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Get Ready for Grade 9

Are you worried about the transition from grade 8 to grade 9? Do you want to spend the summer helping your teen get ready for grade 9 but still want them to have fun? There’s a lot of stress facing parents when it comes to their teen entering high school and even more so with the pandemic learning loss that they’ve likely experienced. So how can you help your teen get ready for grade 9 while avoiding summer learning loss and trying to catch up on pandemic learning loss?

Help your teen get ready for grade 9.

The unfortunate truth is that many children and teens struggle to catch up after enduring two years of pandemic learning. Researchers and educators share their concerns for kids who have slipped through the crack due to pandemic learning. A more significant problem is the added impact of summer learning loss. Knowing that over the summer, many teens will lose 2.6 months of math skills, two months of reading skills and one month of overall learning.

Click here to learn more about Summer Learning Loss.

Knowing these statistics, it can be hard not to stress your teen’s education. Regardless, you must avoid worrying about your teens learning during the summer months. Of course, you want your teen to learn, stay on track and have all the opportunities in life that they deserve. But constantly worrying about that won’t help you or your teen.

So what can you do to help your teen catch up on all the learning they have likely lost? While also aiming to stay on track and not lose even more learning skills during the summer?

Get ready for grade 9 by simplifying the process.

Try to avoid overthinking your teen’s summer learning because we all know that overthinking adds more stress than necessary. You don’t need elaborate plans to prepare your teen for grade nine. This will only lead to you and your teen feeling stressed and exhausted while dealing with that dreaded feeling of not getting enough done.

When preparing your teen for grade nine, what is the best and easiest way to simplify summer learning? Use the Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 9 book! Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 9 was created to help your teen stay on track with their essential learning. What’s better is that this program will save you time and money as you won’t be searching and spending money on a homeschooling curriculum to try to fit your summer learning needs.

What’s inside the Summer Schooling: Ready for Grade 9 workbook?

We want you and your teen to have an enjoyable summer without the stress of trying to complete extra tasks. The Summer Schoolio books have been designed in a simple format, without the mountain of overwhelming tasks. This helps your teen stay on track with their learning.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 9 book combines the best homeschooling curriculum concepts to give you and your teen a unique solution to help your teen get ready for grade 9. We’ve combined the homeschooling writing curriculum, homeschooling language arts curriculum and homeschooling math curriculum to bring you and your teen a workbook to help practice essential skills to stay on track.

Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 9 overview:

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 9 workbook is filled with learning materials that aren’t just educational; they’re fun too! This combination is an excellent resource to help your teen get ready for grade 9. Created for six weeks of learning, your teen will have the opportunity to learn and refresh different learning concepts each week.

Week one includes:

The Summer Schoolio week includes three days of simple learning that won’t be overwhelming or take too long to complete.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Paraphrase/Summarize – and Math – Number Sense.
Then day two has Weekly Writing and Math – Number Sense.
On day three, your teen will work on Weekly Writing – Scrapbooking – and Math – Number Sense.

Week two includes:

The second week of Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 9 is similar to week one, just switching up learning concepts.

During week two, your teen will have Weekly Writing – Persuasive Writing – and Math – Number Sense on day one.
On Day Two, they will have Weekly Writing and Number Sense.
Then on day three, they will have Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Number Sense.

Week three includes:

During the third week of the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 9 book, your teen will be working on:

Weekly Writing-Expository/Argumentative – and Math – Algebra on day one.
Then on day two, your child will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Algebra.
Followed by day three, which is Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Algebra

Week four includes:

When your teen is working on week four, day one, they will do Weekly Writing – Literary Devices/Poetry – and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Then on day two, they will be working on Weekly Writing and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Finally, on day three, they will get to work on their scrapbook for Weekly Writing and the final day of Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.

Week five includes:

Day one of week five is Weekly Writing – Formal Letter/Speech – and Math – Data Management.
Then on day two, they will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Data Management.
Followed by day three, which is Scrapbooking for Weekly Writing and Data Management for Math

Week six includes:

The first day of week six focuses on Weekly Writing – Essay Development/Descriptive – and Math – Financial Literacy.
The second day is all about Weekly Writing and Financial Literacy for Math.
Then on the third day, your teen can work on their scrapbook again for Weekly Writing and enjoy their final Financial Literacy assignment.

A daily repetitive learning cycle with refreshing concepts helps your teen stay interested with a structured plan for summer learning. This technique will help your teen master essential math, writing and reading concepts for grade nine.

Get ready for grade 9 The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 9 workbook includes a sample schedule/calendar that looks like this

Monday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Tuesday: Weekly Writing Day 1, Math Day 1, Read a Book or Chapter.

Wednesday: Weekly Writing Day 2, Math Day 2, Read a Book or Chapter.

Thursday: Weekly Writing Day 3, Math Day 3, Read a Book or Chapter.

Friday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Helping your teen stay on track and up-to-date with their learning while avoiding summer learning loss and preparing for the next grade doesn’t need to be an overwhelming and stressful task. It also doesn’t need to take much daily time to succeed. The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 9 book helps your child keep up with their learning needs, refresh, and not become overwhelmed by too much information crammed into one day.

Get ready for grade 9!

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Prepare Your Pre-Teen for Grade 8

How can you prepare your pre-teen for grade 8? Make sure you still let them have that fun summer that they want but also aim to keep them on track, catch them up from pandemic learning loss, avoid summer learning loss and prepare them for grade eight? It’s a huge task, but it doesn’t have to be complicated.

Avoid summer learning loss and prepare your pre-teen for grade 8.

Let’s face it; many kids are struggling to catch up after enduring two years of pandemic learning. Researchers and educators are all stating their concerns for kids that have perhaps slipped through the cracks due to pandemic learning. A more significant problem is the added impact of summer learning loss. Knowing that over the summer, many children will lose 2.6 months of math skills, two months of reading skills and one month of overall learning.

Click here to learn more about Summer Learning Loss.

Knowing those statistics, it can be hard not to stress about your pre-teen’s education. But, the most important thing you can do is avoid worrying about your pre-teen’s learning during the summer months. Of course, you want your child to learn, stay on track and have all the opportunities in life that they deserve. But constantly worrying about that won’t help you or your pre-teen.

So what can you do to help your pre-teen catch up on all the learning they have lost? While also aiming to stay on track and not lose even more learning skills during the summer?

Simplify learning when you prepare your pre-teen for grade eight.

Try to avoid overthinking your pre-teen’s summer learning because we all know that overthinking adds more stress than necessary. You don’t need elaborate plans to prepare your child for grade eight. This will only lead to you, and your child feeling stressed and exhausted while dealing with that dreaded feeling of not getting enough done.

When preparing your pre-teen for grade eight, what is the best and easiest way to simplify summer learning? Use the Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 8 book! Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 8 was created to help your child stay on track with their essential learning. What’s better is that this program will save you time and money as you won’t be searching and spending money on a homeschooling curriculum to try to fit your summer learning needs.

What’s inside the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 8 workbook?

We want you and your pre-teen to have an enjoyable summer without the stress of trying to complete extra tasks. The Summer Schoolio books have been designed in a simple format, without the mountain of overwhelming tasks. This helps your pre-teen stay on track with their learning.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 8 book combines the best homeschooling curriculum concepts to give you and your child a unique solution to help prepare your pre-teen for grade eight. We’ve combined the homeschooling writing curriculum, homeschooling language arts curriculum and homeschooling math curriculum to bring you and your child a workbook to help practice essential skills to stay on track.

Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 8 overview:

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 8 workbook is filled with learning materials that aren’t just educational; they’re fun too! This combination is an excellent resource to help prepare your pre-teen for grade 8. Created for six weeks of learning, your pre-teen will have the opportunity to learn and refresh different learning concepts each week.

Week one includes:

The Summer Schoolio week includes three days of simple learning that won’t be overwhelming or take too long to complete.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Friendly Letters – and Math – Number Sense.
Then day two has Weekly Writing and Math – Number Sense.
On day three, your pre-teen will work on Weekly Writing – Scrapbooking – and Math – Number Sense.

Week two includes:

The second week of Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 8 is similar to week one, just switching up learning concepts.

During week two, your pre-teen will have Weekly Writing – Writing Fiction – and Math – Number Sense on day one.
On Day Two, they will have Weekly Writing and Number Sense.
Then on day three, they will have Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Number Sense.

Week three includes:

During the third week of the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 8 book, your pre-teen will be working on:

Weekly Writing – Reviewing a Book – and Math – Algebra on day one.
Then on day two, your child will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Algebra.
Followed by day three, which is Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Algebra.

Week four includes:

When your pre-teen is working on week four, day one, they will do Weekly Writing – Writing Non-Fiction – and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Then on day two, they will be working on Weekly Writing and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Finally, on day three, they will get to work on their scrapbook for Weekly Writing and the final day of Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.

Week five includes:

Day one of week five is Weekly Writing – Poetry – and Math – Data Management.
Then on day two, they will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Data Management.
Followed by day three, which is Scrapbooking for Weekly Writing and Data Management for Math.

Week six includes:

The first day of week six focuses on Weekly Writing – Summarizing – and Math – Financial Literacy.
The second day is all about Weekly Writing and Financial Literacy for Math.
Then, your child can work on their scrapbook again for Weekly Writing and enjoy their final Financial Literacy assignment.

A daily repetitive learning cycle with refreshing concepts helps your pre-teen stay interested with a structured plan for summer learning. This technique will help your pre-teen master essential math, writing and reading concepts for grade eight.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 8 workbook includes a sample schedule/calendar that looks like this:

Monday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Tuesday: Weekly Writing Day 1, Math Day 1, Read a Book or Chapter.

Wednesday: Weekly Writing Day 2, Math Day 2, Read a Book or Chapter.

Thursday: Weekly Writing Day 3, Math Day 3, Read a Book or Chapter.

Friday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Helping your pre-teen stay on track and up-to-date with their learning while avoiding summer learning loss and preparing for the next grade doesn’t need to be an overwhelming and stressful task. It also doesn’t need to take much daily time to succeed. The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 8 book helps your child keep up with their learning needs, refresh, and not become overwhelmed by too much information crammed into one day.

Prepare your pre-teen for grade eight.

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Prepare Your Child for Grade Seven

What’s the best way to prepare your child for grade seven? Do so without causing them tremendous stress and frustration from doing too much work on fun summer days? What’s the easiest way to prevent summer learning loss, prepare your child for grade seven and let them have a fun summer?

Prepare your child for grade seven while avoiding summer learning loss.

The most important thing you can do is avoid getting stressed about your child’s learning during the summer months. As parents, we want our children to learn, stay on track and have all the opportunities in life that they deserve. But that constant worry can become distracting and consuming.

It can be tough to avoid worrying about their education when we think of all the learning they’ve lost due to pandemic learning. Heading into summer, we can become overwhelmed by the thought of summer learning loss on top of pandemic learning loss. Especially when we see statistics about summer learning loss, like that 2.6 months of math skills, two months of reading skills and one month of overall learning are lost due to summer learning loss.

Click here to learn more about Summer Learning Loss.

So what can you do to help your child catch up on all the learning they have lost? While also aiming to stay on track and not lose even more learning skills during the summer?

General learning skills like math, reading and writing are essential for your child to practice to develop correctly continually; this is especially true during the summer.

Simplify learning when you prepare your child for grade seven.

Try to avoid overthinking your child’s summer learning because we all know that overthinking adds more stress than necessary. You don’t need elaborate plans to prepare your child for grade seven. This will only lead to you, and your child feeling stressed and exhausted while dealing with that dreaded feeling of not getting enough done.

When preparing your child for grade seven, what is the best and easiest way to simplify summer learning? Use the Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 7 book! Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 7 was created to help your child stay on track with their essential learning. What’s better is that this program will save you time and money as you won’t be searching and spending money on a homeschooling curriculum to try to fit your summer learning needs.

Take a look inside the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 7 workbook.

We want you to have an enjoyable summer without the stress of trying to complete extra tasks. The Summer Schoolio books have been designed in a simple format, without the mountain of overwhelming tasks. This helps your child stay on track with their learning.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 7 book combines the best homeschooling curriculum concepts to give you and your child a unique solution to help prepare your child for grade seven. We’ve combined the homeschooling writing curriculum, homeschooling language arts curriculum and homeschooling math curriculum to bring you and your child a workbook to help practice essential skills to stay on track.

Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 7 overview.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 7 workbook is filled with learning materials that aren’t just educational; they’re fun too! This combination is an excellent resource to help prepare your child for grade seven. Created for six weeks of learning, your child will have the opportunity to learn and refresh different learning concepts each week.

Week one includes:

The Summer Schoolio week includes three days of simple learning that won’t be overwhelming or take too long to complete.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Poetry – and Math – Number Sense.
Then day two has Weekly Writing and Math – Number Sense.
On day three, your child will work on Weekly Writing – Scrapbooking – and Math – Number Sense.

Week two includes:

The second week of Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 7 is similar to week one, just switching up learning concepts.

During week two, your child will have Weekly Writing – Correspondence – and Math – Number Sense on day one.
On Day Two, they will have Weekly Writing and Number Sense.
Then on day three, they will have Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Number Sense.

Week three includes:

During the third week of the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 7 book, your child will be working on:

Weekly Writing – Writing Suspense – and Math – Algebra on day one.
Then on day two, your child will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Algebra.
Followed by day three, which is Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Algebra.

Week four includes:

When your child is working on week four,

Day one, they will do Weekly Writing – Speech Writing – and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Then on day two, they will be working on Weekly Writing and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Finally, on day three, they will get to work on their scrapbook for Weekly Writing and the final day of Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.

Week five includes:

Day one of week five is Weekly Writing – Descriptive Writing – and Math – Data Management.
Then on day two, they will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Data Management.
Followed by day three, which is Scrapbooking for Weekly Writing and Data Management for Math.

Week six includes:

The first day of week six focuses on Weekly Writing – News Articles – and Math – Financial Literacy.
The second day is all about Weekly Writing and Financial Literacy for Math.
Then on the third day, your child can work on their scrapbook again for Weekly Writing and enjoy their final Financial Literacy assignment.

A daily repetitive learning cycle with refreshing learning concepts helps your child stay interested with a structured plan for summer learning. This technique will help your child master essential math, writing and reading concepts for grade seven.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 7 workbook includes a sample schedule/calendar that looks like this:

Monday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Tuesday: Weekly Writing Day 1, Math Day 1, Read a Book or Chapter.

