Saint Anthony of Padua Movie

Watch now a full featured Movie in Spanish on St. Antonio de Padua- 6 parts each approx. 10 minutes (Sorry no subtitles in English)

Part 1

Part 2 St. Antonio

Part 3 St. Anthony continued

Part 4 Saint Anthony Continued

Part 5

Part 6

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See All that You Can Do With Notebooking and Lapbooks

Just what is notebooking?

That was my question the first time I heard about it.

Grab a cup of coffee sit back with you kids and watch these videos on lapbooking or notebooking they should help explain and give you a better understanding of the concept.

If you already know about notebooking then click the free resource link to find out all about what my homeschool mom friends are talking about. Free resources for Notebooking pages

Sample of States, Insects

First Lapbooking Adventure Doing Lap books with themes.

OKAY so how do I start. The kids can go play now, mom get another cup of coffee.

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My List – Free Science and Nature Study

PharmaOmega Learn is designed for school-aged children who need omega-3 to help them focus and do their best in school.

Interactive Homeschool Fun and Learning find hours of Educational Website for Science, Nature Study, Spaces Exploration and Environment.

ll the activities listed below are free of charge. You may be asked occasionally on a site for your email address, if it wasn’t a safe site it would not have made it on my list!

More of my lists are coming soon and being updated I hope you enjoy them.

4H Virtual Farm

http://sites.ext.vt.edu/virtualfarm/main.html

Learn everything about living on a farm. Dairy, Beef, aquaculture, Poultry, Horse Farm, wheat Farm; view videos, live cam, see live chicks hatched, read all about farming. Meet other Farm kids.

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Virtual Forests

http://sites.ext.vt.edu/virtualforest/

Virginia Cooperative Extension virtual Forest

Click the Tree Detective help identify trees or solve mysteries.

Old Field Succession see how the land is used.

Photosynthesis interactive; very good educational tool that can be used for teaching photosynthesis.

Fun inviting learning activities.

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Zoos

Smithsonian Zoo Animal links

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/default.cfm

They have live webcams and audio to hear what the animal sound like. They also offer photogalleries.

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Smithsonian National Zoo

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral/walk/default.cfm

At Conservation Central there are live webcams and audio to hear what the animal sound like. This website also offer photo galleries. The fantastic multimedia section comes with or without narratives. Great for the Charlotte Mason types to use on a rainy day. There are other selections too, such as, Dirt Detective Tree and soil, Forrest layers, Tree ID walk, Observing Seasonal Changes.

Have Fun with this one!

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Bird Habitats and sounds

Your family with have fun with these sites and use them time and again.

Bird Calls by Habitat

http://www.learnbirdsongs.com/habitats.php

Country, Forest, Cityscapes and wetlands

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Bird Calls Audio only

http://www.enature.com/birding/audio.asp

List of several birds by category with their calling sounds, Great for testing Bird lovers

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Fish Game

http://www.epa.gov/fishadvisories/kids/arcade.html

Find and catch the fish that are safe to eat and throw back the fish that are not safe to eat. You think it’s just a game until you realize the types of fish that are safe and which types of fish are not safe to eat. Good Game.

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Nature Sounds – Natural Museum in California

http://www.museumca.org/naturalsounds/home.html

Listen to what nature sounds like in California – from the Great Basin, Coast Mountains, desert, coastline and more. Learn about the animals that live in those areas of California.

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Field Guide Indexes

http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/index.asp

All types of critters and animals. Find a field guide to just about everything, insects, mammals, reptiles, butterflies, trees, seashore, wildflowers, spiders, ocean, poisonous, dangerous, endangered and native plants.

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National Geographic Videos

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/

Kids Sections -
Animals

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/kids/index.html

Games Animals and stories

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Activities

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Activities/

Science – Equinoxes, Moon, Solar System, Sun, Solar Blast, Missions to Mar, voyager, Hubble Telescope. Also learn about the environment, travel and culture tells about different countries and hurricanes in the special video section.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/science/index.html

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Yellowstone National Park Service

http://www.nps.gov/yell/forkids/index.htm

Main Kids Page includes – website scavenger hunt, Alphabet animal and sounds live book, online Coloring book, print coloring pages, puzzles, word games and Wolf Quest

Game: What’s the difference between Antlers and horns? Match the horns and Antlers to the animal.

http://www.nps.gov/yell/forkids/ahdiff.htm

Go on an electronic Virtual Field Trip to the following locations

http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/

Go on a Geyser Quest, Bison Roam and Yellowstone Exposed field trip. Sounds like fun check it out!

No cost it really is free.

