School's Out For Summer

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School's Out For Summer
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Take a suitcase from the pile on your table
and fill it in with 2 (or more) interesting facts
about something you experienced during a summer
vacation.
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Enjoy a Stress-Free Summer

• Working families struggle to balance the demands
  of adult work-schedules with providing safe
  activities for children.
• Structured activities are beneficial but there
  are advantages to unstructured time for children.
• Allow your children to enjoy the summer.
• There are a wealth of opportunities in the Metro
  area for fun.

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Help!

• Quote of the Day
• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being
  unwilling to learn.
• Ben Franklin
• I still believe, in spite of everything,
  that people are truly good at
• heart. Anne Frank
• Montgomery County Nature Centers
• pick up an Acorn Newsletter (at public libraries)
  for information about sessions offered
• Read, Read Aloud Art
• - read everyday!
• - pick out a picture book and read it to your
  child and then have an art project to go along
  with the book (i.e. read a Clifford the Big Read
  Dog book and make a Clifford puppet)

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• Just Play scavenger hunt, tag, nature walk,
  create a collection, races
• Geography as you visit new places, mark them on
  a map, identify the physical features,
  similarities and differences from our area,
  weather
• Cook lemonade stand, bake sale, guests for
  dinner
• Puppet Show/Play write an original
• play/puppet show or write one based
• on a book, produce the show, sell
• tickets, create a theater, advertise
• the show

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• Fieldtrips Billy Goat Trail, Glen Echo, riding
  the Metro, Smithsonian, King Tut Exhibit in
  Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Jamestown, Baltimore
• Keeping Fit sports, bike rides, jump rope,
• obstacle courses, swimming
• Writing publish a neighborhood newspaper,
• publish a family newspaper/magazine, scrapbook,
  create a timeline of their summer, keep a
  journal
• Photography
• have child take pictures of places visited during
  the summer
• create a journal/scrapbook with captions or
  stories to accompany each picture

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Websites

• http//montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/bellsmilles
  /
• http//aftcalendar.cleverspin.com/
• http//www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/summer/i
  ndex.html
• http//www.gophila.com/go/tut/index.html?GCIDS166
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• http//www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/
• http//www.mc-mncppc.org/parks/nature_centers/inde
  x.shtm
• http//www.glenechopark.org/kids.htm

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