Semester holidays are one of the most anticipated holidays for children. Students who attend classes for a long time and continue their school life at an intense pace are especially looking forward to these holidays with great excitement.
Especially children, who had to follow their lessons in front of the screen due to the continuation of the pandemic since last year, completed this process even more challenging. At the end of this challenging process, students happily started their semester break.
In order to make this holiday both productive and enjoyable, planning and practices can be made together with the child about the areas that the child is lacking and needs to improve.
- New hobbies can be tried.
- Mom and dad can do these hobbies together with the child or adolescent. At this point, various responsibilities can be given in accordance with the child's age to support his/her development. For example, trying to set their own waking hours during the holiday, helping to organize the table for breakfast or dinner, trying to make snacks and desserts for older children can be organized.
- During the semester break, it is very important for children to perceive this time as a vacation in terms of anxiety and stress management. Emotional and psychological difficulties they experience in their school life can be recognized and children can be supported at these points.
- Another issue that families are particularly interested in during the vacation period is whether students should or should not study during the vacation period.
- The most effective and useful point at this point is to recognize the areas where students are deficient and need to be supported, and to plan what can be done about these areas or areas. It is very important to make decisions together with the student and to involve the student in the process.
- Families can try to increase the student's interest in the lesson with different activities, especially in the lessons that the student resists or does not want to participate in. For example, different methods can be tried to provide the necessary motivation for a primary school student who has difficulty and resistance in writing.
Instead of writing in a notebook, writing can be supported by buying a blackboard at home and writing on it, and writing can be supported by playing a word guessing game with the family. It should not be forgotten that not all children learn in the same way, and learning can be realized by providing motivation through different ways of learning.
