This is a post that should have been written LAST June (2024!), but summer was busy and then a new academic year was underway and then the holidays came and went and now here we are. Somehow I wanted to jot down for my future self a few highlights of 6th, 4th, and 1st grade for our three oldest, and then, if I get going with this, I'll go ahead and do this past year, too -- 7th, 5th, and 2nd. It was rather different having a first grader for the third time around than it was the first time around with one school-aged child. On the one hand, I'm more aware than ever that first grade is an incredibly important and wonderful time of growth, but does not need to be jam-packed to be full, and good, and more than enough. On the other hand, I was worried that with a sixth grader and a fourth grader, I might in fact end up doing too little with my first grader just due to the tyranny of the urgent with the older girls. I was incredibly grateful in this regard for our homeschool collabo...