Social Mondays: connection without a Tuesday commitment
Social Mondays gives Kitsap homeschool families regular time to become familiar faces rather than occasional acquaintances. Park days, games, clubs, seasonal activities, field trips, and conversation create the space for both children and adults to form local friendships.
Why recurring social time matters
Homeschool families can find one-time activities almost anywhere. The harder thing to find is continuity: the same children seeing one another often enough to invent games, remember last week’s conversation, work through awkward moments, and grow into friendship. Social Mondays is organized around that continuity rather than around a fixed class syllabus.
Parents benefit from the same rhythm. There is time to exchange local knowledge, compare what is working at home, share resources, and simply talk with adults who understand the shape of a homeschool week.
What a Monday can look like
Outdoor gatherings give children room for active play and let conversations unfold without forcing every age into the same activity.
Indoor and seasonal gatherings can grow from what participating families want to do together rather than a permanent course catalog.
Children, Eagles, younger siblings, and adults share a community without treating school grade as the only useful social boundary.
Field trips, community events, member-led meetups, groups, and online conversations give relationships more than one place to grow.
What Social Mondays is—and is not
Social Mondays is an NKHC community group, not a membership. It does not include Tuesday class registration and it does not carry the Tuesday teaching or volunteer commitment. Tuesday co-op membership does include Social Mondays group access, so Tuesday families can participate in both rhythms.
The group has a $25 facility fee per family to help cover use of the Monday space. Activities can change with the season, weather, available spaces, and the interests of participating families. That flexibility is intentional; the steady feature is the chance to meet again.
Current Social Mondays dates
The dates below come from the active NKHC term. They update with the schedule rather than relying on an old list copied into this page.
Fall 2026
Applications to NK Homeschool Community are available now. Families can explore the current class catalog before choosing Tuesday co-op membership, the Social Mondays community group, or both.
Tuesday co-op
Sep 8–Dec 15, 202610:00 am–2:00 pm · our weekly Bremerton-area facility
13 scheduled datesSocial Mondays
Sep 14–Dec 14, 2026Park and community days, with many park days while the weather is nice
12 scheduled datesCurrent learning
14 classesParent-led offerings across age groups
Tuesday co-op dates
Sep 8 · Sep 15 · Sep 22 · Sep 29 · Oct 6 · Oct 20 · Oct 27 · Nov 3 · Nov 10 · Nov 17 · Dec 1 · Dec 8 · Dec 15
Social Mondays dates
Sep 14 · Sep 21 · Sep 28 · Oct 5 · Oct 19 · Oct 26 · Nov 2 · Nov 9 · Nov 16 · Nov 30 · Dec 7 · Dec 14
How Monday serves the nonprofit mission
The corporation’s mission is to complement a home-based education and foster a diverse and supportive homeschool community. Social Mondays focuses directly on the second half of that mission: relationships strong enough for children and adults to feel known, supported, and connected locally. The group also gives families a way to know NKHC before deciding whether a structured Tuesday co-op is right for them.
NKHC is secular in how it operates and welcomes families of all faiths or none, including LGBTQ+ families and families active in faith communities. Respectful participation matters more than matching curriculum, politics, or worldview.
Join the Monday community
Start one application and choose Social Mondays. There is no tour step: confirm the first email, then the community team reviews the application and follows up.