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Homeschooling? Have a Not Back to School Day!

August 12, 2016 Ticia 8 Comments

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?

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I didn’t update with my new logo, I’m lazy I know.

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.

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Also didn’t update this

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.

swimming

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.

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  • 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
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Want some actual Back to School ideas?

celebrate not back to school in your homeschool

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

homeschool, Homeschool Holidays

Comments

  1. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful says

    August 12, 2016 at 7:21 am

    We usually start our vacation the day the ps kids go back to school. This year we are having it two weeks earlier because two are going to college. I still think I will take the younger two to the Waterpark on the week that the ps kids start school.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      August 22, 2016 at 10:49 pm

      When do public schools go back in your area? Our local schools are going back tomorrow, so we’re heading to the water parks then.

  2. maryanne says

    August 12, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    Emma is campaigning to homeschool next fall (2017) for 6th grade. We’ll see if she gets Mike on board…

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      August 22, 2016 at 10:49 pm

      I’m totally on board (not that my vote counts for anything ;p).

  3. Natalie PlanetSmartyPants says

    August 12, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    Nice tradition! I think that “back to school” day is probably the most exciting day for most kids going to public or private school… No, wait! That would be, “School is out!” day 😀

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      August 22, 2016 at 10:54 pm

      The two biggest days for sure! I think by the time Back to School rolls around most kids are ready to go back, but certainly by the time end of school rolls around, they are ready to be out.

  4. Lauren says

    August 24, 2016 at 3:03 pm

    Love this! We started on Monday and I made a special breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes. We did some reading (which my son loves) and math. Then we went to Sweet Frog ad Five Below. They loved it! Thanks for all the ideas and links!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      August 24, 2016 at 7:35 pm

      My kids would have loved that too.

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