I would love to see a video on what you plan to keep in your homeschool mom binder and how you organize it!

Good job. We graduated one from our homeschool and he went to a 4 college with no problems. He's married and working, goes fast. Our middle guy is a highschool Jr this year and everything you laid out is great. I paired World History with World Literature, American History with American Literature etc. Our youngest is in 6th grade and we've been homeschooling for 13 years and will continue, Lord willing until our youngest guy graduates. Enjoy the JOURNEY🙏

As soon as I pushed play on this video I started crying!!! I’m crying writing this!!! So proud of you, Ashley! Your daughter seems like such a wonderful young woman, and each of your kiddos are incredibly lucky to have you! Praying for peace, and so much grace for you! “Started from the bottom now you’re HERE!!!” ❤️😭

You’re doing great! I would suggest in your planning to also check local colleges or the college that she’s interested in for entry requirements as well just to be sure they aren’t different. I have found that ours here in SC are more stringent than public school graduation requirements. For instance instead of 4 years of English, they specified that 1 credit each of American and British literature must be included. I used TG&TB language arts but was able to select additional novels to tailor her 10th and 11th grade years for those credits.

I am so happy you are making these videos up through high school. I feel like this is an untapped resource. It’s also a glimpse and encouragement for others to see the what the long haul of homeschool might look like.

This was so helpful. As someone who is a bit scattered, I value your organized and direct approach. You’ve helped me so much over the years. My oldest is 14 with autism. He doesn’t fit the standard mold and I’m wondering if anyone in the comments is trying to plan special needs high school.

Thank good ness you’re still on KZfaq you’ve massively helped me since March so much so we officially deregistered our kids from school 😀 and unprofessional?? Try normal 😀

Thank you so much for doing this video, and the ones following. I appreciate all the time you take to prepare, it is such a motivation for me to keep going and listening to God’s will for my family.

This is almost exactly how I do it, so I'm glad for the confirmation! I've got a rising senior and two rising juniors.

Your homeschooling videos are so encouraging! Thank you for sharing with us.

So glad I’ll have these to come back to in a year! This is something I’ve been a little stressed about! 🙌🏼❤️

Great video. This is what I would've loved before our highschool journey. I have an 11th grader and 9th grader.

Great video Ashlee! Thank you for taking the time to share you wisdom with us. 💜

I have a while before we reach high school, but it’s cool to see how you’re stepping into the planning process. I’m sure I’ll be watching these planning videos in the future, too!

Thank you so much for this! My oldest is finishing sixth grade and the idea of high school looming already has me anxious!

You’re such an inspiration. I’m in the toddler stage of life, but still enjoy videos like this because I plan to homeschool all the way through high school as well.

I think what you’ve done so far is wonderful. Also, you have such a wise perspective, it will all work out and like anything in parenting, it’s a learning curve.

This is so helpful. Looking forward to future videos.

Love it- we’re 1/2 way through our 1st high school year & your tips are wonderful!

Thank you for this...I have an 8th grader struggling and I'm exploring homeschooling. I appreciate your tips and planning ahead for high school...so helpful 👍🏻

Well done! Thank you so much for sharing the REAL! I love it. It’s hard being a homeschooling mama and making these big decisions.

Ashley! Believe it...you’re still on KZfaq because we appreciate you! You have helped me so much this year with my first year of homeschooling.. and I can see how hard you work and how much you care. I greatly appreciate your foresight. My boys are 7 and 10... almost in high school😂 so crazy how quickly they grow. Again... thank you for sharing your real, vulnerable self.. it means so much. You help me feel like someone understands me!

Thank you so much for this!! My son will be in eighth grade next year. We have exclusively homeschooled and high school is right around the corner! 🥰

So so good! Thank you for sharing this. My daughter will be going into 8th grade next year but my brain is already on High school and how to prep etc so this is perfect. It has given a great place to start. Thank you.

Great video! Thank you. I have a current 7th grader so this is great to hear early. I am totally a paper and pen girl too! First time homeschooling so this type of content is a huge help to me :)

Great job!!! You are rocking it! ❤️ 💗

My oldest started 9th grade this year and it was only our second year homeschooling so you can imagine how many uh oh moments I've had. I almost feel like we should have a do-over year🥴 I've said it before and I'll say it again, thanks so much for your inspirational videos and guidance. I'm so thankful you're doing this because I'd be lost without your videos and reassurance that, yes, I can do this!