Wednesday: Weekly Writing Day 2, Math Day 2, Read a Book or Chapter.

Thursday: Weekly Writing Day 3, Math Day 3, Read a Book or Chapter.

Friday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Helping your child stay on track and up-to-date with their learning while avoiding summer learning loss and preparing for the next grade doesn’t need to be an overwhelming and stressful task. It also doesn’t need to take much daily time to succeed. The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 7 book helps your child keep up with their learning needs, refresh, and not become overwhelmed by too much information crammed into one day.

Prepare your child for grade seven.

Click for your copy of Summer schoolio

Prepare Your Child for Grade Six

Are you wondering the best way to prepare your child for grade six? Doing so without causing them tremendous stress and frustration from doing too much work on fun summer days? What’s the easiest way to prevent summer learning loss, prepare your child for grade six and let them have a fun summer?

Avoid summer learning loss while you prepare your child for grade six.

Click here to learn more about Summer Learning Loss.

So what can you do to help your child catch up on all the learning they have lost? While also aiming to stay on track and not lose even more learning skills during the summer?

General learning skills like math, reading and writing are essential for your child to practice to develop correctly continually; this is especially true during the summer.

Prepare your child for grade six by simplifying learning.

Try to avoid overthinking your child’s summer learning because we all know that overthinking adds more stress than necessary. You don’t need elaborate plans to prepare your child for grade six. This will only lead to you, and your child feeling stressed and exhausted while dealing with that dreaded feeling of not getting enough done.

When preparing your child for grade six, is the best and easiest way to simplify summer learning? Use the Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 6 book! Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 6 was created to help your child stay on track with their essential learning. What’s better is that this program will save you time and money as you won’t be searching and spending money on a homeschooling curriculum to try to fit your summer learning needs.

What’s inside the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 6 workbook?

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 6 book combines the best homeschooling curriculum concepts to bring you and your child a unique solution to help you prepare your child for grade six. We’ve combined the homeschooling writing curriculum, homeschooling language arts curriculum and homeschooling math curriculum to bring you and your child a workbook to help practice essential skills to stay on track.

Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 6 overview:

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 6 workbook is filled with learning materials that aren’t just educational; they’re fun too! This combination is an excellent resource to help prepare your child for grade six. Created for six weeks of learning, your child will have the opportunity to learn and refresh different learning concepts each week.

Week one includes:

The Summer Schoolio week includes three days of simple learning that won’t be overwhelming or take too long to complete.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Writing Fiction – and Math – Number Sense.
Then day two has Weekly Writing and Math – Number Sense.
On day three, your child will work on Weekly Writing – Scrapbooking – and Math – Number Sense.

Week two includes:

The second week of Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 6 is similar to week one, just switching up learning concepts.

On day one, week two, your child will have Weekly Writing – Writing Letters – and Math – Number Sense.
On Day Two, they will have Weekly Writing and Number Sense.
Then on day three, they will have Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Number Sense.

Week three includes:

During the third week of the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 6 book, your child will be working on:

Day one, Weekly Writing – Writing Poetry – and Math – Algebra.
Then on day two, your child will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Algebra.
Followed by day three, which is Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Algebra.

Week four includes:

When your child is working on week four, day one, they will do Weekly Writing – Descriptive Writing – and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Then on day two, they will be working on Weekly Writing and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Finally, on day three, they will get to work on their scrapbook for Weekly Writing and the final day of Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.

Week five includes:

Day one of week five is Weekly Writing – Writing a Book Report – and Math – Data Management.
Then on day two, they will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Data Management.
Followed by day three, which is Scrapbooking for Weekly Writing and Data Management for Math.

Week six includes:

The first day of week six focuses on Weekly Writing – Writing Non-Fiction – and Math – Financial Literacy.
The second day is all about Weekly Writing and Financial Literacy for Math.
Then, your child can work on their scrapbook again for Weekly Writing and enjoy their final Financial Literacy assignment.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 6 workbook includes a sample schedule/calendar that looks like this:

Monday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Tuesday: Weekly Writing Day 1, Math Day 1, Read a Book or Chapter.

Wednesday: Weekly Writing Day 2, Math Day 2, Read a Book or Chapter.

Thursday: Weekly Writing Day 3, Math Day 3, Read a Book or Chapter.

Friday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Trying to help your child stay on track and up-to-date with their learning while avoiding summer learning loss and preparing for the next grade doesn’t need to be an overwhelming and stressful task. It also doesn’t need to take a massive chunk of daily time to succeed. The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 6 book helps your child keep up with their learning needs, refresh, and not become overwhelmed by too much information crammed into one day.

Prepare your child for grade six.

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Prepare Your Child for Grade Five

Have you been trying to figure out the best way to prepare your child for grade five without overwhelming them? And still, allowing them to have fun all summer long? Cramming curriculum into each day during the summer might prevent summer learning loss, but it also might overwhelm your child. So, what’s the solution? Should you fill up their days with learning and homeschool curriculum, or should you let them have fun all summer and ignore books and learning?

Prepare your child for grade five while avoiding summer learning loss.

The first step is to let go of all that stress and worry. As parents, we can get distracted by all these worries about trying to ensure our children are doing their best and getting all the opportunities in life that they deserve. There’s this constant worry that we aren’t doing enough, causing our children to struggle. This is especially true when we think of the impacts of pandemic learning on our children’s education.

Which makes our goal to avoid summer learning loss so much more important. Bouncing between our attempts at fixing pandemic learning loss and trying to prevent summer learning loss can be an exhausting endeavour. Especially when we see statistics about summer learning loss, like that 2.6 months of math skills, two months of reading skills and one month of overall learning are lost for most children each summer.

Click here to learn more about Summer Learning Loss.

So what can you do to help your child catch up on all the learning they have lost? While also aiming to stay on track and not lose even more learning skills during the summer?

General learning skills like math, reading and writing are essential for your child to practice to develop correctly continually; this is especially true during the summer.

Simplify learning; that’s the best way to prepare your child for grade five.

You must avoid overthinking your child’s summer learning, as we know that overthinking adds more stress than good. The assumption that you must have some elaborate plan to be able to prepare your child for grade five is false. It will only lead to you and your child feeling exhausted and never feeling like you’ve done enough.

The easiest way to simplify summer learning when preparing your child for grade five is to use the Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 5 book! Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 5 book was created to help your child stay on track with essential learning. Which will also save you time and money searching for a homeschooling curriculum that fits your summer learning needs.

Take a look inside the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 5 workbook!

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 5 book combines the best homeschooling curriculum concepts to bring you and your child a unique solution to help you prepare your child for grade five. We’ve combined the homeschooling writing curriculum, homeschooling language arts curriculum and homeschooling math curriculum to bring you and your child a workbook to help practice essential skills to stay on track.

Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 5 overview:

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 5 workbook is filled with learning materials that aren’t just educational; they’re fun too! This combination is an excellent resource to help prepare your child for grade five. Created for six weeks of learning, your child will have the opportunity to learn and refresh different learning concepts each week.

Week one includes:

The Summer Schoolio week includes three days of simple learning that won’t be overwhelming or take too long to complete.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Friendly Letters – and Math – Number Sense.
Then day two has Weekly Writing and Math – Number Sense.
On day three, your child will work on Weekly Writing – Scrapbooking – and Math – Number Sense.

