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Jul. 17, 2020
The Best of Sonlight Summer Readers, Part 1
The relaxed pace of summer learning provides the perfect opportunity to put away the schedule and enjoy unstructured reading. Summer reading keeps the skills your kids learned during the school year sharp while still providing entertainment. There’s no need to … Continue reading
Jun. 22, 2020
Your 5-step Summer To-do List for Homeschooling this Fall
Did you know a winning school year starts in the summer? Summer is a time for rest, vacation, adventure, exploration, and also for planning and gearing up for the new school year. If we approach the summer months with strategic … Continue reading
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Jun. 8, 2020
3 Types of Life Skills to Teach Your Children this Summer
The summer months are a more relaxed time that you could use to brush up on life skills that get overlooked throughout the traditional school year. During the school year, we focused on basic educational standards. Reading, history, writing, and … Continue reading
Tagged electives, life experience, life skills, summer
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Jun. 26, 2019
How to Plan Your Entire Sonlight Year and Reclaim Sunday Nights
A few years ago I found a homeschool planning method that has completely changed my life! I switched from weekly homeschool planning to planning for the entire year, and I will tell you...I will never go back! I don’t know … Continue reading
May. 29, 2019
The Ultimate Summer Bucket List of Life Skills for Homeschoolers
Parents needs summer vacation as much as their children! It's a time to relax and recover. But summer days are also a great time to squeeze in topics that might be neglected during the homeschool year—like life skills! Homeschoolers joke … Continue reading
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May. 24, 2019
3 Ways To Give Your Summer Structure
Summer promises freedom. And, oh, do we crave that freedom—freedom from the obligation of daily assignments, the to and fro of weekly practices, and the hectic pace of co-op schedules. But then, sometime around the five-week mark of an extended … Continue reading
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May. 22, 2019
Creative Ways Kids Can Write More this Summer
Handwriting and writing are a common casualty of summer learning loss. This phenomenon results when children lose ground on hard-earned, newly acquired skills from lack of use. Even those of us who homeschool year-round are often ready for a switch … Continue reading
