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Summer Success Holes book project

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Channel: Stillwater Area Public Schools · 2015 · Education

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Comic books and cartoons make summer learning fun

The goal was to have fun while learning – and that’s just what they did. Elementary students enrolled in the district’s Summer Success program spent three weeks in July doing school in a completely different way.

“It was really fun and everyone was excited to be there,” said Nichole Miller, a Summer Success teacher. “The students got to do things differently than they do doing the school year. It was fast-paced and kids really enjoyed it.”

The summer learning program was designed to help first through sixth grade students develop skills in math and reading, and catch up with their peers. Classes were high-energy and integrated the use of technology to help motivate students. The kids worked with their peers to create projects – from comic books to animated movies – to demonstrate what they learned.

Here is an example from sixth graders who read the book, Holes, and created book reviews using digital comic book images they created using an online software called Comic Life.

Summer Success is part of the district’s Targeted Services program, which supports students who learn in different ways or at a difference pace than their peers. Targeted Services provides additional time during the summer, as well as before or after school during the school year, for students to learn in new and fun ways and in smaller learning environments.

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