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2021 Day In The Life Of Our Homeschool

February 24, 2021 Katy 3 Comments

It's time for this year's edition of "What do those homeschoolers do all day anyway?". If you're new around here, we have five kids: Jonah (5th grade), Matthew (4th grade), Hannah (2nd grade), Elizabeth (Kindergarten), and Sarah (3 years old). My husband Jesse is a grad student at Baylor, and I'm the home manager/teacher/writer. This particular day in the life was a Tuesday, and was pretty typical. 6:15am. I wake up. I am the last person awake. That should tell you something about life … [Read more...]

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How To Put Together A Simple Novel Study

February 17, 2021 Katy Leave a Comment

While I was doing my homeschool planning over the summer, I went looking for novel studies for Jonah and Matthew to do. I was looking for something that would combine reading comprehension (did they actually read the chapter and understand what happened), vocabulary, and maybe some other sort of grammar or part-of-speech related question. I didn't really find what I was looking for. What I found were bits and pieces. I found lists of questions to go with chapters in some of the novels … [Read more...]

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2020-2021 Homeschool Curriculum

September 9, 2020 Katy Leave a Comment

Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. Another homeschool year has started, and we are back in the swing of structured learning! As with other years, I like to share what we are using for our curriculum choices this year. We do quite a bit of the classical style of book work, followed by a whole bunch of learning through play and interest-based free learning. … [Read more...]

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2020 Day in the Life of Our Homeschool

February 26, 2020 Katy 8 Comments

Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. It's time for another Day in the Life post! For those who are new here, we are a family of seven. My husband Jesse is a graduate student at Baylor University, and we have five kids. Jonah is 10, Matthew is 8, Hannah is 6, Elizabeth is 5, and Sarah is 2. Here's what our Thursday looked like last week... 6:00am. I wake … [Read more...]

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2019-2020 Homeschool Curriculum

November 20, 2019 Katy 2 Comments

Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. Even though we're well into the school year, I still want to take the chance to share what we're using this year. I always enjoy looking back at these posts to see how things have shifted, so if for no one else, this post is for me. This year I have four homeschool students. Jonah is 10 and in 4th grade. Matthew is 8 … [Read more...]

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Hi there, I'm Katherine, Katy for short. Wife to Jesse, Mom to five kiddos. I drink all the coffee and try to reign in the crazy.

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