National Park Service

For home school kids who can’t leave the area this Web Ranger option with over 50 interactive games, would make summer a little more fun. You must sign up before you can join in the fun yet, definitely worth it and it’s free.

http://www.webrangers.us/index.cfm

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Printables from National Parks

Find all the Junior Ranger zones at http://www.nps.gov/learn/juniorranger.cfm

Become a Junior Ranger with a Free printable Activities book – Lincolns Historic home

http://www.nps.gov/abli/forkids/junior-ranger-booklet.htm

Big Cypress National Preserve Florida

http://www.nps.gov/bicy/forkids/beajuniorranger.htm

Bandlands in South Dakota – Fun Pages -

http://www.nps.gov/badl/forkids/parkfun.htm

Be a Fossil hunter; learn about Geology, Animal tracks, make an Armored Mud Ball and more.

Find more fun at the National Parks Fun pages for a park near you.

http://www.nps.gov/learn/parkfun.cfm

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Free Public Domain Images from Yellowstone National Park

http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidefile/index.htm

Use them for your school Projects! What a resource!

Public Domain – over 13,000 in the collection; over 23 categories main categories and several subcategories to choose from of birds, animals, people, plants, scenery, weather,

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Free Sound Effect

http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/animal.html

Teach your children what animal’s sound like. This site has a wide selection of animals, just click and listen; very simple. You could also download the sounds if you’re interested in doing an audible story and need the sound of an animal to enhance the story.

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Free Fishing without a License 2009

To Kick off National and Boating Week the Several states are permitting families to fish without a license on June 6th, 7th, or 13th and a few other dates. Check with your local state for dates.

Fish Free without a License in Georgia on these days!

Georgia wildlife.org

June 6, 2009

June 13, 2009

September 26, 2009

Several other states are having a Free Fishing weekend for families the same weekend. So check your state information to find out if your state is one of them.

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Catholic Book Fair and JClub Great Catholic Kids Website by Pauline Sisters

Pauline Kids, the children’s imprint of Pauline Books & Media, has recently launched a new book fair program for Catholic schools called JClub. The JClub program provides students, teachers, and parents with quality Catholic reading material meant to nourish and enrich the faith of young readers.

The JClub book fair program includes a book fair list filled with supplemental Catholic material—stories, saint biographies, comics, games, activities, a chat with Jesus, and more. Along with this engaging and educational book fair list, Pauline Kids has included a companion website called JClub: A Catholic Place for Kids. The website is filled with video prayers and meditations, saint-a-day biographies, stories, polls, quizzes, games, and information for parents and teachers, along with printable teaching resources.

The JClub program includes the option of utilizing media literacy workshops in order to learn how to reach children through the media they are bombarded with every day. Sr. Rose Pacatte, Director of Pauline Center for Media Studies, provides articles for parents and teachers on the topic of media literacy, also known as “media mindfulness,” and how to utilize media as an educational tool on the JClub website.

JClub offers the book fair in several program formats, which can be found online at http://www.jclubcatholic.org under the “Bring Us to Your School” section. If you are interested in learning more about JClub or hosting a book fair, please contact Pauline Kids via email at jclub@paulinemedia.com.

Pauline Books and Media is the publishing house of the Daughters of St. Paul, an international Congregation of women religious whose mission is evangelization through the means of social communication. They operate fifteen retail book centers in North America and a publishing and distribution operation in Boston, Massachusetts. Arriving from Italy in 1932, the Daughters of St. Paul have been in America for over seventy-five years.

Contact:
Pauline Books & Media
http://www.jclubcatholic.org MA, 02130 US
Sally Feller - Marketing Associate, 617-522-8911

Here is a blogspot for their childrens books

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Coupons for Groceries

I had to dust off the cobwebs have a cup of Mystic Monks Coffee and try to remember all the different ways I save money using coupons and refunding. Now with times being what they are it looks like it’s back to clipping coupons in tight times.

I am the queen of going to every store or nearly every website to find the best possible price on an item I am considering purchasing. Of course I usually end up back at the first location only to find the first thing I saw was no longer on sale or gone but, NO more. I found a nice little website that called Beat My Price .

The way it works you enter in the name of your item, the location you found it, and the price then there search pulls up all the same items (or mostly) and their prices. It worked pretty well. Google still did pretty much pull up the best prices but at least with Beat My Price I didn’t have to sift through all the other sites to locate what I was looking for.

If you have FireFox as you Web browser you may want to put the following add on to it. It’s from Retail me not.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4980 This add on automatically notifies you if the website your on has coupons codes available for you to use.

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Grocery Coupons

Groceries, we can’t live with them and we can’t live without them!

So if you have a chance to join in the grocery game of coupons, refunds and rebates, I know people who have the stores paying them for their purchases.

If your like me and you just want to find and print coupons you use in the stores then your best bet is Coupons.com They have such a wide selection of grocery coupons.

Retail Me Not is a fabulous site too. Enter the Stores Web address or Keyword like Kraft Macaroni and Cheese or Kroger and you get coupon codes and printable coupons. You could also go directly to the Kraft website however you have to just through hoop and sign up on their mailing list. By the time you do this you often forget why your there.

