10 Reasons to Homeschool in the Summer |
Melinda Boring |
These top 10 reasons for homeschooling during the summer will help you identify the advantages of year-round homeschooling. These advantages include having more days during the school year for field trips, projects, local programs, and emergencies. It also provides more routine and continuity. |
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Homeschooling Throughout the Summer |
Beth Corcoran |
Homeschooling through the summer allows for increased predictability across the year, an emphasis on the value of learning, less stree, better retention, and more fun in your schooling. In this article, the author discusses these benefits and offers encouragement to give year-round schooling a try. |
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How to Homeschool Through the Summer |
Tiany Davis |
Surprisingly, many families that homeschool year round experience homeschool burnout far less than those that take the summer off. The pressure to finish the year's curriculum within a specific time frame can become quite stressful. Take advantage of the summer months to finish up on formal schooling and fill in gaps while adding fun, hands-on learning. When we strive to develop a lifelong love of learning within the family, year-round homeschooling becomes the norm. |
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How to Homeschool: Homeschooling Through the Summer |
A light-hearted look at homeschooling through the summer months. A reminder that we never really finish anything with our children and that education is more than just finishing a textbook from cover to cover. |
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How to Ruin Your Kid's Summer Vacation |
Kate Moses |
If your children could tell you what they really want to do for vacation, you might find out that your meticulous plans to keep them occupied this summer is all for naught.
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Not Back to School Camp |
The Not Back to School Camp is for unschoolers ages 13-18. Founded by Grace Llewellyn, the author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, sessions are offered throughout the year in various locations across the United States. |
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Summer Algebra Institute for Kids |
SAI: the Summer Algebra Institute for Kids is an enrichment program that uses algebra to unify and connected mathematics for children and teachers. One of SAI’s strengths is showing young students how algebra illustrates several “grand ideas” that show the unity and connectedness of math across grades and across topics.
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Timberline Ranch Homeschool Camp |
Timberline Ranch in Maple Ridge, BC, Canada, offers a series of six one-day camps on consecutive Mondays, designed specially for homelearners aged 8-16, to give some new experiences and opportunities. Meet other homeschoolers, learn new skills, take on new challenges, and more! Daily activities include riding lessons, horsemanship, riflery, archery, climbing lessons, and group activities.
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Twin Oaks Homeschoolers' Camps |
If you like tent camping, country forests & meadows, socializing with homeschoolers, creative learning and just-plain-fun, come experience outdoor overnight camps in rural Virginia, with ten to twenty-five other homeschooling children. These camps are designed for children ages 8 to 13.
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