things while young because it can be harder to learn as an adult.

5. Christmas Baking
Parents that fail to teach their children basic kitchen skills will only have themselves to blame later when their grown offspring can’t fend for themselves or even heat up a Pop-Tart on their own. By asking for their assistance with the Christmas baking, you are not only starting a family tradition and creating memories, but you are giving them confidence in the kitchen that they will need when they become older. And if you don’t ask for a hand, you may just be cooking for them for the rest of their lives. So there is that.

If achieving better grades is one of your child’s New Year’s resolutions, iAchieve might be able to help. We tutor for all subject areas from kindergarten all the way through high school. It really is not a bad resolution to have!

Written by Ryan Crawley

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