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How my oldest kinda sorta ended up skipping eight grade

September 5, 2023 by annieandfam

I shared on Instagram recently that my oldest child had decided to stop homeschooling and attend high school this fall (she started this past week). And I got several inquiries from people saying, “wait, wasn’t she in 7th grade last year?” Yes, she was. It’s kind of a long story and I thought I’d write …

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Planning for seventh grade

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 by annieandfam

I’m back with another planning post – this time for my 13-year-old, who will be doing 7th grade. We are planning an eclectic year with a really wide mix of resources and experiences, many of which my 13-year-old picked out or at least signed off on. This is the joy of homeschooling an older child …

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Planning for third/fourth grade

August 24, 2022 by annieandfam

Hello! It’s been a long time since I’ve written here and a long time since I’ve shared much about our homeschool in general in a long time. Last year was a challenging one – my husband started an executive MBA, our kids returned to extracurriculars while we navigated Covid-era challenges and for me the cumulative …

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October in our homeschool – 2021

November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 by annieandfam

This fall has been a busy one, and I’m just now getting a moment in mid-November to reflect back on October in our homeschool. September was a wild adjustment to our family’s return to in-person activities and it took some trial and error to find the right combination of activities to meet everyone’s needs (as …

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September in our homeschool -2021

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 by annieandfam

September! Woof. This September was the Septemberiest September I’ve ever experienced. Not only was there the normal adjustment to having regular commitments again after a slow, laid-back summer, but we adjusted to getting places at a set time again after 18 months of having pretty much none of that in our life.  Our family dived …

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Some back to school thoughts

September 2, 2021September 3, 2021 by annieandfam

Our family has had a wonderful summer filled with some local travel, lots of outdoor exploration, family movie nights, time catching up with friends, late bedtimes and late sleep-ins. Now that Labor Day is upon us and the air is cooling off in the evenings, we’re coming to terms with the fact that it’s time …

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Second grade the second time around

August 10, 2021September 2, 2021 by annieandfam

Hi there! I’m here to chat a bit about plans for my second grader for this upcoming school year. This will be my second time teaching second grade. My son is 8 and he has a June birthday, so we actually did a bit of second grade work at the end of last year, because …

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Planning for an eclectic sixth grade

August 6, 2021August 7, 2021 by annieandfam

Hello! It’s been a weird summer here – how are you? This summer we have been prioritizing socializing and mental health, and as a result, not a lot of homeschool planning has been happening over here. I feel like I’ve done zero homeschool planning, but the reality is that I have picked and purchased most …

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May in our homeschool – 2021

June 22, 2021June 23, 2021 by annieandfam

This post contains affiliate links. We have been done with our school year for several weeks now but I wanted to make sure that before I fully move on to planning next school year, I took a moment to write about May. In May I attempted to combine my kids for a joint block for …

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Favorite resources for ancient Greece

May 8, 2021May 12, 2021 by annieandfam

We enjoyed studying Ancient Greece so much and I thought it would be helpful to have a compilation of all of the wonderful books we used during this block. I covered Ancient Greek in a six-week block, with three weeks focused exclusively on Greek myths and the next three weeks focused on history. There are …

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Fitting in our seasonal traditions around a school schedule is going to be a challenge, but a challenge I’m willing to accept because I’m hoping these three will take me apple picking in my old age. 🍎
September has been a wild ride! We’re adjusting to a new schedule, getting a kid on the train before 8 am 😧, starting new homeschool classes, packing lunches, juggling two kids in soccer and sometimes needing to be in two places at the same time. Must be fall. 🍂 I find myself sharing in Stories more - especially homeschool stuff - so come find me there. Also, after sharing that my oldest was starting high school this fall some astute observers reached out saying “wait, wasn’t she in 7th grade last year?” Yes. It’s complicated. 🙃 So I wrote a blog post about her journey from homeschool to high school. Link in bio!
Squeezing every last drop out of summer. Feeling ready to surrender to the rhythms and routines of fall.
I gave myself the gift of not going back to homeschool and back to school all at once, so my littles have another week of summer, but my big kid is off to high school today! 😧😢🤩 Not really sure what to expect from this year, but I know I’ve got great kids and I’ve done my very best to set each of them up to thrive. So here we go 9th grade at school, a 4th/5th grade split at home and 1st grade at home! And I guess Teddy is as close as I’m going to get to having a perpetual kindergartener. 🐶 😂
I’m not sure how wise it was to plan for our last summer trip to run right up the the day before our oldest heads to high school, but the time we spent paddling around this bay restored me in a way few other things do and gave me strength for the big transition that lies ahead. #homeschooltohighschool
A really excellent vacation book stack. 📚 Normally I don’t have four books going at once, but these are all so different from each other and all so good.
Late summer nights on the Puget Sound … a campfire, s’mores, a lost tooth, an owl flying overhead … the good stuff.
Just over here pretending summer’s never going to end. ☀️
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