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Keep kids learning over holidays
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Puzzles and word games will help keep childrens minds in good shape during the holiday break from school. - photo by Stock photo

Don’t let the fun and food of the holidays interfere with your child’s learning. Video games and flashy electronic toys may appeal to many kids, but often don’t work a child’s mind as well as non-electronic games and puzzles. Parents shouldn’t fret, however. There are plenty of toys and games available this holiday season to keep a child’s brain sharp and focused during the break and beyond. Here are some tips to help keep children learning and their brains sharp during the school holidays:
• Keep them problem-solving: Math and problem-solving skills are most likely to be affected by holiday-season brain drain, experts say. There are plenty of games available, however, that will make math and problem solving fun. Provide children with activities like mazes that challenge a player’s problem-solving abilities with numerous paths to choose from and hundreds of barriers to overcome. In addition to being entertaining, such games are valuable tools for cognitive development, encouraging children to exercise their problem-solving, motor and dexterity skills, as well as improving their hand-eye coordination. Experts say these games are just as challenging for adults as they are for children.
• Keep them active: It is widely accepted that there is a link between a healthy body and a healthy brain, so keeping your child’s body fit also will keep the brain fit and reduce the holiday season brain-drain. Physical activity can take place inside with video games that involve moment. Encourage kids to play outside when the weather is nice enough.

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Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer shows her Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. With her are Tom Harris, Ashlee Farris, Brett Berry and Kim Diebold. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016. - photo by Photo provided.

Three reports recently presented scholarships

Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer received the Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016.

Garden Club

The Richmond Hill Garden Club recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Katherine Wood and a $500 scholarship to Carly Vargas, both seniors graduating from Richmond Hill High School.

The awards were presented May 8 during Honors Night at RHHS.

Wood plans to attend Green Mountain College in Vermont and major in environmental studies.

Vargas plans to attend Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, to pursue a degree in either environmental studies or biology.

The garden club awards a $1,000 scholarship annually to a local high school senior who plans to major in a field related to environmental concerns, plants and/or gardening.

This year, due to having two exceptional candidates, the garden club awarded an additional $500 scholarship.

Exchange Club

The Exchange Club of Richmond Hill recently named Caroline Odom as its student of the year.

The club each month during the school year names a student of the month, and the student of the year is chosen from among those winners.

Awards are based on academic performance, community involvement and leadership.

Monthly winners receive $100, with the annual winner getting a $1,000 scholarship.

The Exchange Club has been recognizing students for more than 30 years.

Odom will go on to compete in the Georgia District Exchange Club against students from across the state.

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