End of the School Year Activities

Open House

At the end of the year, our school group hosts an Open House where we show off what we've done throughout the year. It is a nice way to show family members what this crazy homeschooling thing is all about! This year the kids put on a play about visiting the Magical Kingdom of Books and sang our theme song for the year. The kids all did a great job and I was so proud!
Each child displayed their artwork and made a snack that they learned how to make in cooking class. Julie (one of the awesome Mom's I get to work with) put together a DVD with all the pictures from our year. Since the Open House was at our house, Tanner gave tours of our school room. He took this job quite seriously and spent a lot of time with each of his "tourists".
Pictures from our school room:

Magical Kingdom Party

The last day of school, we headed to the park to celebrate the completion of our school year. I read "Oh, the Places You'll Go" and had the kids do a footprint activity talking about what they want to do in the future (this went along with Tomorrowland, our final Land in the Magical Kingdom). I was very pleased Tanner put down going to BYU as part of his future plans and both of my boys said they wanted to be a missionary when they grow up!
We played CandyLand-Magical Kingdom style. This was a fun game that quickly reviewed some of the things we learned throughout the year.
Each of the kids were "knighted" when they finished the game. Hunter was so proud to be "knighted" and kept telling everyone "I won!" Little did he know, everyone won!
We also got to make big bubbles, eat pizza, and most importantly PLAY!

After looking at the pictures from throughout the year, we decided to start a new tradition of lining the kids up from youngest to oldest on the first day of school and the last day so we can see how much everyone grows! Here is our end of the year picture:

Silly Kids!

Happy summer to everyone with school-aged kids!