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Teacher Notes
Summer is a great time to expand the learning of children.
Teachers please work with the parents of your students on how
they can expand the learning horizons of their children.
Field Trips
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Summer
Weekends of Exploration & Entertainment
When our children were
young we packed them up and spent the summer at my father-in-law’s house in Springfield, Massachusetts.
There were times I had to commute from New York as I worked summer jobs (summer school,
curriculum writing) but we dedicated each weekend to what we called E & E.
One day was for exploration and the other for entertainment. The Triple AAA
guidebooks are great for this purpose as well as Chambers of Commerce and
Visitor Bureaus.
Exploration: Mark Twain
and Harriet Beecher Stowe houses near Hartford, CT, Springfield Armory,
Chesterwood (Daniel Chester French), Norman Rockwell Museum,
Arrowhead (Herman Melville’s house), Gillette Castle, New England Air
Museum...
Entertainment: Movies, amusement parks,
lake, parks, town festivals (arts & crafts, Basketball Hall of Fame (they
loved shooting basketballs at different hoops), Baseball Hall of Fame,
Volleyball Hall of Fame.
One year when our
children were teenagers I took them on a pre college exploratory trip.
I took them back to Our Alma Mater, the University of Pittsburgh. We
toured the campus and the city. One great educational experience was
when I took them to the Carnegie Science Center. Also included was a
visit to the Pro Football
Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. On the way home we stopped off to visit
a good educational friend in State College. He and his wife worked on
the campus of Penn State University and gave us a great personalized tour of
the campus and a visit to The Creamery.
Summer
Quilt Hanging
by Gail Blumengarten
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