I sometimes feel bad bc our oldest is the ginny pig for everything 😅. I appreciate you sharing your journey with us so we can use yours as the ginny pig. I say this with love 😂. God bless your family, the best part about all of this is knowing you're guided by God. That takes away all my worry. Sadly though I had my 2 oldest in public school for a few years and I missed out on some things. My oldest son is still catching up bc when I took him out he was 3 years behind and at his reading level. He was reading at a kindergarten level in 2nd grade. So glad I caught it before he got too far in his education. We're gradually getting him on track. He loves to read now. 🙌🏽 Homeschooling and TGTB is such a blessing.

Wonderful video Ashlee! Thanks!!!

Thank you for sharing information. I am in the mists of planning for my son going into high school in the fall for 2021 as well.

I’m in the same boat. My son is in 8th grade, and I’ve already been planning his 9th grade year. He is my first homeschool high schooler. I’m super nervous, but I know if others can do it then so can we. I appreciate your videos and look forward to more to come.

I wish I could "heart" your videos, not just "thumbs up". ; ) Love this, thank you! My oldest is in 7th this year, so you're just a little ahead of me, and I love hearing your process and recommendations.

Very excited for you both. Good luck and god bless 🙏

😢 already? We can't slow it down, we can just watch while they grow! You got this mama! You rock!

Thanks for being so honest! I don’t mind that it doesn’t look professional....that’s actually better and why I like you! You’re just a regular mom making it work!! It’s my first year of homeschooling and my oldest is 10th grade, so I dove right into the deep end!

Thank you for starting these videos! My oldest will also be in 9th next year, and I’m terrified. Make sure you also align your plan to NCAA requirements.

I am still so shocked by the differences in graduation requirements state to state. We live in Connecticut and there really are almost so specifics for homeschooling, so I looked to our local district/state level high school graduation requirements. For my daughter who is in 9th grade this year, she needs 4 English credits, 3 social studies credits, 1 world language, 1 humanities with .5 being in fine arts and .5 in electives, 4 math, 3 science, 2 STEM electives, 1 PE, 1 health and safety, .5 personal finance, 3.5 any additional electives, 1 mastery based capstone project. When you compare that to other states there is a drastic difference. How do these kids compare when applying to college or does none of that matter and if so then why do we push so hard? Makes my head spin. So thankful to homeschool!

This video was very helpful for me thank you very much!! You are doing an amazing job!

Incredibly helpful!!!

THANK YOU!!! This video is a blessing!!! I stress when thinking about how to break all the subjects up and your video made all that stress go away! THANK YOU!!!

Thanks for the info. Looking forward to more😀

Great content. We are planning high school too. I am looking at some high school classes taught on line from a college to help fill our schedule. The price of them is fairly high but maybe a way to get some computer classes, launguage, and higher science with some classmates. Thanks for being vulnerable with this step.

Also, congrats! What an amazing milestone 💗

Very curious to see what you are going to do for high school sciences. Love your channel, thank you for all your content.

Such an exciting time in your lives! Thank you for sharing your process. ❤️ Just wanted to say that we have used The Good and the Beautiful Language Arts for my daughter for her 9th, 10th and now 11th grade years. We both love it and recommend it to any homeschool momma who asks me.

Just got teary eyed when you said you've been sharing since she was in 3rd grade... its just so crazy how fast time flies.

Love this! I start planning for next year around this time, as well! Our Blessed Life has some great videos explaining how she turns a regular course into an honors course.

Bookmarking for the future! This video was so helpful!

Yay! Yay! Yay! I was up at 5 am today worrying about my soon to be ninth grader. I cannot believe I have a child that will be in high school. Keep the videos coming!! Perfect timing 🙂. Just good to know I'm not alone. Thank you thank you!! Off topic, your hair is so beautiful and shiny. Love it.

FYI, for people reading this. Most states have different graduation requirements for homeschoolers. In Texas, we have none. It's up to the parents to do what you think is best. Texas state colleges mostly care about SAT/ACT scores. You could choose to follow what the public school kids do if you want, but it isn't required in Texas.

I'm doing this exact same thing! Except I have TWO who are starting high school in the fall!

Very helpful! Thank you!!

Thank you for this video. My oldest is only in 5th grade and I don't know if we'll keep schooling. We are taking it year by year. But I definitely am keeping all this in mind.

It dawned on me next year I will have an 8th grader and should watch this video 😩 Great info! Thank you!

