How do you celebrate your child’s elementary graduation?

[Anonymous]

My oldest child will be graduating from elementary school next week. The school is having some sort of virtual graduation followed by some in person party at school.

How would you celebrate?

1. Family only dinner. Maybe some balloons at home.
2. Small backyard party with a few of child’s closest friends
3. Family friend party (have not thrown or attended one since covid)
4. Hangout for his friends only on a Friday night
5. Outing to a place like Top Golf, paintball or Dave and busters
6. Nothing. It is just elementary school.

[Anonymous]

We had ice cream and a fun dinner.

[Anonymous]

My in-laws will be in town for our kid’s ceremony. I am ordering a cake and having one other family of four over in the backyard. Just a little thing to mark the occasion. I think that’s somewhere between 2 and 3 on your list.

[Anonymous]

We’re going all out and having a big celebration with our Framily outdoors. It has been a terrible year and it’s our chance to finally celebrate and recognize DC’s efforts during the past year.

[Anonymous]

Something smallish. Like immediate family only with a cake. I’ll make a speech at dinner. We’ll play a board game. So the evening will be bigger than typical Wednesday nights. But that’s it. I will try not to use the word graduation. That only happens after grade 12!

[Anonymous]

We plan on having a BBQ, balloons and decorations, cake etc. Our family, including grandparents.

[Anonymous]

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It's what we've always done for 5th and 8th grade graduations.

[Anonymous]

6. They're not graduating from anything. I have a 5th grader. We may take him out for lunch or ice cream on the last day of school.

I also have a 12th grader who is actually graduating. She'll get dinner out and a party.

[Anonymous]

Pizza and ice cream with friends. Kids were going in different directions - Different MSs, two moving from the area. Then they hung out in our backyard until parents picked them up. It’s not a graduation but it is a passage.

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[Anonymous]

I guess I don't really understand option 2 (backyard party with kid's friends.)
Wouldn't most the friends also going to be graduating elementary? Does each student have a party? Wouldn't that just be weeks and weeks of non stop graduation parties?

[Anonymous]

My kid was in 5th grade last year. We didn’t do anything except our traditional last day of school ice cream that we do every year. It’s fine to celebrate but not necessary for elementary. High school is different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My oldest child will be graduating from elementary school next week. The school is having some sort of virtual graduation followed by some in person party at school.

How would you celebrate?

1. Family only dinner. Maybe some balloons at home.
2. Small backyard party with a few of child’s closest friends
3. Family friend party (have not thrown or attended one since covid)
4. Hangout for his friends only on a Friday night
5. Outing to a place like Top Golf, paintball or Dave and busters
6. Nothing. It is just elementary school.

We just took our kid out to lunch after the ceremony/ just the kid and us, no siblings. It felt special enough, even at Silver Diner or wherever. Don’t set the bar too high now or you’re stuck for MS and HS and college!

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[Anonymous]

Our neighborhood usually has a end of school year gathering at the playground. If DD chooses, she can also go get ice cream with her friends.