Week two includes:

The second week of Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 5 is similar to week one, just switching up learning concepts.

On day one of week two, your child will have Weekly Writing – Writing Fiction – and Math – Number Sense.
On Day Two, they will have Weekly Writing and Number Sense.
Then on day three, they will have Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Number Sense.

Week three includes:

During the third week of the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 5 book, your child will be working on:

Weekly Writing – Reviewing a Book – and Math – Algebra on day one.
Then on day two, your child will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Algebra.
Followed by day three, which is Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Algebra.

Week four includes:

When your child is working on week four, day one, they will do Weekly Writing – Writing Non-Fiction – and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Then on day two, they will be working on Weekly Writing and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Finally, on day three, they will get to work on their scrapbook for Weekly Writing and the final day of Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.

Week five includes:

Day one of week five is Weekly Writing – Poetry – and Math – Data Management.
Then on day two, they will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Data Management.
Followed by day three, which is Scrapbooking for Weekly Writing and Data Management for Math.

Week six includes:

The first day of week six focuses on Weekly Writing – Summarizing – and Math – Financial Literacy.
The second day is all about Weekly Writing and Financial Literacy for Math.
Then, your child can work on their scrapbook again for Weekly Writing day three, and enjoy their final Financial Literacy assignment.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 5 workbook includes a sample schedule/calendar that looks like this:

Monday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Tuesday: Weekly Writing Day 1, Math Day 1, Read a Book or Chapter.

Wednesday: Weekly Writing Day 2, Math Day 2, Read a Book or Chapter.

Thursday: Weekly Writing Day 3, Math Day 3, Read a Book or Chapter.

Friday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Trying to help your child stay on track and up-to-date with their learning while avoiding summer learning loss and preparing for the next grade doesn’t need to be an overwhelming and stressful task. It also doesn’t need to take a massive chunk of time every day to succeed. The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 5 book helps your child keep up with their learning needs, refresh, and not become overwhelmed by too much information crammed into one day.

Prepare your child for grade five.

Get your copy of Summer schoolio

Prepare Your Child for Grade Four

Are you worried that your child isn’t prepared for grade four or that they might lose too much knowledge due to summer learning loss? What’s the best way to keep your child on track with their learning during the summer? Should you crowd their day with learning time and curriculum? Or allow them to have fun and easy-going summer? What’s the best way to prepare your child for grade four?

Avoid summer learning loss while trying to prepare your child for grade four.

First things first, don’t stress so much about it. We get it; as parents, we often feel the need to ensure our children do their very best and get all the best opportunities in life. We worry that we aren’t doing enough, causing our child to struggle more and more with summer learning loss and pandemic learning loss.

Trying to avoid summer learning loss when you’ve already been worried about pandemic learning loss can become an exhausting task. Especially when you see statistics about summer learning loss that 2.6 months of math skills, two months of reading skills and one more of overall learning are lost each summer for most children.

Learn more about Summer Learning Loss.

What can you do to help your child catch up on all the learning loss they’ve experienced, stay on track, and not lose every more learning skill during the summer?

Math, reading and writing are general learning skills that are essential for your child to continually practice to develop correctly; this is especially true during the summer.

What’s the best way to prepare your child for grade four? The first step is to simplify learning.

You must avoid overthinking their summer learning as that will only lead to chronic stress. Many of us assume that to prepare your child for grade four, you must have some elaborate plan. Which leads to you being exhausted and never feeling like you’ve done enough.

One of the easiest ways to simplify summer learning when you are aiming to prepare your child for grade three is to use the Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 4 book! The Summer Schoolio book was created to help your child excel in grade four. Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 4 book helps your child stay on track with essential learning. And this will also save you hundreds of dollars and time searching for a homeschool curriculum suitable for your goal of helping your child prepare for grade four.

What’s inside the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 4 workbook?

An enjoyable summer without the stress of trying to complete extra tasks is so important. And the Summer Schoolio books have been designed to be simple; without the mountain of overwhelming tasks, your child can stay on pace with their learning.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 4 book combines the best homeschooling curriculum concepts to bring you and your child a unique solution to help you prepare your child for grade four. We’ve combined the homeschooling writing curriculum, homeschooling language arts curriculum and the homeschooling math curriculum to bring you and your child a book to help practice essential skills to stay on track.

Here’s an overview of Schoolio Ready for Grade 4:

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 4 workbook is loaded with materials that aren’t just educational; they’re fun too! This combination is an excellent resource to help prepare your child for grade four. Created for six weeks of learning, your child will have the opportunity to learn and refresh different learning concepts each week.

Week one includes:

The Summer Schoolio week includes three days of simple learning that won’t be overwhelming or take too long to complete.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Persuasive Writing – and Math – Number Sense.
Then day two has Weekly Writing and Math – Number Sense.
On day three, your child will work on Weekly Writing – Scrapbooking – and Math – Number Sense.

Week two includes:

The second week of Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 4 is similar to week one, just switching up learning concepts.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Poetry – and Math – Number Sense.
On Day Two, they will have Weekly Writing and Number Sense.
Day three, they will have Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Number Sense.

Week three includes:

During the third week of the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 4 book, your child will be working on:

Day one, Weekly Writing – Writing Non-Fiction – and Math – Algebra.
On day two, your child will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Algebra.
Followed by day three, which is Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Algebra.

Week four includes:

When your child is working on week four:

Day one, they will do Weekly Writing – Comic Book – and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
On day two, they will be working on Weekly Writing and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Finally, on day three, they will get to work on their scrapbook for Weekly Writing and the final day of Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.

Week five includes:

Day one of week five is Weekly Writing – Writing an Email – and Math – Data Management.
Then on day two, they will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Data Management.
Followed by day three, which is Scrapbooking for Weekly Writing and Data Management for Math.

Week six includes:

The first day of week six focuses on Weekly Writing – Box Review – and Math – Financial Literacy.
The second day is all about Weekly Writing and Financial Literacy for Math.
Then, your child can work on their scrapbook again for Weekly Writing and enjoy their final Financial Literacy assignment.

The daily work is repetitive but also ever-changing to help your child stay interested with a structured plan for summer learning. This technique helps your child master essential math, writing and reading concepts for grade four.

A sample schedule/calendar will be included with the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 4 workbook. It sounds like this:

Monday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Tuesday: Weekly Writing Day 1, Math Day 1, Read a Book or Chapter.

Wednesday: Weekly Writing Day 2, Math Day 2, Read a Book or Chapter.

Thursday: Weekly Writing Day 3, Math Day 3, Read a Book or Chapter.

Friday: Read a Book or Chapter.

The process of trying to help your child stay on track and up-to-date with their learning while avoiding summer learning loss and preparing for the next grade doesn’t need to be an overwhelming and stressful task. It also doesn’t need to take a massive chunk of time every day in order for it to be successful. The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 4 book helps your child keep up with their learning needs, refresh, and not become overwhelmed by too much information crammed into one day.

Prepare your child for grade four.

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Prepare Your Child for Grade Three

Do you feel like your child is prepared for grade three? During the summer, are you planning to help your child stay on track with their learning or have a free-for-all summer with no sign of curriculum? Do you want to ensure your child stays on track but not overwhelm them with too much ‘work’? Let us help you with all your questions on how to prepare your child for grade three.

