Healthcare PR:
Summer is here. For children, summer is a break from the classroom and a time to play outside, have fun with friends, enjoy family vacations, AND lose an estimated 3 months worth of language arts and math gains they worked so hard to attain the past school year.
According to recent studies at the Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University, the summer break causes a child's brain to actually move in reverse and regress to a lower cognitive state. Known as "brain drain" or the "summer slide" this phenomenon is most detrimental to elementary aged learners and can adversely affect their academic performance later on in high school and college.
In response to these studies and the growing concern from parents and teachers, www.BigIQkids.com has launched the Beat Summer Brain Drain promotion that bundles all the site's award winning e-learning applications into a 3 month unlimited subscription for $29.99.
"As an educator and a parent, I know the summer slide is absolutely preventable. The key is keeping your child engaged and proactively learning during the break. That is why we are offering this affordable summer promotion designed to keep kids intellectually stimulated during their time off," says Debra Marcionette, President of BigIQkids.com.
Emphasizing self-paced learning and the reinforcement of core elementary subject matter to mastery, BigIQkids offers a new educational haven for children who care about academic success, improving their grades and long term knowledge retention with respect to grade appropriate spelling and vocabulary, math facts and US geography.
By setting aside 40-60 minutes per day, children can leverage BigIQkids' award winning e-learning applications to stay mentally sharp during the summer months which will pay big dividends when they go back to school in the fall. "When kids stay in learning mode all summer, the transition back to school in August and September is easy and they do not suffer the cognitive degeneration that unfortunately befalls too many children today," says Debra Marcionette.
Creating a summer totally void of learning is not what children need. BigIQkids is the perfect e-learning platform in the fight against summer brain drain that will balance rest and relaxation with daily online lessons and fun.
