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Slashdot Asks: What Will You (Or Your Kids) Learn This Summer?
For those in the northern hemisphere, summer is rapidly approaching, especially for those with kids. Camps, educational programs, and other activities are enrolling now, in advance of the long summer vacation. (Particularly long for Americans!) Aside from conventional sleepaway options for kids, there are science and technology courses, space camps, survival adventures, and more. Whatever your age, and whether on your own or as part of a formal group, do you have any specific learning activities planned for the summer, whether as participant or parent? Are there summer education opportunities you'd like to recommend to others, or ones you'd rate as not worth the price? (Naming details helps, in this context -- which space camp? How much does it cost?)
We live in the city so I'm going to dump our kids at my parents over the summer, country style. The kids will get to roam around freely in fields, forests, lakes, watch the stars in the night and all of it.
I have always wanted to learn how to kite surf. I decided to do this this summer. The thing that kicked me over the edge was hearing about how some people have added a hydrofoil to the surf board, so I want to try that.
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> For those in the northern hemisphere, summer is rapidly approaching, especially for those with kids
Summer is approaching for me, a single guy, at the same rate as it does for my next door neighbors, who do. Why the fuck even make that distinction?
We live in the city so I'm going to dump our kids at my parents over the summer, country style. The kids will get to roam around freely in fields, forests, lakes, watch the stars in the night and all of it.
This is absolutely the right thing to do for younger kids. Do that plus take away most internet access and game consoles and make sure they're surrounded by books. They will play and read all summer long without much direction and learn more from it than we can remember not knowing.
What Will You (Or Your Kids) Learn This Summer?
If I knew that already, I wouldn't be learning it this summer.
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Winter was freestyle skiing - she just finished that this week. Summer will be French camp, a museum camp, and Defcon/r00tz this year.
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My son is 18 months and will be in a Swim-Float-Swim class where they teach them basic survival swimming.
Of course he'll also be learning talking, walking/running, playground, etc and all those other things kids learn between 18 and 24 months.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
School is never out. We homeschool. We're always learning. It's not classroom sit down book learning much of the time but real world things to a large degree. Projects are multi-discipline.
The latest project our family is almost finished with:
Building a USDA / State inspected modern meat processing facility (a.k.a. butcher shop)
History, government, regulations, economics, business, math, engineering, material sciences, architecture, construction, plumbing, electrical, water supply systems, heating, ventilation, refrigeration, meat cutting and so much more...
My wife started taking my kids so a museum or a landmark every friday ("field trip Friday"). She just googled museums, planetariums, farms, anything that would be interesting to a 5 year old audience and gone. I like the results. It gets the kids thinking about other things and we avoid the pit of TV.