Colorful Homeschooler

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 with a friend...do this togethe...

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. 

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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. 

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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! 

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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

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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. 

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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. 

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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, but on compassion increase. Let&apos...

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 understand your nature smart (or picture ...

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, please 5 star me and write me a revie...

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! 

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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! 

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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 you! 

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Come join Kathy for a fun extra episode this week giving her top ten countdown of Superbowl 59's commercials! Do you agree? Post your top 10 to Insta or email! Regular episode out tomorrow! 

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We all on some level know it...there is a loneliness epidemic. Join Kathy as she breaks down ways to grow your social connection, as well as who we need in our squad. 

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We all do it, it's hardwired into us as humans...but do we do it right? Come listen as Kathy discusses the comparison trap and encourages you with new ways to think of this...new things to do to encourage others...and new methods to use comparison to uplift yourself! 

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I, as a homeschool mama, am graduating my oldest in May. Come listen in as I share the emotions, the planning, the ups and downs, of this, my last semester as his teacher. This may be a briefer episode in time, but my hope is that it will encourage and revitalize you to take stock and recognize how short, although difficult, our time in these homeschool trenches is! You can do it! 

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Come join Kathy as she discusses how she completes nature study in the winter, how to stay warm, and a wealth of new, fresh ideas for what to study that can be observable. Here is a listing of some of the resources that we have used in the past and new ones that I have just purchased! 

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Join Kathy as she discusses her process of choosing goals for the year, where she keeps them, her goal domains, and lists out her 2025 goals. Be inspired...share your goals on Instagram so we can all support one another! 

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