| "Back to school" doesn't have the same meaning | | | | day. |
| for home schoolers that is does for many other | | | | Walk backwards. If you can do so safely! Try not |
| families. We don't have to have our school | | | | to bump into each other or step on the cat's tail. |
| supplies ready for a certain date, and there are | | | | (There's no need to make her suffer too!) I do |
| no new bus schedules to learn. | | | | recommend turning around and walking normally |
| However, it's not exactly my kids' favorite day of | | | | down any stairs you may have in your home. |
| the year, either. To start our home school year | | | | Eat backwards. Switch your meals around and eat |
| off right, my family has decided to make the first | | | | your evening dinner for breakfast. Remember to |
| day of our return to lessons a funny holiday - | | | | begin with dessert. Then follow with lunch at noon, |
| Backwards Day. | | | | and end the day with a healthy breakfast. |
| Here's how you can celebrate your own | | | | What else can you do backwards? Come up with |
| back-to-home school Backwards Day. | | | | your own ways to celebrate Backwards Day |
| Get dressed, backwards. When you and the kids | | | | together, and turn that dreaded first day of |
| get dressed in the morning, put on all your items | | | | school into something to be anticipated. Perhaps |
| of clothing backwards. Since it's just your family | | | | writing your names backwards, talking backwards, |
| and you all look ridiculous, you'll be laughing with | | | | reading a book backwards. The sillier the better to |
| each other, not at each other, when you emerge | | | | make the first day back to homeschool a day |
| from your bedrooms in your costume for the | | | | everyone will look forward to and remember. |