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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.

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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.

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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 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!

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Defend Your Choice to Homeschool

It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year. The time of the year that includes family gatherings, delicious meals, holiday music, and gifts. Easily the best part of the holiday season is the opportunity for you to defend your choice to homeschool. Now you get to practice this skill with every family member that decides to question your choice. How exciting! So, are you prepared to defend your choice to homeschool this holiday season? If not, let us help you with that.

Homeschooling has become so much more mainstream in the last 10 years. Nevertheless, there are still so many people that have strong negative opinions about home-learning. Often times their opinions can be extremely overwhelming. Which sometimes can lead to frustration and at times social exhaustion.

Additionally, feeling like you have to constantly defend your choice to homeschool can leave you feeling very burnt out.

So, why do people judge homeschooling so harshly and also so often? Undoubtedly it has to do with traditional comforts for starters. Because the average person wants things to look and work a certain way. Therefore when things look different, or they have a hard time understanding something ‘new’, it can cause them to have a mountain of doubts in your homeschooling abilities.

Is it fair that you must defend your choice to homeschool? Absolutely not. Unquestionably there are some people that just enjoy questioning you to get a rise. Clearly, in those situations walking away is honestly your best choice. On the other hand, if this relationship is important to you and the person asking the questions is clearly just asking out of curiosity. Then these eight reasons will come in as a handy reference for you. Especially when preparing to defend your homeschooling choice this holiday season.

8 Reasons Why Homeschooling Rocks:

1. Freedom to Choose.

Many parents find that in-home learning allows them the freedom to choose their educational approach. Additionally, homeschooling can be personalized around your schedule, values, and living. This can look like: Some parents choosing to unschool for greater benefits of freedom and even creativity. On the other hand, structured learning can produce amazing benefits. Those benefits include but are not limited to: Accelerated academic performance. As well as, homeschooling gives the parent, and the student, the freedom to choose what style of education is best suited for their learning needs.

2. Putting your child’s needs first, now!

Homeschooling gives you the freedom to prioritize your child’s emotional, mental, physical and behavioural health now. Rather than worrying about your child in a large class setting. You have the opportunity to help them with their current needs.

3. Which brings us to our next important reason: Valuable Learning time.

Chances are you already know this to be true. Large class sizes have aided in learning loss. Additionally, children’s learning challenges often go undetected. The reason is that it’s nearly impossible for a teacher to care for a class of 20+ children and help each child learn in a way that is unique to them. When homeschooling, your child will greatly benefit from the one-on-one time that they will receive.

4. Opportunity to focus on important life skills.

Preparing for adult life is a really great perk of homeschooling. Obviously, homeschooled children have more opportunities to learn to cook, budget, do laundry and more. These life lessons are just as valuable as a child’s math assignment.

5. Encouraging Independence.

While one-on-one learning is readily available when homeschooling. There’re also amazing opportunities for your child to learn independent skills. This is another huge perk of homeschooling. Things like independent play, reading time, life skills, and more. Are all utilized when homeschooling.

6. Stepping out of a bad situation.

Occasionally mental health issues are directly connected to unfortunate school situations. For example: Providing your child safety from a situation that they’re being bullied in. This is another huge beneficial component to homeschooling.

7. Focus on their mental health.

Anxiety, depression, brain health, and social anxiety are all areas of your child’s mental health that can be helped by homeschooling. Because homeschooling gives you the chance to help your child by focusing on their mental and emotional well-being. Moreover, homeschool parents can prioritize time learning coping skills, medical care and therapy. Which will then benefit the child mentally, and in time academically too.

8. Home learning offers the opportunity for a more thorough education.

It’s fact that traditional schools skip a lot of educational lessons. These range from different subjects like history and science to mental health. Of course these educational lessons have the opportunity to examined further when homeschooling.

Regardless of how beneficial it can be, home learning won’t be for everyone.

Even if you listed all the most amazing benefits of homeschooling to the person questioning you. Some people still will not be able to see the benefits. Please don’t let their sour opinions drag you down. Even if you just remember these 8 reasons to benefit and back up your own personal beliefs about homeschooling. It will still be worth it.

Your decision to put your child’s education first is a direct side affect of your desire to provide them with the best skills for a good life. You’re doing a great job.

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Additional Resources:

Benefits of Homeschooling – The Homeschool Mom

What Are Some Benefits of Homeschooling – OFTP

4 Reasons Your Kids Should be Homeschooled – Augusta Free Press