Colorful Homeschooler

Join Kathy as she shares her emotions and reflections right before her first homeschool graduate, her oldest, leaves for six months. Vulnerable and honest, come and be encouraged that you, also, can go the distance!  Follow me on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/colorfulhomeschooler/profilecard/?igsh=ajNwdTlmZ2NqeW84 Please leave a written review and follow the show...new episodes every Tuesd...

Come join Kathy for a brief episode encouraging you to save space for all of the many iterations of your child. How to make time for all of the messy and not drown in it yourself.  Follow me on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/colorfulhomeschooler/profilecard/?igsh=ajNwdTlmZ2NqeW84 Please leave a written review and follow the show...new episodes every Tuesday.  Write me! What do you want to h...

Join Kathy as she shares the methods that she has used in her 10+ years of homeschooling to allow space for self-directed learning by each student, all while maintaining and promoting a rigorous homeschool schedule. Kathy goes into why you should leave space for self-directed learning, and then shows you how you can do so and still "check your boxes" for the most common subjects. Show yo...

Did you ever get stuck on which titles to include in your child's required reading? Their free reading? As a homeschool parent, have you always been a reader? Join Kathy as she goes over the way she crafts her literature list each year for her boys-the questions she asks herself and some of the resources that she has used. Be encouraged! You are the perfect teacher for your child. Resources f...

Continuing our series on preparing for the new homeschool year upon us, Kathy dives into the passage of Colossians 3:12-17, breaking it down into bullet points to hang on your wall or tape in your planner. How do we continue to take that active role in our sanctification (becoming more and more like Jesus) through our homeschool day? Listen in as we deconstruct the passage and then practically wor...

As we slide into another homeschool year, let's confront the lies that we have been told, or told ourselves, as homeschoolers. "You can't do it." "There's only one way to do it." " You have to be a certified teacher to do it well." "Homeschooling will produce perfect children." "You don't look the right way to homeschool." &quot...

Kathy is back! Check out new episodes every Tuesday!  Join Kathy as she discusses how she prepares her heart for the coming homeschool year. Either way, it will arrive. Can you meet it with fresh vision and peace? Kathy breaks it down so that you can.  Share this with a friend who needs encouragement... Follow me on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/colorfulhomeschooler/profilecard/?igsh=ajNwd...

Come join Kathy as she discusses how to select and plan for your electives for the year. She offers targeted questions to help walk you through the choices, design your own or purchase, how to do each of those options well, etc. She then dissects her visual way of planning out each child's schedule for the year and how to schedule each book you will be using. New to homeschooling or a veteran...

Come join Kathy as she goes over some targeted questions to help you select and plan for your core curriculum (English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math) for your homeschool year. Go through any curriculum you already own, how to search for new curriculum, and how to source options for purchase. Be encouraged. You can do it!  Reflection Episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2422800/ep...

Have you wondered what weekly scheduling looks like for other homeschoolers? Join Kathy as she discusses the difference between traditional, block, loop, checklist, relaxed, or unschooling weekly schedules. Follow the show and auto download episodes...please leave me a review on whatever platform you listen on.  First episode of the series, yearly scheduling options: https://www.buzzsprout.com/242...

Come join Kathy as she lays out the yearly scheduling options before you as a homeschooler. Have you ever wondered what traditional, year-round, calendar, sabbath, loop, or block scheduling look like? Tune in each week for our planning series. Next week, weekly planning options!  Productivity for the homeschool mama episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2422800/episodes/16271999 Biblical Concept of...

Come join Kathy for the final episode in our Charlotte Mason notebooking series. What notebooks can be found in Charlotte's volumes and how were they kept in her Parent's Union schools? This episode investigates the social studies notebooks, including the Book of Centuries, Citizenship notebook, as well as the Table of History, Century Chart, and the Calendar of Events. We also deep dive...

Come join Kathy as we reflect on this ending homeschool year. Take out your journal, grab your favorite beverage, put on some calming music and look back with some guiding questions on the year coming to an end. This will prepare you for the upcoming planning episode for the next school year. How can we look ahead without compassionately analyzing the year coming to a close? Take a listen! Share w...

