The holidays are the best weeks of the year for reading, because the child is rested and the clock is empty. Use them to add days rather than hours: five short lessons a week in July will move a child further than any term-time month, and it costs the family less effort than term time does.
Why holiday weeks are worth more
In term time the lesson competes with homework, tiredness and a bedtime. In the holidays it competes with nothing, so the child arrives able to concentrate and leaves without a second task waiting.
Morning slots open up too, and a ten o'clock lesson with a fresh child is worth two at seven in the evening with a tired one.
A holiday plan that is not a second school
- Days
- Five short ones, not three long ones.
- Length
- Thirty minutes. Resist making it an hour because the day is free.
- Time
- Morning, before the day fills up.
- Goal
- One visible milestone for the holidays — finishing a Qaida stage, or three short surahs — rather than “as much as possible”.
If you are travelling
- Tell the teacher the dates before you go, not after you have missed two lessons.
- Time zones are workable — the slot moves for the trip and moves back afterwards.
- If you pause entirely, the unused balance carries over to the next month here rather than being lost.
- Two lessons a week while travelling keeps the habit alive and is far better than a clean stop.
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