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 …
Author: annieandfam
Second grade the second time around
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 …
Planning for an eclectic sixth grade
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 …
May in our homeschool – 2021
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 …
Favorite resources for ancient Greece
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 …
April in our homeschool – 2021
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 …
March in our homeschool – 2021
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 …
February in our homeschool – 2021
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 …
January in our homeschool – 2021
This has been such an interesting academic year for us. While it has been an extremely difficult year for us personally as a family, it has also been a really amazing year for our homeschool. It’s been an interesting juxtaposition and I am so grateful that our time learning together can be a source of …
December in our homeschool – 2020
Ahhh what to say about the final month in a very, very challenging year? This December was different than years prior in many ways. We were unable to celebrate Christmas with our extended families because of COVID and yet we were able to spend a lot of time with my parents, because they’re our bubble …