Come join Kathy as she dissects Charlotte Mason's philosophy through her words and practices for language arts notebooking. Kathy also goes into various other subject notebooks as well as a few Charlotte suggested for the mother to keep. Join us in two weeks for the conclusion of the series going over Social Studies notebooking in a CM homeschool.  The Living Page by Laurie Bestvater: https:/...

Come join Kathy as she unpacks and explains Charlotte's quotes (and use of in her PNEU schools) of the nature journal. Walk through the scaffolded approach that was used in the Parent's Union for these journals and what else was included in them. Come back next week to continue the series with Language Arts notebooking that Charlotte Mason used and wrote about.  My notebooking episode: h...

Join Kathy as she delves into the pink moon of April. Where does the moon get its light? What is it reflecting and how does this impact our homeschooling journey every day? What light are you reflecting? Leave a written review after listening!  Follow me on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/colorfulhomeschooler/profilecard/?igsh=ajNwdTlmZ2NqeW84 Please leave a written review and follow the sho...

Do you and your family get sick around season changes? Join Kathy as she discusses why, and then goes through some practical advice: supplements, herbal remedies, and external aids like essential oil diffusions and herbal baths, to make this seasonal change your healthiest one yet!  Episode 21: Spring Journaling episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2422800/episodes/16845857 Zulay milk frother: http...

Want to get the most out of this spring? I offer questions and suggestions, as well as some poetry to get you in the mood for bursting green life! Check in on your goals, how have you been using your word of the year? Let me help you tackle the spring with peace and efficiency and prepare you for summer, right around the corner.  Planner : https://www.etsy.com/listing/1881384632/beautifully-illust...

Come listen in as Kathy breaks down some refreshing prompts as well as the different types of journaling that you can take part in. Prepare your mind and heart for spring! Spring clean your emotions with some reflection.  Referenced in the episode: All the Paper We cannot Store episode:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2422800/episodes/16545241 Beautiful Spring journal: https://amzn.to/4ldp1Wd Follow m...

Join Kathy as she digs into Matthew 5, The Beatitudes. She sifts them down to today's language, showing how each one builds upon the other. She then speaks specifically to homeschool moms and dads, giving her version of The Homeschool Parents' Beatitudes. Let's plan our day around being one who follows this Scripture. This way of planning won't focus on productivity increase, b...

Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory can help explain so much about your child, your student, and yourself! Come listen in as Kathy describes each of the intelligences and then, as usual, gets super practical with measurable action verbs for each, as well as a breakdown for each one with a specific learning goal. Use this as a homeschool parent, or just as a parent, and better unders...

In masonry, what is the purpose of a cornerstone, of the foundation? What other stones are necessary in the construction of a home built to stand the test of time and storms? Join Kathy as she discusses what these stones are, what they mean for a Christian's walk, and how to make sure they are forming the base of your homeschool, your parenting, your life! Share this episode with a friend, pl...

Have you found it difficult to fit in a beauty routine? Are you looking for fresh inspiration on how to fit what's important to you into your busy life? Come listen in as  Kathy explains how she fits in her whole beauty routine. Find a new product or an exciting time saver!  Below are Amazon affiliate links with some amazing discounts to spruce up your beauty routine... Garmin Watch:  Black:...

It's a goal of mine to learn about self-care and add more in on a regular basis, how about you? Come listen in as Kathy describes the five categories of self-care, asking some guiding questions to help you assess how you are doing in each category, and gives some personal suggestions on ways to add more of it in. Take care of you so you can take care of others!  Follow me on Instagram!  https...

Are you a "collector", the term used to refer to those who collect snatches of their life in notebooks? Join Kathy as she discusses what notebooks she actually keeps to maintain her "liturgy of an attentive life". Perhaps you will be inspired with a new record keeping book for yourself, or just enjoy listening to those someone else is inspired by. Either way, there is space for...