You may not think of summertime as being a good time to pick up some tutoring hours. But you just might be surprised. Even though kids are out of school for the summer and have holidays booked, parents are often looking for things for their kids to do while not on holidays.
Summertime is a good time to book some day-camps. You could take on 3 or 4 students, about the same age, and plan activities for a day. Then take bookings for a week at a time. For 5 days you would have to keep the kids occupied from 9-4, or whatever hours you decide. If you have them bring their own lunches, it would save on expenses for you and also you could take them on a small hike or trip to the park to enjoy their lunch.
For a math day-camp, you could have a cooking activity one day. Make sure the recipe has lots of fractions in it, like 1/2 cup, 1/4 tsp, etc. Before the cooking begins, have the students make all the adjustments needed to double the recipe, or halve the recipe. Then when they have successfully completed their sheets, they can cook and eat the recipe.
Another fun math day-camp activity is a geometry shape scavenger hunt. Take the kids to a park, public library, department store or somewhere that there are lots of opportunities to find geometrical shapes. Have them write down what shape they found, where they found it, and then put all the students’ information together to make the next day’s fun activity sheet. For example, Stacie found an ice cream cone shape, Allen found a hexagon, Luke found a cube, etc. Use their first names and the shapes they found to write a sheet of geometry problems for them to figure out. Print it out on the computer and use pictures if possible. Make a copy for each and have them solve the problems.
The worksheet you made in the activity of the previous paragraph can be put into a binder which they get to take home. Buy some inexpensive binders before the camp starts. One of the activities could involve decorating the binder. All the worksheets you use throughout the week go into this binder and then you give it to them on the last day to take home. This serves two purposes. First, it helps them remember the lessons you taught them. Secondly (this is very important), it gives the parents something to look at so they know their money was well-spent!
Together with the binder, you could take pictures throughout the week and put them together on a CD to give the kids on the last day. Part of the CD could be a power point presentation each child has made about all they have learned about math and the fun they had doing it while they were at math-camp with you.
Keep reading for more ideas on how to be a tutor and do fun things with your students.
Wow this is a great idea. Teachers or University students are always looking for ways to make money over the summer, when they are not in school. In fact it also works well for struggling students who need the extra help to get ahead, before the next school year starts.
You know, it is common to see summer sports camps all over the place throughout the summer. There's no reason who there can't be math camps or science camps. The camps could be very fun as well as giving the students a chance to catch up or work ahead. There's no reason they can't be a lot of fun, either.
Depending on which subject you choose to do a summer tutoring camp with, you could have them run 1 or 2 weeks at a time. That way lots of students could cycle through over the entire summer.
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