Preparing your child for grade three while aiming to avoid summer learning loss.

The first thing you need to do when aiming to prepare your child for grade three while avoiding summer learning loss? Don’t stress so much! As parents, we often worry about ensuring our children are on track with their learning. That worry can become more and more of a concern when we think about pandemic learning loss.
How to avoid summer learning loss on top of pandemic learning loss is another concern facing parents, especially when they hear that most children lose 2.6 months of math skills, two months of reading skills and the equivalent of one month of overall learning each summer.
You can learn more about Summer Learning Loss here.
So, how can we help our children catch up on all the learning loss they’ve experienced, stay on track and not lose even more learning skills during the summer?
Reading, writing, math and learning, in general, are essential skills your child must continually practice to develop correctly, especially during the summer.

How to prepare your child for grade three? First, let’s simplify learning.

One thing you absolutely must avoid is overthinking their learning. We often assume that to prepare your child for grade three, you must have elaborate plans, and it has to be a huge, exhausting endeavour when the actual reality is that it can be a simple process.
One of the best ways to simplify their summer learning is to use the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 book! This book was created specifically to help children about to move onto grade three. Using the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 book, your child will stay refreshed and on track with their essential learning. This will also save you hundreds of dollars and time because you won’t be searching for a homeschool curriculum that will still be too much or too little when aiming to prepare your child for grade three.

Take a look inside the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 workbook!

Having an enjoyable summer without the stress of trying to complete extra tasks is essential! This is why our Summer Schoolio books have been designed to be simple. Without the overwhelm of having to complete a mountain of overwhelming tasks.
In the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 book, we have combined the best of our secular homeschooling curriculum concepts to bring you and your child a unique summer learning solution that will prepare your child for grade three. In a fantastic combination of homeschooling writing curriculum, homeschooling language arts curriculum and homeschooling math curriculum, we aim to help your child practice those essential skills to stay on track.

Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 overview:

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 workbook is loaded with materials that aren’t just educational; they’re fun too! This combination is an excellent resource to help prepare your child for grade three. Created for six weeks of learning, your child will have the opportunity to learn and refresh different learning concepts each week.

Week one includes:

The Summer Schoolio week includes three days of simple learning that won’t be overwhelming or take too long to complete.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Writing Fiction – and Math – Number Sense.
Day two has Weekly Writing and Math – Number Sense.
On day three, your child will work on Weekly Writing – Scrapbooking – and Math – Number Sense.

Week two includes:

The second week of Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 is similar to week one, just switching up learning concepts.

During week two, on day one, your child will have Weekly Writing – Autobiography – and Math – Number Sense.
On Day Two, they will have Weekly Writing and Number Sense.
On day three, they will have Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Number Sense.

Week three includes:

During the third week of the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 book, your child will be working on:

Day one, Weekly Writing – Reviewing a Book – and Math – Algebra.
Then on day two, your child will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Algebra.
Followed by day three, which is Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Algebra.

Week four includes:

When your child is working on week four:

Day one, Weekly Writing – Writing Non-Fiction – and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Then on day two, they will be working on Weekly Writing and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
On day three, they will get to work on their scrapbook for Weekly Writing and the final day of Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.

Week five includes:

Day one of week five is Weekly Writing – Poetry – and Math – Data.
Then on day two, they will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Data.
Day three is Scrapbooking for Weekly Writing and Data for Math.

Week six includes:

The first day of week six focuses on Weekly Writing – Summarizing – and Math – Financial Literacy.
The second day is all about Weekly Writing and Financial Literacy for Math.
Then on day three, your child can work on their scrapbook again for Weekly Writing and enjoy their final Financial Literacy assignment.

The schedule and assignments are repetitive but changing to help your child stay structured and interested. This technique helps your child master all the essential math and reading/writing concepts for grade three.

What does a typical week look like using the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 program?

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 book includes a sample schedule/calendar you can follow daily. It translates to:
Monday: Read a Book or Chapter.
Tuesday: Weekly Writing Day 1, Math Day 1, Read a Book or Chapter.
Wednesday: Weekly writing Day 2, Math Day 2, Read a Book or Chapter.
Thursday: Weekly Writing Day 3, Math Day 3, Read a Book or Chapter.
Friday: Read a Book or Chapter.
Keeping your child on track and up-to-date with their learning doesn’t need to be an overwhelming and stressful process. And you don’t need to take a massive chunk of time each time to accomplish it. The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 3 book helps your child keep up with their learning needs, refresh and not become overwhelmed by too much information crammed into one day.

Prepare your child for grade three.

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Prepare Your Child for Grade Two

Is your child prepared for grade two? Should you allow your child to have the summer off to play and avoid books altogether? Or should you cram in as much extra curriculum work as possible to ensure they’re prepared and ready to excel in grade two? We can help you with all your questions and how to prepare your child for grade two.

With summer learning loss being a significant threat to your child’s learning development during the summer months, how can you keep your children from falling behind while helping them prepare for what’s ahead in grade two?

Preparing your child for grade two while aiming to avoid summer learning loss.

The first step to preparing your child for grade two while avoiding summer learning loss is to not stress about it. As parents, we often worry about ensuring our children are on track with their learning. That worry can become increasingly more vigorous with the concerns around pandemic learning loss.

Then there’s the concern about summer learning loss and how most children lose 2.6 months of math skills, two months of reading skills and the equivalent of one month of overall learning during the summer.

Learn more about Summer Learning Loss here.

How can we help our children catch up from the learning loss they’ve already experienced, stay on track and not lose more learning knowledge during the summer months?

Reading, writing, math and learning are essential skills your child must continually practice to develop correctly, especially during the summer.

Simplifying grade two prep to help prepare your child for grade two.

When you’re trying to prepare your child for grade two, don’t overthink it. So often, we assume that preparing our child for the next grade level needs to be a huge endeavour when the reality is that it can be a simple process when done correctly.

You can simplify their summer learning using the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 2 book! Created specifically for helping children going into grade two, your child will stay refreshed and on track with their learning, so they’re fully prepared for grade two. Saving you hundreds of dollars from looking for and paying way too much for a homeschool curriculum will likely not be what you need to prepare your child for grade two.

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 2 workbook was explicitly created for quick, daily summer learning to prepare your child for grade two.

Let’s look inside the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 2 workbook!

In the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 2 book, we have combined the best of our secular homeschooling curriculum concepts to bring you and your child a unique summer learning solution that will prepare your child for grade two. In a fantastic combination of homeschooling writing curriculum, homeschooling language arts curriculum and homeschooling math curriculum, we aim to help your child practice those essential skills to stay on track.

Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 2 overview:

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 2 workbook is packed with fun learning materials to prepare your child for grade two. Created for six weeks, your child will have the opportunity to learn and refresh different concepts each week.

Week one includes:

A summer Schoolio week includes three days of simple learning that won’t take long to complete.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Friendly Letters – and Math – Number Sense.
Day two, Weekly Writing and Math – Number Sense.
Day three, Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Number sense.

Week two includes:

The second week of Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 2 is similar to week one, just switching up learning concepts.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Writing Fiction – and Math – Number Sense.
Day two, includes Weekly Writing and Number Sense.
Day three, they will have Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Number Sense.

