Homeschooling? Have a Not Back to School Day!

I’ll admit I’ve spent the past month or so in Back to School mode, and in reality we started back to school BEFORE all of the public school kids.  Of course it was light schooling of one or two lessons a day, but it was some amount of schooling.

But on the first day of public school we won’t do any lessons.  We call it:

Not Back to School Day

Catchy title, isn’t it? It’s super original I’m sure, and no one else has ever used it before.  Except almost every other homeschooler I know has some variation on this.

How do you celebrate Not Back to School Day?

Our homeschool co-op celebrates with a pool party.  We have managed to miss it twice now, but I am determined to make it this year.  We all gather at a local neighborhood pool around 2:00, and swim for a couple of hours.  Noticeably we are in the pool as all of the public school kids are getting out.

I’ll admit, we did that this spring, our lessons were done for the day, and I might have used swimming as an incentive to get work done faster.

Another year we went to the movies for Not Back to School Day.  Some random Disney movie was in the dollar theater, and we went to see it.  At 1:00 in the afternoon, on the first day of public school.  We were the only ones in the theater.  It was glorious.

Last year we went to Schlitterbahn.  It’s a local water park, and they are open for a week after the local public schools open because the colleges don’t open for a week after the public schools do.  So, we had no lines and got the workout of a lifetime as we walked up the four flights of stairs to take the super cool rollercoaster tube ride down.

Do you celebrate Not Back to School Day?

What are your traditions?  Or do you do something different each time?  I’m thinking we’ll go to Schlitterbahn again, but I don’t know for sure yet.

• Back to School Teacher Gift {Free Printable Bag Topper} from Crafty Mama in ME
• Back to School Interview for Kids from CraftCreateCalm
• Free Kissing Hand Songs, Poems, & Videos to Ease Separation Anxiety from Living Montessori Now
• How to Help Kids Back to School from iGameMom
• Middle School Student Organizers for Tweens from Look! We’re Learning!
• Back to School Hand Washing Water Play from Play & Learn Every Day
• 52 Preschool Themes (& FREE 2016-2017 Preschool Theme Calendar!) from Preschool Powol Packets

Want some actual Back to School ideas?

I’ve been sharing them for the past month in my newsletter.  But, here are my favorites:

• Organizing notebooks
• Getting ready for a new school year
• Planning your homeschool schedule