Summer holidays are a great time to kick back, relax and forget all about lessons. However when you get back to regular school routine, there can be a great deal of learning loss for students who have not kept up with some kind of studies during the summer break. Here are some ideas to prevent severe summer learning loss and keep your students on track when they rejoin regular classes at the end of the break.
Revise Old Lessons
A good way to keep learning and not introduce new topics during the summer is to revise the lessons with which you know the homeschool students have issues. Simple worksheets, rereading a chapter or even writing a report can be good ways to reinforce what has already been taught.
Catch Up to Your Schedule
Ever so often real life interferes with the homeschool schedule. Think of all those lessons you had planned but were unable to complete due to some reason. The summer break is a good time to play catch up with those topics. It allows you to keep on the schedule when break ends.
Learn More About a Topic
During the academic year there is so much more to cover that at times an in depth study into a topic of interest is just not possible. During the summer use the extra hours available to help your homeschool student learn more about topics that have interested him during the school classes.
Shift Teaching to Online Sites
Instead of being the teacher in the summer, ask the homeschool students to pick up online courses. This will ensure that they learn and continue to be productive while you get the much deserved break from continuously planning and teaching in the classroom.
Become a Regular at the Local Library
Fiction, comics, biographies, reference books, it doesn’t matter what they read. Just give them the library card and have them issue out a new book each week. It will allow them to develop an interest in all kinds of books. Knowledge in any form is never a waste. Give them the freedom to explore books.
