What do you do on hols? Feel I'm not giving them enough opportunities

Hey teacher - leave those kids alone!



Children learn many things by experience, by participating, by watching. Getting my dc to say hello/goodbye in foreign language is lovely. Handing over money in a shop, helping pack a bag, working out foreign words for rheir favourite ice cream. Going on the ferry - the process, the tickets, the engine and how powerful it could/should/might be.

Don't forget children aren't (necesarily) passive things that just bob along through life like frogspawn on a pond.

So far my 6yo has learnt how to meet new people in his summer camp (just 4 hours/day), just learnt to swim by going to the beach (free!), he's counting money to buy a chupa chup, he draws and colours and Legos and goes a bit cardboard box mad in his less organised time at home (Lidl/Aldi great for their big cage of dufferent-shaped boxes).

In a very waffly way, imho, learning stuff through doing and experiencing and seeing is just as useful as books.

We went to a museum last year ds was 5.5yo. I wanted to see the oldest skeleton if early human (about 40, 000 years old). I have a nice big fancy camera but also a small handbag-sized one which i lent to ds. He proceeded to take some crap interesting photos as we went around - a cavebear skeleton, model cave people, me under some massive oryx antlers (or whatever they were!). And then we found the old skeleton - he was speechless! We bought a piece of (fake) flint rock used for skinning animals and making arrows - he still has it and still talks about the Oldest Man. But... The visit was quite disorganised - point click, read a bit, point click. I'm under no illusion that he'd have looked around a museum like an adult does.

We 'll visit castles cos he loves running around grounds and looking at canons and anything that looks remotely like a jail

Your children will be picki g up things and ideas and memories from random places. Let them have a lovely month or so of relaxing.

Wiw that was long

Mine just needs to chill out to be honest and I'm just going with the flow. I do worry about enrichment usually but he just wants to relax. Lots of water fountain s, beaches that sort of thing.