{"id":9519,"date":"2024-05-16T07:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:32:52","slug":"summer-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/2024\/05\/16\/summer-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6715 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/files\/2011\/01\/slide-248x300.png\" alt=\"Playground slide\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/>Have you heard of the \u201csummer slide?\u201d It&#8217;s when students lose some of the learning they achieved in the previous school year over the summer break. One way to help your child start off the school year strongly is to encourage them to read over the summer!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountync.gov\/library\/page\/children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henderson County Public Library<\/a> has a summer reading program each year, with fun events and activities that promote reading and learning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnobleinc.com\/our-stores-communities\/summer-reading-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnes and Noble<\/a> has a summer reading program where children can earn free books after completing a summer Reading Journal.<\/li>\n<li>Scholastic has a summer reading home base where kids can read, play games and activities, and earn digital experiences!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imaginationsoup.net\/free-summer-reading-programs-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imagination Soup<\/a> lists many free summer reading programs that are available to you, and fun for your child!<\/li>\n<li>Get access to thousands of e-books from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nckids.overdrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NC Kids Digital Library<\/a> (you can access it through Henderson County Public Library with your student number) and read them on your device at home!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out these opportunities to help your child stay actively learning over the summer, and start the new school year ready to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of the \u201csummer slide?\u201d It&#8217;s when students lose some of the learning they achieved in the previous school year over the summer break. One way to help your child start off the school year strongly is to encourage them to read over the summer! The Henderson County Public Library has a summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9826,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions\/9826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/mar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}