End Of Year Celebrations
I saw a few people talking about this on a couple home educators lists I read. People are wondering what to do to mark the end of the year, or the passing from one grade to the next. Do you have a big celebration, do a small graduation ceremony with local home schooled kids, not even notice it?
In one group a mom mentioned that she takes a picture of her kids at the end of each year and lets them decorate a frame to hang the pictures in. She has a long row of images going down her hall showing off how they have changed. I thought that was a great idea, and I might steal it a bit for my own. Since I love to scrapbook I make a little mini-book to showcase a few things from the year. A few pictures that I had taken, a list of the books we read, and a few notes here and there about interesting things that were done. Though something like that is more fun for me than for anyone else.
So what do you do to celebrate the end of another year? Do you have a family tradition that you do each year, or just let the kids decide how they want to mark the event? I’d love to hear what kids of ideas everyone has on this. Those who don’t do anything special I would love to know why not, if there is a specific reason or if you just don’t see a need for it.
graduation, end of year, celebration, home education
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:48 am
The way we do school sometimes means the kids pass from one ‘grade’ to the next in the middle of the year. We do take part in an awards ceremony at our church for all the kids who won things during their school year, and the HS parents do some special recognition and rewards for their kids as well. It’s a great time for all of them.