Never let your schooling interrupt your education.
Written by Kara S. Anderson When I first began homeschooling, no one told me that February was going to make me feel like nothing was working. It actually took years until I learned about the "February Slump," wherein everything feels dark and cold, and you start to wonder if your kids wouldn't …
Kara’s homeschool day in the life (with a 10- & 12-year-old)Read More
Written by Kara S. Anderson I was talking with Melissa Camara Wilkins recently about the holidays, and she asked the best question: “How do you want the holidays to feel?” That took me back a step. I don’t usually think about the holidays that way – I’m too busy focusing on what to do next. I …
Written by Kara S. Anderson I’ve been thinking a lot about my green tomatoes lately. It hasn’t been a good year for tomatoes at the Anderson Ranch. We’ve gotten a couple of precious Cherokee Purples, and a few handfuls of Yellow Cherries, but mostly, our tomatoes have stayed green, or been …
Tomatoes and timelines: Giving our homeschoolers room to bloomRead More
Written by Kara S. Anderson The first step is to not panic. I know – the school year is starting, and your shelf is NOT READY, and that math thing you wanted to try is back-ordered and it doesn’t matter anyway because your oldest says that this year he’d prefer to just not do math at …
Using the bullet journal system for homeschool planningRead More
Written by Kara Anderson Every summer, I take a class. It’s usually just a few nights, and over time, it’s become easier and easier to make room in my life for this quirky tradition. I’ve taken knitting and yoga, photography and felting, and every year when the course catalog comes, I set it …