Thank you for this! My daughter will be in 8th grade next year but I’ve already been wondering about what High School will entail!

Great video! I highly recommend the book Looking for a full ride, which will walk you through the process of college recruitment. The website is the same name. I have a child the same grade wanting to be recruited as a punter, so I’m thoroughly in the mix of high school planning too.

This will be our first High School year coming up as well so this was really helpful and I’m the same way lol pen and paper is the only way 😊

I will also be homeschooling high school for the first time next year! Eek!

Great video!

I’m excited to follow along! My oldest is only in grade 1 lol... but I’m already thinking about high school, whether or not I should continue homeschooling or send to public or private school! I really want to continue homeschooling, but it’s less common in Canada, and university requirements seem scary! Lol. Thanks for sharing you journey!

Love some videos about the high school years! There are not a lot of those on KZfaq❤️ Total aside, you look fantastic in this video, your hair, make-up, even the color of your shirt are on point😊

I'm so glad you made this video. I remember asking you and I was so excited to see this posted. I've had people ask me in the past that I'm going to send the children back to school by middle school and high school right? I don't relate to anyone else on homeschooling so the virtual world is where I find people like you. 😊 I am looking forward to your next video on this. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you. My son starts 9th next year also. So unreal!

Great job! This is what I’m doing for my son. He’s in 10th grade. I recommend Dave Ramsey’s high school course Personal Finance. It was so good. I need a computer class for my son. Please share what you find out !

This video was awesome thank you

This is a great video! My oldest is in 8th grade, and I’ve had our high school plans in my mind for awhile. Some additional tips: in some states, your student can start taking credit for classes as early as 7th grade. This will help space out some of the subjects. Also, I recommend checking out different colleges to get an idea of what their minimum requirements are to be admitted. Some states minimum requirements for high school graduation might not meet the minimum for colleges. Finally, a problem my sister encountered with her oldest when he was in high school: double check with the colleges what specific subjects qualify. He had taken physical science in his freshman year according to his boxed curriculum course of study. Unfortunately, our state university did not recognize this as a qualifying credit for science, so he had to double up one year in order to meet the university’s requirement. Good luck! It seems like a great plan so far!

For computers, switched on schoolhouse usb office applications

In the trenches of 9th now...a few suggestions: Home Ec(household & personal knot)plain and not so plain free online,you print it out. Foundations in personal finance by Dave Ramsey. Drivers Ed.com for drivers ed(they mail you certificate when you complete). We started Teaching textbooks for math and are in Learn Math Fast now.....impressed! Rainbow resource, blue collar homeschool,timber doodle , outschool are great resources. Biology - Biology 101 series is VERY good. Just remember to enjoy this time and not make it like public school...we learned the hard way

I usually don't notice things like dogs scratching, didn't notice them in this video either, for me, you mentioning it was more distracting LOL (but I know I'm not a sensor and many viewers are) not going to lie, the ring lights in the glasses was throwing me a bit though LOL but you took them off right after I was being distracted... Perfect timing! :)

I'm so impressed with your way of home schooling. I have seen so many home schooling vlogs & I worry about them. They don't seem to take schooling all that serious. If the mothers don't want to do it that day they just take off & go to the park. Kids are just playing around. I have not heard one mother say they checked with their state to see what is needed to graduate. Are there any qualifications the parents need to home school? There is really nothing wrong with public schools. My granddaughter went to public school & she gradutated from college with a master degree as space engineer.

Great video...I even liked the lighting...✨kept the focus on you! We are just two years in to homeschooling a 9th, 7th & 5th grader here. My fourth, the eldest has already graduated. So far, I highly recommend TG&TB, Teaching Textbooks and Masterbooks. We are also taking French and I would be very interested to learn which computer program you’ll soon recommend. Thanks again for your continued presence online. I ‘m so happy each time a video of yours ‘drops.’ Out of curiosity, does your homeschool have a name? Maybe Grace & Grit Academy - or no? 😍

Our daughters are the same age and grade. I am def feeling the pressure. This is my third year HS and little by little I have been feeling more confident. I love your encouraging videos. Does your state have dual enrollment? I am looking into it, but feel a bit torn as you say it is important to enjoy the process and not feel rushed. Thanks for sharing your experiences. God bless you and your beautiful family. 🥰

Can you do a video on what other curriculum you tried out in 8th grade? And did you decide to keep using them?

