Adventures of the Kotlii

This year, I have changed our format DRASTICALLY.  After having to leave my mom with a laundry basket of books and a wish for "good luc...

I can't believe that next year will mark our third year homeschooling.  I know it seems dramatic, but being sick made me realize what a ...

Classical Conversations Cycle 1 Science Week 1 and Week 2 cover the classification of living things and the five kingdoms.   Riley has an...

This week's Classical Conversations Cycle 1 Week 2 Lesson Plan Ideas from our community's lesson swap book comes from Musings of a D...

Since starting to home-educate, we've changed a lot of things about the rhythm of our lives.  One thing that remains, though, is my obs...

In June (I think?) I ran for a school board position and I didn't want the first thing on google that came up when people stalked me to ...

What the what? We're DONE with our first year of CC after this week?? Wow. We've been tremendously blessed this year.  I'm n...

Let's just jump right into this, shall we? History: Preamble to the US Constitution In addition to picking up books from the library,...

Tutoring was really fun! I'm not sure how well I did, but the kids and the parents were very kind if I messed up :) I wanted to share ...

This week I'm substituting for a tutor, so that should be a fun experience!  I'm also going to be handling the afternoon class of 6-...

I'm trying to be better about "fun" things for the kids, like crafts and holiday activities.   Since today was leap day, I de...

I can't believe that we're 4 weeks away from the end of our first year of Classical Conversations!! Crazy!! I feel like this has bee...

Yes, yes, this happened in January.  So sue me.  We use a book I picked up at the library, but you can also get it on Amazon .  For the Jan...

Oh my gosh! We've made it 6 weeks! I was worried about my sanity, but I am really enjoying homeschooling and feel like God is really wor...

Logan and Riley have been doing a little bit of complaining lately.  Riley feels like the work we do at home is grossly unfair because ...

Our CC Materials (well, most of them since some were on backorder) arrived this week which meant we could start CC! I started on Tuesday mor...