The summer may not be a time to continue homeschooling in your family, that does not mean that learning has to come to a stop for your homeschool students. Here are some summer projects that you can involve your children in, and be sure that they will continue to learn even if it is outside the homeschool classroom.
An Internship
Get your child to work as an intern at a business. It is a good idea for the homeschool student to see how a place of business actually runs. This can be a part time activity a few days a week. Get in touch with a local business who can use some extra help over the holidays and give your child a lesson in real life. They can even shadow an adult at work for a week to get a better idea of what working at a specific job can actually entail. Ask your friends, most will be happy to oblige.
Mentor Someone
Getting your homeschool student to help a weaker child in a subject that they are good at is a good way to ensure that there is little summer brain drain to deal with. Being a student tutor will also help the confidence of your homeschool student, while ensuring that he has to do a revision of what he’s expected to teach the child he is mentoring. Not to mention the good deed that he will be performing will help him feel that he is contributing to society.
Manual Labour or Outdoor Summer Jobs
The idea is to get them to exercise while contributing to a bigger project. A large number of summer jobs are available for students who are willing workers. Also even if they are volunteer jobs, the description looks good on their resume. Ask them to work at something they enjoy or that their friends will be doing to ensure that they stick with it all summer. Remind them that if they can drive, they can definitely do a summer job. Plus earning their own spending money can never hurt.
