As I am getting ready to plan for next school year (in what is hopefully a more organized way than I did last year), I am looking toward being able to put in more activities for various saint’s feast days in our calendar.
It made me think — what are some holidays/special days that you make sure to include in your homeschooling year to study/have parties for/do a special activity about?
It can be something like Valentine’s Day or it can be something like National Donut Day. We just want to hear what some of those days are!
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We generally like to celebrate most holidays, but the ones that we took some time to study were: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Memorial Day, President's Day, and for Earth Day we incorporated a lesson on 'Green Living' into science. For Halloween we did touch a little bit on the origins of that particular holiday.
We love holidays! It's always easy to find craft activities!
We do: Valentine's, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We celebrate:
Valentine's, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We have learned about all of the above in addition to:
earth Day, Groundhog day, and St. Patrick's Day
We celebrate all the holidays and just added Michaelmas, and Martinmas. Next year I hope to get to do May Day, we didn't get around to it this year.
I have a book called Every Day a Holiday by Silvana Clark. It gives tons of great ideas! One of our favorites is National Clashing Clothes Day, the 4th Thur. in January. We have a family competition. We post pics on the blog and let people vote. National Pie Day is Jan. 23rd, so this year the loser got a pie in the face.
April Fool's Day! My mom started it and it has become a tradition… have a weird breakfast/dinner, dress backwards or inside out and find jokes and tricks to play before noon :)