SOMA Living February 2022

EDUCATION As the temperatures plummet below freezing here in our SOMA winter, summer is on the minds of many parents. Summer camps. Summer fun! Sleep away camps! Art camps! Sports camps! Oh boy! Oh no! Camps around here fill quickly! It’s survival of the fittest on camp rosters. Facebook is replete with laments of “this camp is full!” or “we’re #17 on the camp waiting list 30 minutes after registration began”. It’s rough! But we LOVE summer at Best in Class! Summer is a great time for enrichment—a real academic boost! Although all the seasons with our students are special, summer is our favorite season because we can really “dig in” with students to boost their readiness, in math and English, for their upcoming grades! We also get to have a lot of fun with our students in summer like sidewalk math, math is everywhere walks, UNO championships, spelling offs, and group story writing! Some of the best programs we’ve run over the years have been summer bootcamps aimed at grade or subject readiness ahead of fall, like our powerful 2nd, 3rd and 6th grade math and English summer camps, as well as middle school pre-Algebra, Algebra I, and Geometry intensive bootcamps. We have focused on these grades and subjects because they are often the biggest hurdle grades/subjects as kids progress through elementary and middle school. This summer we’ll be working with students rising into 1st to 8th grades in our half and quarter day summer and boot camps and our afternoon enrichment classes. These camps do a bit of review but focus mainly on exposing our students to the topics, concepts they’ll see in the upcoming school year. We have honed our summer curricular programs to hit the high points with our students to give them a tailored set of materials to have them powerfully armed for the new school year. We can do more in the summer because frankly we’re not competing with school. Kids have more mental space to learn with us, take a few hours in the morning or afternoon a few days a week and really get ahead. Getting ahead has a primary result. Confidence. And confidence is one of the most common things parents who reach out to us want for their children. Confidence backed up by rock solid skills and foundation in literacy and numeracy. We love, love, love getting to play and learn with our students in summer. Join us!

Dr. Alissa Gardenhire is the owner of Best in Class Education Center, named one of the three best tutoring centers in the region by 3 Best Rated dot com. Copyright 2021 © Dr. Alissa Gardenhire and Kids Win, Inc.

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