Definitely needed this!! What are you planning on for History? Thanks so much

Thanks Ashley! I have an 8th grade daughter too, and I found your channel when I decided to pull her from public school in the 5th grade. You've been mentoring me through this whole journey and I'm so grateful for you. I'm so lost with High School! This will help me get started. Can you explain what is involed in making a transcript? I have no idea what that will look like.

I am walking this journey right there with you and planning in a similar manner. My oldest is an out of the boy kid and I am not sure if he is college bound. However, I want to prepare him if he decides to go that route.

Our local high school is on a block schedule, so they do a total of 8 classes per year.

My daughter is going into high school this year. She is also my oldest so this is all new for me too and a little scary.

Ashlee, do you have any idea what you are going to use for history for your oldest in 10th grade? Will you stick with TG&TB?

Such a good idea to schedule in ACT practice. My husband tutored kids for the SAT/ACT before he went to Chiropractic school a little over a year ago. He only missed one question on the SAT, but he went to a prep school, and they started studying for the SAT in middle school. (And he's Asian, so there's that too 😂) But we decided to have our daughter begin casually studying last year (6th grade). She studied about 20 min twice a week. She decided that she wanted to take a forensic science class at Johns Hopkins, so she took the ACT at the end of the year. She did well and was accepted into the CTY program. But really, so much of the test is...learning the test and time management. My daughter did well because she knew how to take the test. I honestly think standardized tests are stupid 😂, but educationally, we see it as an opportunity for 💰💰💰. Studying regularly and early can earn thousands of dollars in scholarships. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I have a question on tgatb. Do you notice over time if they start writing openers in their journeys themselves without the books help? Is this program mastery or spiral?

Good luck! Usually Algebra taken as an 8th grader can count as a credit and often Foreign Language year 1 could count in 8th as well. Have you looked at that.

We used BJU French 1 and it did not start at the beginning of what it should have been

What did you end up using for Spanish and typing? Thanks!

Congrats on getting to high school!! Can't wait! I have a 3rd/5th grader. Pen/paper girl here too! All the way! Were your schools graduation requirements hard to find?

My son is finishing fifth grade this year. I'm wondering what science you used in middle school to help your daughter prepare for high school. Also, what type of electives did your children do in middle school? And, did you use TGATB history all through middle school or transition to something that used any sort of testing?

Is this the public school requirements or homeschool requirements for your state?

Thank you for this video. My state does not give diplomas for homeschooling graduates. I want to do online school so everything is accounted for and my kids can get diplomas from an online academy. Gotta call HSLDA for some guidance with that!

We are ditching curriculum. We are going to learn what we want.

Great video! Silly question...what is BJU?

It would be so much easier to plan high school if we could peek into the future and see what they want to do in 4 years. My oldest is in 9th grade. Since our state graduation standards are low and have some weird requirements I looked at what our state university and local Christian university require of incoming freshmen and based my plan off of that. My 2nd oldest will be a freshman next year. Since he plans to spend his last 2 years of high school in a vocational school (veterinary technician) which will be elective credits we are counting a couple of his 8th grade classes (Biology and Algebra I) on his high school transcript. Also after this year we are definitely changing some of our curriculum choices. I will say that the amount of time high school courses take has surprised me. Especially since we only school 4 days a week. I will not give up our co-op day. It is very important for our whole family to have that one day a week of normal social interaction. And while his classes are not anything I feel I can include on his transcript (maybe elective but only 28 hours a year so idk) he is still learning.

Are you registered with your state or through an umbrella ( asking because our state doesn't make up the transcript and requires testing ...while the umbrella will do that for us )

My son will be starting his 9th grade year as well. I am feeling somewhat sure of most curriculum choices but a couple I am still out on. One being science. We have done some BJU in the past too. Curious if you have looked at Shormann science courses? I enjoy all the videos and I look forward to learning alongside as we plan and navigate high school. P.S. I get very weepy too!!

What would you say are a most for a homeschoolmom binder?? Thanks for all the info btw

I have an 8th grader this year. I'm a bit scared. Lol

I have started planning my LAST high school child! 😭

Its six months later and the year is about to start. Are there other videos to the highschool series? I'm not seeing them but wanted to know if I was just missing them. Lol

I would like to quickly throw out there that TGTB high school Language Arts curriculum includes credits for Art and geography if doing all of their high school levels

Will she be taking history in 9th? Or is that not required?

No social studies class?