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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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April in our homeschool – 2021

May 4, 2021May 8, 2021 by annieandfam

This year our April was spent focused on Greek history (fifth grade!) and animal legends (second grade!) along with re-joining society as our kids picked up extra curricular activities, my husband and I recieved our first vaccine shots and we ventured to our favorite farm stay and the coast for a weekend adventures. Last month’s …

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March in our homeschool – 2021

April 6, 2021April 8, 2021 by annieandfam

Hello. I am tired. I don’t really feel up to writing a summary of last month’s homeschool, but I do like having written these summaries. So here we go. It may be brief. The anniversary of when the pandemic hit home was March 13 for our family. I had gone to a barre3 class and …

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February in our homeschool – 2021

March 2, 2021March 4, 2021 by annieandfam

February is my least favorite month to homeschool. The days are short, we’ve been stuck inside together for too long and patience is in short supply. Normally February is the month I spend exploring local school Web sites to imagine there is a better way than this homeschool gig. But, thanks to the pandemic, there …

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Right in the thick of the busiest, most expansive part of summer. We’re taking trip after trip this summer, making up for lost time and catching up with people we haven’t seen for years. Last week it was with my husband’s co-workers in Southern California ☝🏻. It’s all good - really, really good. But it’s also requiring flexing socializing muscles that seem to have atrophied. I’m trying to be mindful of taking breaks and retreating into a good book when needed.
More curricula and books rolling in. 🤗 First photo is stuff for my 9-yr-old (grades 3/4 this year). Second photo is for age 13 / 7th grade and third photo is some cute stuff for my kindergartener. We own everything we need for kindergarten (and then some!) but it’s fun to get a few special new books. And lastly, stickers. It’s hilarious how motivated my kids are by stickers.
This morning was my annual Powell’s Books back-to-school shopping trip. Always the most fun. Usually I go alone, but this year I was accompanied by my 13-year-old who was genuinely helpful and accepts payment in graphic novels. I’m planning 7th grade and a 3rd/4th blend (plus kindergarten!) and it’s going to be great. I mean … it’s going to be a lot of things … and great is one of them.
We’re home now and fully recovered from jet lag 😅 and I just wanted to memorialize our trip with this fun map. It doesn’t capture all of the crazy routes and mountain passes we took, but it captures the gist of it. Road trip of a lifetime. 🚗
The crystal clear water of Plansee, Austria. 😍 We had plans to wind down our trip with a few days of kayaking and stand up paddle boarding here but instead the weather was cool, our littlest seriously banged up her knees twice and got her first bee sting. 😢 So we pivoted to resting, doing things we could do while carrying her and visiting our fourth pharmacy of the trip. 😅 (Pharmacies are amazing over here.) Anyway, maybe another time Plansee. You’re gorgeous.
A visit to Neuschwanstein! And all five of us together. ☺️
Thirteen! Happy birthday to our precious girl! 🎈🎂
Forty-three today and 13 tomorrow. 💞 #shesmyfavoritebirthdaypresent
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