You're listening to Skalais Sisters, episode number eight.

Welcome to Skalais Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama,

who seeks to learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow.

Scalay Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the trenches

of classical homeschooling, who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it

all done.

I'm your host, Brandy Vensel.

You can find me at Afterthoughts.

That's my main blog.

And also teaching reading with Bob Books, which is where I keep my line of printable phonics lessons.

Today's co-host is Misty Winkler.

Misty is a second generation homeschooler with five kids and a love for projects.

She writes about feeding a family at simplified pantry,

about homeschooling and homemaking at Simply Convivial, and about organizing attitudes at simplified organization. This episode is sponsored by Plan Your Year. Plan Your Year is the homeschool planner that shows you how.

It walks you step by step through creating a homeschool plan unique to your home, your kids, your family.

There are over 40 printable planning pages plus an 80-page planning guide where Pam walks you through creating your plan. Nothing ever expires,

and you get free updates every year. It's the only homeschool planner you will ever need.

Check out a free sample path of planning pages and more info at freehomeschoolplanner.com.

In today's episode, Misty and I use Aristotle's Micamakian Ethics to discuss the connection between habits and virtue, and then proceed to convince ourselves to work on shoring up good

habits over the summer to pave the way for a better school year.

We also discuss a question on assessment sent to us by Amanda Venema from His New Day.com.

And a big shout out to Amanda for being the first to use our recorded message system.

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