Home Education
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and Montessori
When my first child was about six weeks old, I attended a conference and heard about the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. Everyone at the conference was invited to register for CGS training. I wanted to do so, but I knew that the timing was not right. Thus, I turned to the library and discovered…
Read MoreHappy Feast of St. Anne!
St. Anne holds a special place in my heart. God has blessed me with family and friends who are named after Christ’s grandmother. My in-laws gave me this old picture as a gift. It graces one of our living room walls and reminds me to ask St. Anne and Mary to help me educate my…
Read MoreHappy Feast of St. Anne!
St. Anne holds a special place in my heart. God has blessed me with family and friends who are named after Christ’s grandmother. My in-laws gave me this old picture as a gift. It graces one of our living room walls and reminds me to ask St. Anne and Mary to help me educate my…
Read MoreOur Israel Relief Map
The children and I made this relief map of Israel a couple of years ago. It has held up fairly well, considering Patrick likes to take the pin markers and place them in random locations on the map.
Read MoreOur Israel Relief Map
The children and I made this relief map of Israel a couple of years ago. It has held up fairly well, considering Patrick likes to take the pin markers and place them in random locations on the map.
Read MoreOnly Once
Brigid and Catherine have been counting in their e-mails to each other. Brigid sent the following at the beginning of the week: At Three minutes and Four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07. This won’t happen again in our lifetimes. ~BRIGIDCatherine responded:…
Read MoreStarfish
by Edith Thacher Hurd, illustrated by Robin Brickman A couple of years ago, as I perused the children’s Science section of our local library, my eyes alighted on Starfish and I scooped it from the shelf. Starfish, originally published in 1962 and read by children in Montessori schools, was republished in 2000 as part of…
Read MoreA Child’s Work
“Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants – doing nothing but living and walking about – came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning: would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful…
Read More/A/,/B/,/C/
I have often wondered what one of my children’s pediatricians thought when he wrote the letter “B” on a piece of paper and asked 4-year-old Bernadette, “What is this letter?” I know that he was surprised when she responded, “/b/”. He automatically replied, “It’s b.” I smiled when Brendan told me that one of his…
Read MoreHmmm
As we were making dinner the other night, Catherine said to me, “Mommy, I learn more from reading books than I do from anything else.”
Read MoreCatholic Homeschool Carnival
Mary Ellen is hosting this month’s Catholic Homeschool Carnival. For some wonderful ideas about observing Advent and celebrating Christmas, please be sure to visit O Night Divine.
Read MoreCounting and Number Recognition
Note to self: If a child is having difficulty counting to and recognizing the numbers through 100, teaching said child to count to 100 by tens will not help. However, giving the child a 500 page dot-to-dot coloring book will teach the child to count to 100 with no effort on yours or the child’s…
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