Three
Tips for the Back to School Season
Towards the end of August each and every year, I hear parents
cheering and most kids “booing” that school
is about to start again. This is also the time that a lot
of families begin to stress about how much homework their
child will have, getting ready for tests and hoping their
child earns good grades.
What can you do to help your child get the most out of their
education this year? Here are three tips that I teach to
parents in my seminars and boot camps.
Tip #1 - Children
should go to bed and get up at the same time every day -
seven days a week, 365 days a year. I have never understood
the thinking that because it is summer time, bed time changes
to whenever. Of course there are going to be exceptions
to this rule, and special occasions. What I am saying is
just that - they should be the exception and not the rule.
Tip #2 - Be
involved in your child’s education. It surprises me
the number of times a parent is not able to tell me what
their child is learning in school. The majority of education
should take place at home. Schools are institutions and
they can only do so much. Don’t rely on them as the
single source of your child’s future.
Tip #3 - Go
over all homework, quizzes and tests and have your child
correct any mistakes. Schools are forward based. That means
they do not spend ANY time going over mistakes - they simply
move on to the next topic. If you do not spend time teaching
your child what they missed, they are not going to learn
everything that they should.
These are just three of dozens of tips I have created and
share with parents in my “Back to School” Boot
Camp. I spend two to three hours with parents creating a
blue print for success for them and their child.
Let me know which ones you are going to use.
Best wishes,
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Denny Strecker |
What's
In the Bottle?
You will notice
that we have a new bottle in the school.
This bottle contains
one of the most powerful secrets the world has ever known.
Can you guess what
it is?
The power of giving! Denny Strecker’s Karate has partnered
with Volunteers of America to adopt families in need for Christmas.
Our goal is help as many families as we can - and that is
where the bottle comes in. We are asking each of our families
to donate $1 each time you come to class for the next 2 months.
If everyone in the school participates, we will be able to
raise thousands of dollars to purchase gifts, wrap them and
have them delivered to the families.
Nothing expresses the true meaning of the holidays more than
helping those less fortunate than ourselves.
Acts
of Kindness and Respect
Our Random Acts of Kindness
Program continues to roll along as we get closer to 1 Million
Acts of Kindness. If you would like to join our team, go to
our web site at www.WarrenKarate.com and enter your act today!
With school starting up this month, we are turning our attention
to acts of Respect towards our school teacher. Teachers are
one of the most under appreciated people in American society.
They have one of the most important tasks in the world - educating
our children, but are not given the resources, tools, help
or supplies they need to complete their mission.
The
goal of “Denny Strecker’s Karate” students
is to let teachers know that they are appreciated and respected.
To accomplish that goal, each student is being challenged
to complete 20 acts of Respect for their school teacher during
the month of September.
If you would like to participate, give the school a call at
(586) 573-3881 and say, “I accept your Respect challenge!”
Who’s
That Guy?
Leading the Great
Wall of Knowledge for the month of August was Albert Einstein.
Einstein was a world famous physicist, and gave us a whole
new understanding of the world with his theory of relativity.
Students of all ages this month were introduced to both his
concepts and his quirkiness. Here is some of what we learned
this month:
Sempai Strecker
picked, “PHYSICIST” as her favorite word for the
month of August, and challenged all of the students to not
only spell, “physicist”-- but also say it five
times fast. They really took to the spirit of the challenge,
and some students even went above the challenge and said it
ten times fast. We are really proud of all of our students,
from our Pee Wees (including Alex Jacobs), and Juniors like
Josh Solmayor and David Kumiega, right on up to our Adults!
Lonnie Smith reminded
us that Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and we also
learned that he was named “Man of the Century”
in 1999 by Time Magazine—Lauren Nichols knew that a
century was equal to one hundred years, so he must have been
really important!
Of course, one
of the favorite interesting facts about Einstein was that
he didn’t really like to wear socks—a fact that
Nolan Smith was fond of reminding us in class. Another favorite
observation was Einstein’s famous hairstyle, which many
of the boys in class, like Dylan Ring, tried to emulate after
a good warm-up. We didn’t see any mustaches, though!
By the end of
the month, each of the students learned that E=mc2, and some
examples of what the equation is used for. Students (like
Kyra Berry who is starting the 2nd grade) will be able to
share a lot with their teachers this month when they are asked,
“What did you do over the summer?”
As always, it was great to see the students learning and getting
into the theme of the month—keep reading next month
to learn about our next person on the Great Wall of Knowledge.
Ha
Ha Ha!
Three mathematicians
were walking down to the railway station one day, deep in
conversation about mathematics. They were so absorbed in what
they were talking about that as they approached the station,
they failed to hear the announcement that the train was about
to leave.
However they did
notice when the train started to pull away from the platform.
Alarmed, they started to run after the train, and eventually
two of them managed to scramble on board.
A station porter
noticed the remaining man looking glum. "Never mind",
he said, "Two out of three isn't bad."
"But you
don't understand," replied the mathematician, "they
only came to see me off."
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