I want to do a little ceremony for my dcg. She's learned so much this year! She's gone from not recognizing her letters or numbers, to sounding out words and reading a little bit. She's doing very well for where she came from! Anyone have any ideas for a cute little ceremony? It'll probably just be in my house and they may want to invite a few people, not sure. I'm going to do a slide show of pictures I've taken of her over the year for one thing. Anyway, I also need a graduation certificate thing. Know where I could find one of those? Thanks for any ideas you may have!
http://www.geocities.com/homeschoolforms/page5.html here is a diploma. I would make a hat with her, and maybe come up with some special ceremony.
Deena, what a neat idea!!! I bet she is going to feel so special!!!! I like the idea of the hat and the paper gown. She can decorate them too. Perhaps you can hang up a few pictures she has colored or work she has done.
At ps kindy graduations, the kiddos often will sing a song of some sort (or a few). Then they walk across the stage one at a time, by class, and get an envelope and certificate (and a hug!!) from their own teacher. The envelopes I've seen had packets of work for the kiddos to do over the summer to help ease the summertime loss syndrome. They may have a few projects that were done at the end of school, usually something for mom/parents for support and help through the year. My son also had his k-teacher's address and a stationary set so he could write to her over the summer - I thought that was cute, and he did write her (draw mostly) a few notes. She wrote back, too! Umm... some cub scout things we do... when the kids first join and memorize the little promise and stuff like that, they get a badge. This is a special badge, and one that is supposed to remain upside down until they do a good deed. We don't pin it on upside down though, so to avoid those logistics we just turn the kid upside down and pin the badge on while parent holds them (voluntary nowdays because of red tape stuff). When they finish the first rank, usually toward the end of first grade, there are special ceremonies for that too. One of the ones I like is where you drop food coloring onto the lid of, say, a babyfood or canning jar, and let it dry. Have the kiddo close his eyes and hand her the jar of water and put the lid on. Tell kiddo to shake the magic water, and the dried coloring on the lid changes the color. Something about what is old has been made new, the things you've learned provide an almost magical foundation for more learning, yadda yadda. The kids love it. Maybe I'll remember more. Check out MacScouter for lots of ceremony ideasthat you might can adapt for just one kiddo.
Cool ideas, thanks so much! I'm going to check around and see if I can find what ya'll have mentioned! Any other ideas?