Week three includes:

During the third week of the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 2 book, your child will be working on Weekly Writing – Reviewing a Book – and Math – Algebra

Day one, Weekly Writing – Reviewing a Book – Math – Algebra.
Day two, your child will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Algebra.
Day three includes Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Algebra.

Week four includes:

When your child is working on week four they will complete:

On day one, they will do Weekly Writing – Writing Non-Fiction – and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
On day two, they will be working on Weekly Writing and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
On day three, they will get to work on their scrapbook for Weekly Writing and the final day of Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.

Week five includes:

Day one of week five is Weekly Writing – Poetry and Math – Data.
Day two, they will work on Weekly Writing and Math – Data.
Day three is Scrapbooking for Weekly Writing and Data for Math.

Week six includes:

The first day of week six focuses on Weekly Writing – Summarizing along with Math – Financial Literacy.
The second day is all about Weekly Writing and Financial Literacy for Math.
On the third day, your child can work on their scrapbook for Weekly Writing and enjoy their final Financial Literacy assignment.

As you can see, the assignments and schedule are repetitive, only switching out concepts to keep your child’s learning structured and interesting. This will help your child master all the essential math and reading/writing concepts for grade two.

What does a typical week look like using the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 2 program?

Their workbook will include a sample schedule/calendar you can follow each day. It will look like this:

Monday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Tuesday: Weekly Writing Day 1, Math Day 1, Read a Book or Chapter.

Wednesday: Weekly Writing Day 2, Math Day 2, Read a Book or Chapter.

Thursday: Weekly Writing Day 3, Math Day 3, Read a Book or Chapter.

Friday: Read a Book or Chapter.

It’s incredible how simplified the process of keeping on track with their learning can be. It’s simple and not stressful! The best part is that their learning time can be accomplished in as little as one hour per day. This way, your child can keep up with their learning needs, refresh and not become overwhelmed by too much information crammed into one day.

Prepare your child for grade two.

Pick up your Summer Schoolio Book!

Prepare Your Child for Grade One

Your child is heading into grade one, a massive leap from Kindergarten. So how do you prepare your child to excel? Do you let them have the summer off to play and enjoy? Or should you cram in as many curricula as possible to ensure they know how to excel in grade one? Is there a user manual for getting your child ready for grade one? You likely have so many questions about how to prepare your child for grade one.

As parents, we want to help our children excel and do well in every aspect of their lives. To read, to write, to learn without any trouble, to play, to laugh. But how do we keep our children from falling behind and help them prepare for what’s ahead?

How do you prepare your child for grade one while avoiding summer learning loss?

First things first, don’t stress. After completing Junior and Senior Kindergarten, your child is likely right where they need to be in Grade one. The real issue is summer learning loss and keeping your child from losing all the knowledge they gained.

Unfortunately, most children will lose 2.6 months of math skills, two months of reading skills and the equivalent of one month of overall learning during the summer months.

Learn more about Summer Learning Loss here.

Reading, writing, math, and learning are all skills that your child must continually practice to develop correctly, especially during the summer months.

So now the real question is, how do you prepare your child for grade one?

Simplifying grade one prep.

We often think that preparing our child for the next grade level needs to be some extravagant endeavour when in all actuality, it is a simple process when done correctly.

Using the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 1 book, you can quickly help your child stay on track with their learning. Rather than looking for and paying way too much for a homeschool curriculum that likely won’t be precisely what you need to prepare for grade one over the summer, you can utilize this simple workbook. That was explicitly created for quick, daily summer learning to prepare your child for grade one.

What’s in the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 1 workbook, and how can it help your child?

We understand that everyone wants to have an enjoyable break during the summer months. This is why our Summer Schoolio books have been designed to be straightforward. Without the overwhelm of having to complete a mountain of tasks.

We combine the best of our secular homeschooling curriculum concepts to bring you a unique summer learning solution to prepare your child for grade one. Combining homeschooling writing curriculum with homeschooling Language Arts curriculum and homeschooling Math curriculum to help your child practice those essential skills.

Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 1 overview:

The Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 1 workbook is filled with fun learning materials to prepare your child for grade one. Created for six weeks, your child will have the opportunity to learn and refresh different concepts each week.

Week one includes:

Three days of simple learning that won’t take long to complete.

Day one, Weekly Writing – Writing an Autobiography and Math – Number Sense.
Day two, Weekly Writing and Math Number Sense.
Day three, Scrapbook and Math Number Sense.

The goal of week one is to solidify the knowledge they gained in Kindergarten about writing and Number Sense. Set in three days, it’s essential to acknowledge that your child can either do both Math and Writing for three days or break those up into five days. This is entirely customizable around your life and your schedule.

Week two includes:

The second week of Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 1 is similar to week one. Keep it familiar and straightforward. During week two, your child will have:

Day 1, Weekly Writing – Writing Fiction – Math Number Sense.
Day 2, Weekly Writing – Math Number Sense.
Day 3, Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math Number Sense.

Staying with the three days a week theme, your child will be working on mastering Number Sense and writing during week two.

Week three includes:

During the third week of the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 1 book, your child will be working on:

Day 1, Weekly Writing – Writing Comic Strips – and Math – Algebra.
Day 2, Weekly Writing and Math Algebra.
Day 3, Weekly Writing – Scrapbook – and Math – Algebra.

Brushing up on those Algebra skills, your child will be an absolute pro by the end of week three.

Week four includes:

When your child moves onto the fourth week, they will be working on Geometry/Spatial sense and writing Non-Fiction.

Day 1, Weekly Writing – Writing Comic Strips and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Day 2, Weekly Writing and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.
Day 3, Weekly Writing – Scrapbook, and Math – Geometry/Spatial Sense.

Week five includes:

Just like the weeks before, week five will focus on another mathematical concept along with writing/reading practice.

Day 1, Weekly Writing – Poetry and Math – Data.
Day 2, Weekly Writing and Math – Data.
Day 3, Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math – Data.

Week six includes:

The final week in the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 1 book follows the same schedule.

Day 1, Weekly Writing – Recipes and Math – Financial Literacy.
Day 2, is Weekly Writing and Math Financial Literacy.
Day 3, Weekly Writing – Scrapbook and Math Financial Literacy.

Helping your child master their financial literacy skills before jumping into grade one.

What would a typical week look like using the Summer Schoolio: Ready for Grade 1 program?

The book will include a sample schedule/calendar you can follow each day. It translates to:

Monday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Tuesday: Weekly Writing Day 1, Math Day 1, and Read a Book or Chapter.

Wednesday: Weekly Writing Day 2, Math Day 2, and Read a Book or Chapter.

Thursday: Weekly Writing Day 3, Math Day 3, and Read a Book or Chapter.

Friday: Read a Book or Chapter.

Are you amazed at how simple that is to follow? And the best part is that it can be accomplished in less than an hour daily. This way, your child can keep up with their learning needs, refresh, and not become overwhelmed by too much information crammed into one day.

Prepare your child for grade one by starting today with The Summer Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 1 Book!

Click here For Schoolio: Get Ready for Grade 1

Avoid Summer Learning Loss

Summer break is easily one of the highlights for children everywhere! The excitement of making fun a priority for a couple of months is such an intriguing thought. How can we help our children embrace all the fun they can get this summer while also aiming to avoid summer learning loss?

