Celebrate Good Times! Come on!
With all the tragic things that happened in our world and personal challenges you may have experienced, even in the midst, you pushed through and continued homeschooling your family. You deserve to celebrate! A celebration can be a great remedy to take your mind off those blues. You worked hard all year, so now it’s time to have some fun. Here are some summer celebration ideas to help you celebrate all the hard-work you and your family accomplished this homeschool year!
Create a Yearbook Scrapbook
Throughout the summer, you and your family can put together a scrapbook about your homeschool year. You can include:
Student work samples
Pictures of homeschooling in action
Portrait style pictures of your children
First and last day of homeschool pictures
Museum ticket stubs
Field trip souvenirs like posters, flyers, and pamphlets
And anything else you can think of!
Recognize Areas of Growth
Create and print certificates to give your child to congratulate them for all their hard work. Take the opportunity to celebrate their specific areas of growth. It could be academically, socially, emotionally, behaviorally, or spiritually. That’s one of the beautiful things about homeschooling. You can celebrate your entire child, not just one aspect or single performance in a specific area.
End of Year Party!
What better way to celebrate your homeschool year than with a summer party! You can keep it small and simple or go all out with Pinterest board ideas, decorations, and themes! Have your favorite finger foods, desserts, and drinks along with fun water games and a fire playlist. Let your children have a part in the planning too!
Family Superlatives
If you attended a brick-and-mortar school, you likely remember voting for superlatives. Superlatives were a fun opportunity to vote people in your class as most likely to be president, most likely to be famous, most likely to have the most children, and the list went on. You can do the very same with your family! You know your family better than anyone, so compile of list of all their attributes and create superlatives for you all to nominate each other for. After voting, announce and award your superlatives. This will become a highlight for your family and generate smiles, warm hearts, and maybe even some good laughs.
Celebrate your High School Seniors
In our society, senior year is extremely important. Your scholar is stepping into young adulthood and making choices to navigate their future. It can be a thrilling, bittersweet, exciting, yet anxious time of life for your family. But despite those emotions, don’t forget to celebrate with a graduation where they are formally awarded a high school diploma from you. You can even take it a step further and hire a photographer to take their senior portraits. It’s important to make this time extra special for your senior and give them extra doses of love and attention.
Celebrate Your Transitioning Elementary and Middle School Age Scholars
Celebrate your young scholars advancing from elementary to middle homeschool and middle to high homeschool. These are major transitions, not only centered on the change in curriculum and learning content, but also some responsibilities and opportunities within your family dynamics. These transitions are like “rites of passage” and “promotion ceremonies”. Let your young scholar know how proud you are of them, what they can expect in the coming stage, and celebrate them what they accomplished in their completed stage.
Be sure to capture pictures of all your summer celebrations so you and your family can look back at these sweet celebratory memories of your homeschooling journey!