Sanatoriums and children's camps
You can change the environment with the whole family, or arrange a vacation with a trip just for the child. A sanatorium or children's camp in an ecologically clean area is an excellent solution. Most of these institutions in our country operate year-round, and children can relax in them both during the holidays and during school hours, without interrupting their studies.
At the end of March - beginning of April, there is still snow in most regions of our country, and children can go ice skating, skiing and sledding. Many sanatoriums offer children “safe extreme sports” - tubing. And a children’s camp can be chosen in accordance with the child’s preferences: for example, “Cape of Rock” for fans of rock music, “Federation League” for future defenders of the country.
Vacations well spent
There are more useful options for spending time:
- Explore and chat on Discord. This is a modern and, one might even say, youth messenger. It is more aimed at gamers, therefore it is not demanding on PC resources and allows you to create various chats for convenient intra-clan communication;
- Run your own channel on YouTube. A great way to become popular. Many schoolchildren in this field compensate for the lack of life experience with energy and creativity. It is unlikely that a teenager will be able to adequately discuss politics or history in front of an audience (although some succeed in this), but he is quite capable of creating high-quality content dedicated to games, anime, etc.;
- Gain new skills and knowledge through free online courses on the Internet. Some abilities can be easily developed to a basic level in three summer months. For example, learn to play the electric guitar, dance, sing, etc.
7 more ideas from Rina Nicole:
What should a schoolchild do during the autumn holidays?
Some adults believe that when a student has free time, he is obliged to spend it with textbooks. This is especially true for parents whose child is not a particularly good student. In fact, psychologists are sure that in the first few days of the holidays it is not worth loading the student with classes. Even a C student, one way or another, makes an effort to study. Therefore, he needs proper rest. He suggests that for at least three days you need to completely switch to any activity that is pleasant for the child.
Then you can begin the tasks that were given during the holidays. Usually, after a full rest, they can be dealt with faster. Therefore, the child still has a lot of time to continue resting again.
In the last days of the holidays, it is advisable to change the environment. Rest will be complete when the student finds himself outside the usual walls of his home. The best way to get new experiences is to travel.
Of course, not every parent has the opportunity to buy a ticket for their child. But many fathers have a car. So why not take the whole family to the nearest city? Let the child choose the place he wants to visit. It is best to go to a place where there are many attractions. You can choose a rented apartment as your place of residence; it won’t be that expensive.
Where to go on vacation
Don't sit at home. If you can’t get away for a week and go on a trip, spend more time outdoors. When you get tired of collecting leaves and acorns for crafts, come up with something more exciting.
View all posters in your city
Museums, exhibition centers and theaters are preparing special programs for the autumn holidays. In just 10 minutes spent looking at posters, you will create a program for your entire vacation.
Allow your child to choose which events he wants to attend, so as not to drag him out of the house against his wishes.
Travel to another city
A good way to spend the holidays when everything in your hometown has already been explored. The main thing is not to choose an excursion from a travel agency, but to go on your own.
Where to go on vacation
Don't sit at home. If you can’t get away for a week and go on a trip, spend more time outdoors. When you get tired of collecting leaves and acorns for crafts, come up with something more exciting.
View all posters in your city
Museums, exhibition centers and theaters are preparing special programs for the autumn holidays. In just 10 minutes spent looking at posters, you will create a program for your entire vacation.
Allow your child to choose which events he wants to attend, so as not to drag him out of the house against his wishes.
Travel to another city
A good way to spend the holidays when everything in your hometown has already been explored. The main thing is not to choose an excursion from a travel agency, but to go on your own.
Choose one of the nearby cities, find the attractions you want to visit, book a hotel for a couple of days and go.
Explain to your child how to use city maps, how to navigate unfamiliar streets, how to politely ask for directions and find out where the bus is going. Such little things are even more interesting to study than new museums and exhibitions.
At the same time, you will show your children how to plan a trip, where and how to buy tickets, and what services to use to find a hotel. This will be useful for high school students, especially if they are going to study in another city.
Find the deepest puddle in the park
There is no use fighting bad weather, so use it. Fun for younger students: take rubber boots, a stick, a marker and a ruler. Apply markings to the stick and go measure the depth of the surrounding puddles. Write down the results in a special notebook. In this case, each puddle must be sketched.
If you take measurements every day for a week, you will get a finished project that will be useful at school. This will help you look at the slush from a different angle and spur interest in research.
Lay out a maze of leaves
On a walk in the park, take advantage of what nature has provided and make a labyrinth out of leaves. You'll do a great job at first to make an interesting path. Then the children will have a great time playing with it.
Ride a horse
We're not talking about a five-minute ride in the park, but about a full-fledged lesson in an equestrian club. Horseback riding is an active sport that will keep you warm in any weather. And getting to know the horses will lift your spirits: the horses are warm, huge, each with a unique character.
Take part in a charity event
With older students, volunteer: help organize a charity event, spend a day at an animal shelter, plant a tree, or help clean up the playground. Socially useful work ennobles and provides a lot of interesting experience.
Available jobs for teenagers
The most conscientious and hardworking students do not want to waste time. They are looking for ways to earn their first money. You can do this as follows:
- Distribution of leaflets. Nothing complicated, you just need to put on the appropriate uniform or suit and stand with a stack of pieces of paper near a shopping center or any other place with high human traffic;
- Posting advertisements. It’s a little more complicated and you’ll have to go around quite a lot of notice boards near bus stops and houses. In addition, some employers ask to paste their advertising where it is not permitted: lamp posts, entrance doors, etc. This is fraught with conflict with housing office employees, who are then forced to remove these advertisements;
- Courier. Various small companies often require a courier for a couple of hours a day. Of course, it is not profitable for them to hire an individual employee. Therefore, it is easier for a company to pay a teenager about 500 rubles to take not particularly valuable documentation to various institutions.