Summer Learning Loss is a significant issue.

What is summer learning loss? Summer learning loss is the loss of knowledge and academic skills throughout summer vacation. This issue causes a significant problem for children, especially in the younger grades when reading and math practice are essential for maintaining skills.

The reality is that when the school year ends, many children will have very few opportunities to engage in reading and mathematical ways of thinking. This is why it’s so important to look at learning methods to avoid summer learning loss.

Children have already lost so much essential learning time from pandemic learning loss.

Harvard Professor Tom Kane says, “There’s no time to waste.” His latest research has demonstrated that many, if not most, school districts are seeing pandemic learning losses much more severe than they initially imagined.

Even when education experiences were average, and the pandemic hadn’t turned life and learning completely upside-down, children still faced significant learning losses during the summer.

Every summer, children lose 2.6 months of math skills, two months of reading skills, and the equivalent of one month of overall learning. When they get back to learning in the fall, it is estimated that they will spend up to six weeks trying to re-learn old material to make up for these losses.

Those statistics are pretty severe and, unfortunately, don’t even consider that children are already struggling and way behind where they should be due to pandemic learning.

How can you help your child avoid summer learning loss and perhaps even begin to catch up from pandemic learning loss?

1. Make learning time a priority.

Setting a learning time doesn’t mean your child needs to be doing school every day! Alternatively, you can make a schedule each day to include 30 minutes per day of ‘learning time.’ During that 30 minutes, they can work on their summer learning materials like the Summer Schoolio books. Dedicating just 30 minutes daily to focus on completing the daily activities can help boost your child’s learning while significantly helping your child avoid summer learning loss.

2. Schedule Outdoor Learning Experiences.

Your child likely loves to explore the outdoors during the summer months, especially after months of winter weather and being stuck inside. And conveniently, plenty of outdoor experiences are waiting to help your child learn while having fun. Outdoor adventures help your child apply what they’ve learned in the classroom while improving cognitive functioning and physical health.

Some fun outdoor activities include:

Visit a Honeybee Farm (bonus points if you do this after studying the All About Honeybees Special interest Unit)
Add local cultural festivals and fairs to your calendar!
Get in the garden as gardening is connected with many developmental, physical and psychological benefits for children of all ages.
Schedule a ‘once-a-week outdoor clean-up’ to help the environment while helping your child learn the importance of caring for our amazing planet.

3. Focus on Specific Areas of Learning.

You’re likely able to pinpoint the subject(s) your child is experiencing the most difficulty with. Prioritize learning around this subject throughout the summer.

4. Encourage Your Child to Read Anywhere.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, it can be tough to stay inside when the weather is fantastic. Instead of telling your child that they can’t go outside until they’ve finished reading – encourage them to take the book out and read on the porch or in the backyard.

When you take story time to the outdoors, you are providing their young minds with the opportunity to indulge in the sights and sounds of the outdoors. The outdoors provides an excellent multi-sensory experience that can help your child better connect to their surroundings while developing phonemic awareness.

5. Include Reading Materials About Outdoor Activities.

Is your child interested in gardening? Swimming? Birds? Then head to the library and pick up some fun books about those subjects, allowing them to read and learn about something that greatly interests them while helping them develop their reading skills.

6. Utilize a Local Community Garden.

Community gardens offer many learning opportunities for children (and adults) of all ages. When you and your child become involved with a local community garden, they will have the chance to learn about important things like cultivation, seed preservation, essential bugs, landscaping and horticulture. All of which are so important for our children to learn!

7. Limit Screen Time and Encourage Imaginative Play.

It can be tempting to allow your child to stay on their device for hours as you can get a much-needed break. But we all know this can be very bad for their mental health and detrimental to their developing brains. Encourage them to use their imaginations to play and create. If your child is used to always being on a screen, this will likely be a bumpy start. Stay strong and be consistent.

8. Pick up a Summer Schoolio Book.

Help your child avoid summer learning loss and prepare for the coming school year using this unique Schoolio program. Summer Schoolio Books are specifically designed to be suitable for any student learner that has completed their grade level.

The Summer Schoolio Program focuses on reviewing and solidifying important mathematical and language concepts studied in the previous year of learning. Throughout the program, your child will review materials in Number Sense and Numeration, Algebra and Patterning, Data Management and probability, Geometry and Spatial Reasoning, and Financial Literacy while also engaging in weekly writing activities.

Check Out the Summer Schoolio Program

Never overstress your child.

We understand the desire to help your child completely catch up on everything while also aiming to avoid summer learning loss. But remember, there’s a fine line that you need to walk. Keep an eye on your child, especially during reading/learning times, if they’re getting agitated and want to be done for the day. Then let them be. Learning is even more challenging to accomplish when the brain is under stress. As parents, we often feel we must constantly work to help our children succeed. But remember, sometimes downtime is just as crucial as learning time.

Help Your Child Cope With News About Gun Violence

In 2022 there have been 198 mass shootings in the United States, and it’s only May. Hearing of these tragedies has become so common that many people have become nearly numb to the news. We don’t understand why someone would choose to hurt other people in the name of hate, but our children are the ones who often have the big questions, not understanding why these awful events take place. You might be wondering how to help your child cope with news about gun violence?

They shouldn’t have to understand.

It hurts to see our kids trying to understand hate, violence, and crimes like these. Going grocery shopping at a local store shouldn’t be where a violent event occurs. Going to school to get an education shouldn’t be where your child doesn’t feel safe. Yet, active shooter drills are a part of their education for many children.

As much as we would like to shelter our children from the world’s dangers and these traumatic news reports, unfortunately, you can’t in most cases. So, how do you help your child cope with news about gun violence? How do you inform them to keep them safe but not remove their innocence and zest for the world?

It seems like nowhere is safe.

Dangerous, deadly and devastating mass shootings continue to be the central theme of news reports, senseless killings in the name of hate. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to matter where you are or what you’re doing, nowhere seems safe. Schools, concerts, bars, malls, movie theatres, churches, and grocery stores are just some of the locations where these deadly acts take place, which can cause a lot of anxiety for children and adults alike. Is it safe to go to the grocery store to get groceries? Many people on Saturday, May 14, 2022, thought so. They never would’ve guessed that a grocery store would be a place where a hate crime would occur or that going grocery shopping would be how their lives would end so abruptly, harshly, cruelly, and filled with hateful motives.

Mass shootings seem to be happening more and more with each year that goes by; finding the words to explain again and again why it happened and continues to happen can be a challenge.

What are the right words to explain traumatic gun violence incidents and help your child cope with news about gun violence?

Assure their safety.

Always assure your child that they are safe and that you are always looking out for their safety. A clinical psychologist at Doctor’s on Demand, John Mayer, Ph.D., told parents.com in an interview explaining gun violence to children that assuring your child during these scary times is extremely important. “Reassuring our children in these turbulent and violent times is an important question for parenting. Say to your children: ‘We will never take you anywhere or put you in any place where there is danger. That is our primary job as parents to protect you. We will always keep you safe.’ That fundamental message of safety is critical to make sure your children hear.” says John Mayer, Ph.D.

