Showing posts with label curriculum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curriculum. Show all posts

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Giveaway: Catholic Woman's Planner

I love the Catholic homeschool community ... you meet so very many amazing, wonderful people!
A few years ago in Colorado, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting and chatting for a long time with fellow homeschooler Michele Quigley. She has that lovely blog, Family Centered Life, co-authored the FREE Catholic CM-inspired curriculum, Mater Amabilis, and also publishes an amazing set of Catholic planners. I love the Catholic woman's planner ... and my dh has used her man's planner and we also love her nature journals.

Well, seems Michele is running a giveaway just in time for Mother's Day: a Catholic woman's planner and all you have to do is comment on her blog -- how easy is that?????? Go check it out ... and if you don't win ... go ahead and order a few of her products -- you WON'T be disappointed!
Oh, and just in case you're interested -- Michele created the graphic above and loves and learns with her 10 (!) children in her spare time! What a woman!

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Homeschool: What We Learn Everyday

Whatever is true,
whatever is honorable,
whatever is just,
whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely,
whatever is gracious,
if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise,
think about these things.






Or at least, try to learn .... 'unhappy

Monday, August 25, 2008

And so it starts ...

Today we start our first day of St. Athanasius Academy for the 2008-2009 year. LegoManiac (9), String Bean (8) and Bam-bam (almost 6) will be our "student body" ... with me as there teacher, companion and co-learner. I love homeschooling, especially since I can steep the days ahead in the rich and vibrant Catholic heritage and teachings our Our Church!

We'll start today with Mass -- always a great way to start the day. Our plan is to head to Leeslyvania State Park after for a bit of nature study, playground time and history. They have some great programs at the end of this week (bees and backyard habitat) which will fit in nicely as an introduction to our science program this year.

We'll head home to work on our aprons. Each year at the start of the school year I like the kids to craft something that we'll use all year: fabric lunch bag, canvas field trip bag, etc. This year, we'll fabric-paint canvas aprons for use during cooking, cooking-math, gardening, craft projects, etc. [We did aprons a couple of years back, but all three have out-grown the "kiddie" ones!]

We'll make a fun lunch ... than a read-aloud for quiet time. Today we'll start Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence by Esther Averill, a great story about Cartier's explorations of the Northeast of the continent which will mesh nicely with our American history unit.

After a chapter or two, I'll pull out all their books and ideas for what we'll do this year. This will be the first time the kids see it all laid out and I'm sure they'll be thrilled with some of the changes this year. One thing, I am trying to get them more self-led with some of their work -- so I have worked out weekly assignments for spelling words, math assignments, copy work and memory work which they will do at their own time (as long as they're done by Thursday evening). If they can't finish by Friday morning, rather than having a relaxed, "specials" day, they'll make up the work.

We'll round off our day with one-on-one mom time, 30 minutes each of working on their chosen electives:
  • Bam-bam will learn all about the history and strategies of Chess
  • String Bean will learn about journalism, creating her own newspaper or magazine (she will also be responsible for this year's family Christmas letter)
  • LegoManiac will research American military history, with a particular emphasis on the U.S. Marine Corps (including joining the Young Marines in September).

Looks like a pretty full, fun day for the little tikes (and Mom!).