Colorful Homeschooler
This is a podcast where we discuss productivity, personality, education, and theory. I seek to make things easier and more wonderful for my fellow homeschool mamas. I'm a Christian mom of four special needs boys. I've been homeschooling over a decade, many of them in the Charlotte Mason style, and I seek to be productive in all of the things I put my mind to. Can't wait to share with you!
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Episodes
37 episodes
S1E37 - Homeschool Planning 101-Planning Series #5: Leaving Space in Your Day for Child Self-Directed Learning
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 shou...
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Episode 37
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22:41
S1P36: Crafting Your Perfect Literature List for Your Homeschool Year
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 ...
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Episode 36
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23:40
S1P35: Homeschooling Sanctification-Becoming Who We Need to be to Have a Successful Year, Living Out the Msg of Col 3:12-17
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...
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Episode 35
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22:11
S1P34: Defending Your Heart Against the Lies We've Been Told As Homeschoolers
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." "Homeschooli...
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Episode 34
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24:49
S1P33: Preparing Your Heart for the Coming Homeschool Year
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 dow...
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Episode 33
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19:54
S1P32: Homeschool Planning 101: Planning Series #4 - Choosing My Electives & Planning My Week
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 dissec...
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Episode 32
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21:28
S1P31: Homeschool Planning 101: Planning Series #3-Choosing My Core Curriculum, Questions to Help Guide You
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...
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Episode 31
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21:55
S1E30 - Homeschool Planning 101: Planning Series #2- Weekly Scheduling Options
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 epi...
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21:40
S1E29 - Homeschool Planning 101: Planning Series #1- Yearly Scheduling Options
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. ...
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S1E28 - Social Studies Notebooks in a Charlotte Mason Homeschool (incl Book of Centuries): CM Notebooking #3 of 3
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, in...
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Episode 28
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22:32
S1E27 - Reflecting on this Ending Homeschool Year, A Journaling Episode
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...
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Episode 27
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21:49
S1E26 - Language Arts & Miscellaneous Subject Notebooks in a Charlotte Mason Homeschool: CM Notebooking Series #2 of 3
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 u...
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Episode 26
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18:49
S1E25 - Nature Notebooking in a Charlotte Mason Homeschool: CM Notebooking Series #1 of 3
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 the...
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Episode 25
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21:35
S1E24 What Light Are You Reflecting In Your Homeschool-the Earth or the Son?
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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17:42
S1E23 Planning to Stay Healthy for Spring-Some Practical and Natural Tips
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 se...
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22:08
S1E22- Spring Planning & Productivity for the Homeschool Mama!
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...
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Episode 22
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20:33
S1E21 End of Winter Journaling Exercise- A Homeschool Mom's Healthy Practice to Start Afresh for Spring
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 ...
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Episode 21
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23:24
S1E20 The Beatitudes: Planning Your Homeschool Day Around the Greatest Sermon Ever Preached
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' ...
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Episode 20
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31:00
S1E19 Planning a Successful Homeschool for Multiple Intelligences-Understanding & Implementing the Theory
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 ver...
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Episode 19
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38:41
S1E18 The Cornerstone, the Foundation...What Are You Building Your Homeschool On?
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...
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Episode 18
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33:24
S1E17 Glow Up! How a Busy Mom Plans & Fits It All (Well...Mostly All) In!
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....
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Episode 17
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22:02
S1E16 The Sensitive World of Self-Care: Types, Suggestions for Self-Assessment, & Planning a Little More in Our Lives
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 categ...
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Episode 16
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21:23
S1E15- All the Paper We Cannot Store: Physical Record Keeping in the Digital Age-What Notebooks Do I Actually Use?
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 w...
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Episode 15
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19:26
S1E14 Planning Some Entertainment: My Top Ten Countdown of Superbowl LIX Commercials! Rankings & Commentary
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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Episode 14
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23:00