We all know that the truth is we can’t always guarantee our children’s safety, but our children need to be assured nonetheless. They need to know that they are safe at school with their teachers, at the grocery store with you, or at the movies with their grandparents. Living in constant fear of what could happen is not suitable for children.

Teach them about the importance of gun safety.

According to EveryTown.org, firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States alone. Every year 18,000 children and teens are shot, killed or wounded because guns are not handled safely. Additionally, around 3 million other children are exposed to gun violence directly.

Talking to your children about gun safety:

Teach them never to touch a gun unless carefully supervised by an adult.
Let them know that only adults trained to do so, like police, should handle guns.
Explain the consequences of real guns vs. toy guns. They aren’t a toy.

Don’t let your child hear it all from social media, T.V. or friends in school.

These horrific events are gruesome, and reports are filled with details that your child shouldn’t absorb, especially if they’re young. Aim to have a gentle conversation with your child about the tragic event. Try to avoid finding out through another source that will likely provide too much detail for their young minds. For example: Having the news report on the T.V. when your child comes home from school can cause them to dwell on the events and instill fears and worries that they don’t need happening in their growing minds.

Give your child an open space to share their thoughts and worries.

Some children hardly notice or care about what is happening worldwide, but others may face anxiety about horrific events connected to gun violence. Always assure your child that they can bring these worries and concerns up to you. Keep conversations open and take the time and consideration to listen to what they are saying to you. Everyone benefits from talking to someone when they’re facing anxiety about something. When your child can share their concerns and worries in a safe environment, they will feel more confident, secure and better able to process and understand what they are feeling and thinking.

Always be sure to keep things age-appropriate when figuring out how to help your child cope with news about gun violence.

Your young children won’t need a massive explanation for why something horrific like a mass shooting occurred; assuring your child’s safety to them is extremely important in their younger years. Children ages 12 and up are often more able to be introduced to in-depth conversations like how these senseless actions are immoral and unacceptable.

Give them space and freedom to acknowledge.

Many times, we as adults are dismissive of the daily tragic events. We have become desensitized and almost numb to horrific events, like mass shootings, reported on the news. Remember, your child is sensitive, and these events are upsetting. Don’t brush off their feelings and questions because that is what we are used to doing. Please give them the space and freedom to sit with their emotions and think through them. Be there for them, guiding them through these thoughts and feelings positively.

A helpful resource for helping your child manage their thoughts and feelings.

Using the Thoughts and Feelings: Learning to Manage How I think and Feel, Special Interest Unit, you can help your child learn positive lessons on managing those big emotions.

Learn more about Thoughts and Feelings: Learning to Manage How I Think and Feel.

Guiding Your Own Growth

Guiding Your Own Growth – Guest Blog By Kaila Gilley.

You against the world. On the one hand, this sentiment frees. You choose an untraditional education route for your child, at least in part, because of its liberty—your kids, your family unit, your choice: your opportunity. On the other hand, however, it is a heavy opportunity. Guiding your own growth can sometimes be heavy.

It’s pressure like a drip, drip, drip, that’ll never stop,” sings Jessica Darrow in Disney’s Encanto. “Pressure that’ll tip, tip, ’til you just go pop.” It’s all on you. These tiny humans you birthed, and then you poured into each your every morsel of energy, love, patience, and humanity. Your heart is outside of your body.

Them, then you.

You (and your partner) shoulder responsibility for their academic education, emotional well-being, physical capacity, intellectual stimulation, character development, social health, etc. You wear all of the hats and play all of the roles.

“Who am I if I can’t carry it all?”

Our phenomenal project-based learning (PBL) charter school had a massive crush on professional development when I was in the classroom. In the morning, he brought her protein shakes, which they used to toast to life-long learning; they stayed up late discussing how best to keep teachers’ passions aflame.

We had professional development (PD) most mornings for an hour before school, meeting within teaching teams (the combination of Math, Science, English and Social Studies teachers), within departments (English Teachers), within grade levels (9th-grade teachers), with our mentos, with our leadership, with support for students with special needs, within groups we opted into, within whole school-wide discussions, with parents and community members.

We worked with layers of people to best understand and teach to the layers of our students.

Then, I moved.

My partner and I had babies and decided to educate our kids at home. With a very demanding career dragging away his focus, I hold most of the responsibility for our three precious children, our most important people, and I lack a previously layered professional support system.

I teach my children without mentors, without department heads, without leadership, without teams—just me—tip, tip, tipping.

So, I decided to reenter the space for professional educators, guiding my growth. And I told my friend about it. “A side hustle?” she responded. I cringed at her tone. Not exactly the slap on the back, good-job-kid, I was hoping for. It was not the interest that peaked, a tell-me-more curiosity that I craved. Nor was it plain, blunt indifference.

Her inflection verbalized, “Boo.” Voice equivalent of a thumbs down. I watched one of my Mom Star Rating flickers and then died. A transparent thought bubble floated over her head as if on a screen. A picture of my children projected within it like an old sepia film. Their big sad, reflecting eyes staring up with want, empty arms outstretched, and souls drained by sudden attention withdrawal as if the side hustle had morphed into a Harry Potter dementor and deflated the innocence from their lives one by one.

In a world with subjective interpretations of “good parenting,” her scene played out with a definitive F for failure on my motherhood report card.

Contrary to her projection, here is my actual, new reality in short conversation blurbs:

“Hi, Susie’s Mom! Do you remember our conversation the other day? The one where you said you were overwhelmed by choosing a curriculum? Turns out you’re not alone. Lemme share this great article I found about what some others moms did to make the decision more manageable.”

“Hey Junior, did you know Schoolio has a unit about Winter Holidays from Around the World? I thought you’d like those. Yes, we can get that for you. It’s only $10!”

“Coop Comrades, I just heard about some online tutoring available for families embracing untraditional education methods for their children. I just thought I’d share!”

“Hey sweetie, can I work next to your while you do your thing?”

Considering her interpretation in contrast to my present state, I stared at her thought bubble and gently popped it. I was not my reality; it was her fears: part-time side hustle, full-time betterment. I have reclaimed my personal and professional growth, full empowerment.

Now it isn’t all roses and fairytales when guiding your own growth.

It doesn’t evaporate dirty dishes or alleviate large families of the stomach flu. The transition bumps violently along some days and glides gracefully on others. But, at a minimum, this week, I comforted Susie’s mom, tossed Junior an idea, supported my coop comrades, and worked separately with my little girl. All thanks to my re-entry.

More exposure, more ideas, more connections, more sparks, more intrigue, more inspiration.

“One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development,” says Brain Tracy, Canadian motivational speaker and self-development author.

As a group of people striving to nurture and guide the growth of our children, we too must embrace the G-word.

Growth maintains our current roles as leaders and high achievers and offers a path toward self-selected improvement. We get to grow professionally in our personal lives. Growth gives us a way towards better.

“Without collaboration, our growth is limited to our own perspectives,” says Robert John Meehan, author and advocate for American teachers and learners.

If we come together through part-time hustles, we halt our single-perspective limitations and empower our community, families, and ourselves. We join in, learn and improve.

“I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we choose to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage, or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time,” says Brene Brown, an emotion researcher and motivational speaker.

We join the arena; then we dare greatly; we guide our greatness. Who and how will you empower today?

Guiding Your Own Growth was written by: Kaila Gilley

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