In this video, Roman will talk about really useful summer activities that will also help you develop:
What should a first grader do during the holidays? article on psychology on the topic
Hooray, holidays!
The first holidays for first-graders are ahead, and parents have new questions in this regard.
Is it necessary to study with a child during the holidays? Should I do homework or just play? And if you play, what games?
The first thing I would like to say is that the daily routine and its planning remain very important in the life of a first-grader. It is not necessary to get up on an alarm clock and as early as for school, but it is advisable that it be at the same time and not too late.
Holidays are a great opportunity to teach your child something new - some knowledge and skills. One of the most basic and at the same time very important activities is learning to help around the house. There are a lot of things that your grown-up child can do. Help around the house is important both as real help to parents and as a development of a sense of responsibility, self-worth, and also, of course, as preparation for adult life and independence.
Don't forget about books. You should think in advance about what books you would like to introduce your son or daughter to, which ones you think the time has come, which ones are age-appropriate and would be very useful and interesting. Make a list in advance, stock up on books, calculate the time - how and how much you can devote to reading. If the child does not yet read much on his own or reads with difficulty, then make a separate list for the child to read independently and a list of literature that you will read to him. Let there be a time during the day when your child reads independently and a time when you read to him.
Your child will be at home for quite a lot of time, so it is worth paying attention to such activities as modeling, drawing, appliqué, origami, and creating various crafts. Such activities will be not only entertaining, but also educational.
Another important question: if a child is not doing well in some subjects, should I study with him during the holidays? This is a necessity if the child is struggling with any subject and this is not due to fatigue, but to a lack of understanding of the material or lack of any skill. But it is worth remembering that vacations exist, first of all, for relaxation, so studying with a child should not take up his entire day.
It is optimal to arrange 1-2 half-hour classes in the first half of the day and in the afternoon. The first half of the day is suitable for writing and mathematics, but the child can read after lunch.
The main thing is to try to give your child tasks that he would enjoy.
Before the start of the holidays, consult your class teacher about the need for additional activities at home with your child.
Educational psychologist
Voskresenskaya Anna Viktorovna
What to do during the holidays: books, games, courses and lessons for children's development
Summer is a time that we spend fun and interesting. We discover a lot of new things about the world and ourselves. The Sberbank Charitable Foundation “Investment in the Future” has made a selection of products and materials that will help diversify the activities of children and adolescents.
Games and guides
The online skill development guide “4 Seasons” is an opportunity for everyone to realize an idea or a dream using the most modern technologies and under the guidance of advanced experts. On their own or together with an online team, children will be able to develop and implement a real serious project that will make the world a better place.
The Path to the Future game is designed to develop in children and adolescents a conscious approach to their lives and skills such as teamwork, effective communication, critical and creative thinking and emotional intelligence. During the game, teenagers will independently build the character’s life trajectory and form a path to goals, based on their internal values and goals.
The “4 Seasons” online guide and the “Path to the Future” game were developed by experts from Sberbank and the “Investment in the Future” Charitable Foundation as a New Year’s gift for employees’ children, and are now available free of charge to everyone as educational products.
“Contribution” is a game-application that simulates 10 years of life, during which a child needs to earn as much money as possible using various financial instruments and learn to spend it, maintaining a balance between financial well-being and emotional state. The game teaches you to plan, make decisions, think critically and evaluate the profitability of your investments in conditions close to real life. “Contribution” is included in the TOP 20 free applications in the App store and in the TOP 3 Android. Worth a try!
Courses and lessons
During the holidays, children can be encouraged to spend time with great benefit for them - start mastering artificial intelligence and try themselves in machine learning. This can be done on the website of the Academy of Artificial Intelligence for Schoolchildren, a joint project of Sberbank and the “Investment in the Future” Charitable Foundation. 3.7 million schoolchildren
have already completed training at the Academy, many of them have achieved outstanding success: after taking part in competitions and showing brilliant results, the guys won valuable prizes and became students of top universities!
Introductory lessons will tell you about the role of artificial intelligence in the modern world, introduce you to machine learning and help you start solving data analysis problems yourself.
The tasks of all past Academy competitions are designed so that teenagers can hone their skills in solving typical problems in the AI field.
An online course on machine learning (ML) for schoolchildren in grades 8-11 has passed the examination of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and is recommended to educational institutions for teaching schoolchildren as part of extracurricular activities.
Let's read and talk about important things?
Today, more than ever, it is important to learn how to set goals, manage yourself and your emotions, work with information and effectively interact with the people around us. This is important for everyone - children and adults. And it’s good that there is an opportunity to learn and develop your skills together with children. The Investment in the Future Foundation, together with the Directorate for the Development of Corporate Culture of Sberbank, prepared and released six thematic digests about 21st century skills and new literacies.
- How to learn to study
- Together towards a dream: how to learn to communicate and collaborate
- The path to the dream
- What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century?
- Digital jungle: rules of self-preservation
- On the road to knowledge: how to effectively manage the educational process
It is not so easy for a young person entering an independent life to understand the complex structure of the adult world. At this time, he especially needs value guidelines and support.
The Contribution to the Future Foundation together with experts from the Central Children's Library named after. A.P. Gaidar created the Reader of Fiction on the Development of Personal Potential. Parents can use it as a navigator. The materials will tell you how to develop a child’s personality by reading and analyzing literature. Here you will find 300 specially selected works. For 50 of them, text fragments, assignments, games and questions for discussion have been prepared - together they form a special system of classes for personality development. These convenient and useful tools will help you look at works of fiction in a new way, and their use will make reading together not only enjoyable, but also a personally developing pastime.
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