Posted by Cindy on June 10, 2009
At co-op, we have a “serious” field day with class competitions and ribbons and awards. A group of friends in our hometown also gets together for a more “casual” field day. Each of the moms prepares a simple game or two – many involving water and relays – and we just have fun together. No awards or ribbons necessary.
This year, we brought potluck food for lunch and our wonderful hostess opened up her pool after the festivities. My children always look forward to this fun day, but the pool made it extra-special!
Little ones enjoyed their own pool while the big kids played games.
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Posted by Cindy on May 19, 2009
Field Day at our co-op is always such a fun day! In their class rotations, the kids go around to seven different activities.
- Tug-of-war
- Long Jump
- Softball Throw
- 50 Yard Dash
- Three-legged Race
- Sack Race
- Obstacle Course
The moms sign up to either work a station or escort classes from station to station. Those who escort also keep records of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place so ribbons can be given out at the end of the day. Everyone gets a participation ribbon so they don’t feel left out if they don’t place in any of the events. The escort also gets to decide who receives special awards at the end of the day for things like Most Enthusiastic, Most Encouraging, Most Christ-like Attitude and a few others.
We have a little awards ceremony and snack celebration to finish the day. It’s a long co-op day, but very much worth it!
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Posted by Cindy on February 19, 2009
The smaller of the two homeschool groups I’m a part of met this week for a Night at the Museum party. What fun it was!
Each child was supposed to choose either an historical character from the movie or a character based on one of the time periods covered in the movie. They were asked to dress like their character and bring some sort of food representing their era. There was a place to display projects they completed about their character/time period and we gave them each a few minutes to share what they’d learned.
After lunch from the food brought and sharing of projects, all the kids nestled in to watch the movie. What a great time!
Do you have any other ideas for academic themed parties like this?
Posted by Cindy on May 23, 2007
I’d love to see a Homeschooling Open House in every town of every state this summer! So many people want to homeschool, but don’t because they “don’t think they can do it”, “wouldn’t know where to begin”, “couldn’t possibly do as well as the public school”, “wouldn’t want their children to miss out socially”. You know all the excuses.
A non-threatening open house where people can come to find out more about homeschooling and get their questions answered by veteran homeschoolers may be just the thing to send those excuses flying out the window and bring new children home to school.
What would an open house include? Well, I’ll tell you what our little community of homeschoolers is going to do in July. Feel free to add more ideas in the comments!
We’re borrowing the community room of our local library for an hour and a half one evening in the middle of July – when people are thinking about the upcoming school year. (Around here, public school starts the first week of August.) About two weeks before, we’ll advertise the meeting in the newspaper and with flyers around town.
On the night of the meeting, after welcoming everyone, we plan to show an excellent dvd put out by HSLDA. Then, we’ll have a question & answer time. (Probably with a very small panel of veteran homeschoolers, as too many people would make for too many answers. Too many answers lead to very confused potential homeschoolers!) Finally, we’ll offer cookies and punch while our guests browse a few information tables and talk with us one on one.
We plan to set up three tables. One with whatever homeschooling catalogs we can get our hands on between now and then. One with a packet for them to take home including HSLDA info, state support group info, local support group info and some helpful websites. The third table will include some varied curriculum for them to look at so they can get an idea of the wonderful choices available.
It won’t be hard. I hope you’ll consider organizing an open house in your area.
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