Back to Homeschool – Celebrate the New Homeschool Year with a Backwards Day

"Back to school" doesn't have the same meaning for homeschoolers that is does for many other families. We don't have to have our school supplies ready for a certain date, and there are no new bus schedules to learn.

However, it's not exactly my kids' favorite day of the year, either. To start our homeschool year off right, my family has decided to make the first day of our return to lessons a funny holiday – Backwards Day.

Here's how you can celebrate your own back-to-homeschool Backwards Day.

Get dressed, backwards. When you and the kids get dressed in the morning, put on all your items of clothing backwards. Since it's just your family and you all look ridiculous, you'll be laughing with each other, not at each other, when you emerge from your bedrooms in your costume for the day.

Walk backwards. If you can do so safely! Try not to bump into each other or step on the cat's tail. (There's no need to make her suffer too!) I do recommend turning around and walking normally down any stairs you may have.

Eat backwards. Switch your meals around and eat your evening dinner for breakfast. Remember to begin with dessert. Then follow with lunch at noon, and end the day with a healthy breakfast.

What else can you do backwards? Come up with your own ways to celebrate Backwards Day together, and turn that dreaded first day of school into something to be anticipated. Perhaps writing your names backwards, talking backwards, reading a book backwards. The sillier the better to make the first day back to homeschool a day everyone will look forward to and remember.

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Denise Willms is a homeschooling mom of two, and owner of WAHM-Articles.com. You can find more information on homeschooling at www.learnhowtohomeschool.com

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