For the two week tutoring session, I helped with the fifth grade class that involved sports and statistics. We basically played all sorts of games: soccer, basketball, hockey, kickball, matball, etc, and the kids kept the stats on how they did. It was probably the best class because the kids got to run around and play sports (aka be kids), while incorporating math.
This week, I'm working with third graders who are building and creating all sorts of different buildings and "houses".
While I understand that this is all in good fun, I saw some of the kids that I had at the two week tutoring session at this camp, and some of them even attended the sessions before that in June. Kids need to be kids. I understand if kids need to go to summer school to help them improve over the summer, but forcing kids into camps for the entire summer doesn't give them a lot of time to be kids and enjoy the summer.
Parents try to schedule their children's lives out to the minute, and I don't think they realize just how quickly their children will grow up.
Again, I'm not saying that all of these camps are a bad thing because they can be a better option than daycare, all I'm saying is that children need to be able to enjoy their summer, and letting kids have some free time isn't a bad thing.
I meant to publish this last week but I realized that I never clicked publish.
Until next time,
Taylor xx
Again, I'm not saying that all of these camps are a bad thing because they can be a better option than daycare, all I'm saying is that children need to be able to enjoy their summer, and letting kids have some free time isn't a bad thing.
I meant to publish this last week but I realized that I never clicked publish.
Until next time,
Taylor xx
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