Fun Homeschool Lessons for the First Week of School

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I like to ease back into a new school year with some fun homeschool lessons for the first week of school. We might fill out a poetry form, do a science experiment, or practice grammar with wacky Mad Libs.

My kids also wake up to a back-to-school breakfast on their first day, with fun surprises on the table. It helps my kids look forward to a new school year when they are not so excited to give up their lazy summer days.

A few of the activities we’ve done over the years:

Do some Back to School Mad Libs – I go around the room and assign parts to kids based on their grammar knowledge, then I read it out loud and we laugh ourselves silly

Answer some Would You Rather? questions

Write a Bio Poem about yourself

Hold an I Can’t Funeral

Read The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown and then write an Important Book

Fill out a This is Me! inventory

Take a Multiple Intelligences Survey

All About Me Bag – hand out brown lunch bags and give everyone 5 minutes to fill it with items that represent them

Sticks & Stones– We each got a body outline with our name on it. We passed them around the circle, making sure to add a wrinkle or tear to each one as we passed it. They were a wrangled mess by the end. We then talked about how using our words as weapons does the same kind of damage to each other. “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” Ephesians 4:29

Get an interesting conversation going with Apple Observations

Do a Handwriting Analysis

Explore scientist stereotypes with Draw a Scientist

Learn about scientific method with this M & M Candy Lab (younger kids can graph the candy)

Do an Apple Mummy Science Experiment

Think like a scientist with the Dogs & Turnips activity

Back to School Coloring Pages: 1 2

We haven’t tried these, but they are on my list:

ABCs of Me Booklet scroll down

Back to School Diamante Poem

100% Me Poem

Critical Thinking Logic Puzzles