summer break...online courses and lessons?

[Anonymous]

So my DD is almost finished with Kindergarten and I'm thinking about how she can continue to learn over the summer break. Specifically, I'm interested in how the Internet could be used in a constructive way to enrich and engage her during the months she is not in school. DH and I are part of Gen X and so the benefits of online summer learning\ lessons were obviously not available to us in kindergarten. DD is signed up for a few lessons in the community so she can have social interaction and direct feedback from an instructor.

Can anyone here share online courses/lessons that are targeted to early elementary students? Is there anything similar to coursers for children?

[Anonymous]

Coursera.

[Anonymous]

And I know I can just google around for this info but I really just wanted to hear from live people about this...

[Anonymous]

I like Todo Math at that age.

[Anonymous]

Talk to her kindergarten teacher and ask for ideas. That should be your first stop--teachers often are surprisingly overlooked by us parents when we're wondering about tools to use at home. (But try to be open-minded if the teacher has reasons to dissuade you from doing too much over the summer for such a young student.)

Also if your child's school has a computer lab and the kindergarteners had computer time each week, ask the instructor who runs the computer learning lab for ideas on programs and online tools.

[Anonymous]

A bit of a tangent, but typing. Get your kid a typing game and teach him/her proper technique. This will pay off greatly!