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6th Grade Curriculum Choices

It’s that time of year again! It’s time to share all the new curricula we purchased and have been prepping for a new school year. Last year we didn’t switch out a lot of curriculum, but this year we had more changes than usual. Some of those changes were because…

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3rd/4th Grade Curriculum PIcks
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3rd/4th Grade Curriculum Picks

It’s a new school year so it’s time to talk about our 3rd/4th grade curriculum picks. It’s homeschool so you know how it is, we don’t really stick to one traditional school grade. Stephen by traditional school by age should be in 3rd grade, but we’re doing curricula that spans…

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2nd Grade Round Up
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2nd Grade Round Up

This week is the first week of our new school year so here is a brief 2nd grade round up for last year. Check out our curriulum pics and this mid year update to see what all we chose. Last year we tried some new things and stuck with some…

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Homeschool Declutter

Today I want to talk about the need to declutter your homeschool. I’ve taken some time off from blogging because in general to redo our homeschool room. When we moved into our new home designing the homeschool room was not high on our priority list when it came to where…

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Summer Homeschool

Do you have summer homeschool? We homeschool all year round and take breaks based on my husband’s work schedule. I do tend to take August off so I can plan and prepare the following school year’s curriculum as well. This past school year has been rough on us personally. Then…

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Confessions of a Homeschool Overachiever
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Confessions of a Chronic Homeschool Overachiever

Are you a chronic homeschool overachiever? That’s what I call myself. It’s the positive spin of a type A homeschool mama who always wants to do it all maybe? Every year I want to do all the things. ALL the things. The idea of unschooling is offensive to my personal…

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Top 10 Ways to De-stress your Homeschool
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10 Ways to De-stress Your Homeschool

Today I wanted to bring you my top 10 ways to de-stress your homeschool. Let’s face it, homeschool has its ups and downs. Everyone has bad days, there are favorite subjects and hated subjects and power struggles because it’s hard being the teacher and also the parent sometimes. Even certain…

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Story of the World Volume 2
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Planning Story of the World

Planning Story of the World can be a daunting task. Have you done a full plan for the Story of the World history curriculum? I suppose you can make it as complex or as simple as you want to make it . But for me history is just screaming for…

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Homeschool Planning Prep

Today I want to do a little homeschool planning prep with you. Are you new to homeschool or a homeschool veteran? I have heard many people who have crisis schooled during this pandemic (I don’t think forcing parents to have to teach public school at home is really homeschool) say…

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Easy Homeschool Portfolio

It’s that time of year again and many of you are preparing a homeschool portfolio. Then again, maybe you aren’t. Here in Ohio it seemed like we were in the clear from needing an assessment or an achievement test for next year in light of some Covid 19 legislation that…

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