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The first day of homeschool

 The first day of homeschool went a little like this.     My mom woke us up at around 9 I think, and she told us to come downstairs and eat the breakfast she made for us. Fried eggs and pumpkin spice pancakes! Once we ate our breakfast, mom had us all gather in the living room and we talked about what we think homeschool will be like, what our expectations are, etc. She said the first step of being homeschooled is to pray. We did that, and then my mom told us to get into the car. We were all confused, but we just went with the flow. While in the car, my mom explained to us that since we are homeschooled, we will have more flexibility then we would if we weren't being homeschooled. She told us we could get any drink from either Starbucks or Bigfoot, and *almost* any size. Alice and Kasey chose BigFoot, and I, obviously, chose Starbucks. Alice got a strawberry italian cream soda, and Kasey got the same except he got blue raspberry. I got a strawberry acia lemonade refresher from Star

the process of deciding homeschooling

    Hi, my name is Emma McMahan and I am a homeschooled 8th grader. What was the process of how I got homeschooled you may ask? Well, here's the story.       My mom, Mandy McMahan, has wanted us to be homeschooled for about 6 years, but my dad, James McMahan, just thought it would be too hard on my mom for her to not only parent 3 kids, but to also do the job of a teacher. After Covid, and the entire school year was online, my mom wanted to homeschool more then ever. My mom kept perusing harder then ever. She made google slides, did homeschool for us over the summer (sorta), talked to my dad about it everyday, and had her homeschool friends talk to my dad about it and help figure it out like we were 100% going to be homeschooled.      While we were on our trip in Maui, Hawaii my mom got an email from something called PEARL (Partnership in Excellence for Alternative Remote Learning) that we were accepted to do some school through it.   PEARL is a program through the Quilcene school