Smart Source is probably the #1 website for coupons. You can print your coupons easily and up near the top right side of their site is a local button. If you click the local button, virtually all the items in sale at your local area grocery stores will pop up with everything they have on sale. Click the items you want then it has a feature to print a grocery list with where and how much. It’s really cool. You can also get on their email list for weekly deliveries in your inbox.

If your looking for Kroger coupons to print or in store specials? Then you can go straight to the Kroger website and find weekly savings at your local store. You find the coupon your want click “save to card.” When you go into the store, buy the product and use your Kroger Plus card, the manufactures coupon from their website is activated on your card. Kroger also offers a new feature called Cellfire, it saves the coupon to your cell phone.

Here is a list of other grocery stores that offer their own weekly ads, manufactures coupons and store locator for local specials.

Albertson’s

Ingles – offers coupons and weekly specials.

Publix – Just enter in your zip code to locate the Publix nearest to you. Receive all the specials and coupons available.

Betty Crocker - just because we use Bisquick so often for pancakes at breakfast

Find Grocery Store Specials and Coupons near you!

Here is a link you are going to want to investigate. It is the Ad circular which list all of the grocers and their specials for your local area while offering it to all across the country.

Not into grocery shopping? No problem

Try this company and please let us all know what you think of them.

Other Coupon Deals I found that might be helpful to an active homeschool family.

Receive a 10% Off discount code when you sign up for email updates at CrayolaStore.com!

If you like sewing check out the link below.

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Send a Fun Ecard

Just in time for Graduation season!

To go to Catholic E-card greetings click here.

Sometimes sending a catholic ecard is not always appropriate for an friend or relative. And, it can be so difficult to find a fun free e-card. Here are some links to sites that won’t disappoint you. They are egreetings that are clean, fun and light.

This selection of free ecard sites can easily be used by both parents who want to inspire someone or your kids who may want to send messages to pen pals across the country or world or next door.

When my son was in Iraq his wife and children used Smilebox Free ecards that included photos and videos, plus their own music to keep him up with his children’s daily activities.

For Inspirational and Christian based ecards I have found Dayspring.com to be one of the best.

This is not Catholic but it’s a wonderful e-greetings site and you can’t beat FREE.

For kid style e-greeting site that girls will love!

whether your child has an American girl doll or not, they will especially like sending free ecard from American girl ecard from American Girls ecard central.

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Things to do this Summer

Kids Bowl Free All across the nation bowling alleys are offering 2 free games per day to kids 15 years old and under. Check this link to see which bowling alleys in your state are offering this deal. Here’s how it works. They will begin to by emailing you tickets for the week every Sunday morning. There is also a side deal that goes along with this one. You can purchase a family pass for up to 4 people (babysitters, grandparents, aunts, uncle and more included) for $23.00. So your whole family can bowl together. There is only the normal charge for the shoe rental.

Regal Cinemas are offering free movies beginning at 10 AM on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s during the summer. Click the here to check their website. Watch for the select a state drop down menu in the center towards the bottom of the screen, to view which theaters in your state are offing free family film festivals. Not all cinemas are showing the same movies but some of the movies on the marque are Kit Kitridge American Girl, Charlotte’s Web, Curious George, and Horton Hears a Who, just to mane a few.

Scrapbooking or Computer Scrapbooking:

Keep track of all the fun stuff you do this summer and create a Memory Scrapbook. You can also make a Computer Scrapbook by taking pictures of items that you collected on a trip or adventure that won’t last forever. Then post them in your scrapbook.

Here are a link to free clip art for your scrapbook pages to help you along. And, at scrapbook bytes they offer free tutorials for how to digitize you layouts.

I like working with Avery Products when I am doing an Arts and Crafts project. I can trust their products to work. You can 20% Off Avery® Clear Scrapbook Sticker Paper which helps when your looking for deals.

When out in the sun you see all kinds of wonderful things like butterflies and bugs. This inspired me to let my daughter to make my own magnets and I my own inspirational messages on magnets. You can get 20% Off Avery® Magnet Sheetseveryday too. I have purchased other magnet sheets however, I have not had as much luck with using non-Avery magnets sheets. My printer just doesn’t work with any other magnet sheet.

Art Studio CD-ROM

You can also Save on kid’s craft supplies at www.CreateForLess.com.

While your at it be sure to check out Art Supplies at MisterArt.com you can save 75%.

All over the country parks and recreational areas will have a daily arts and crafts area for kids. Some are free and some are a nominal fee. Check with your local parks and rec dept. or head over to your local park some morning about 9:30 AM and see what’s going on.Childrens's Arts & Crafts

Gardening

This summer why not turn your back yards in to Master Gardens. Gardening for Beginners is a fun site to stop at. Choose from annuals and perennials, learn what they are. Plant a vegetable garden; learn how to make and use compost and a whole lot more. Besides language translations, you can enter your location for hardiness zones.

Learn about Dogs

Chances are if your in the 2nd or 3rd grade level and your haven’t got pet yet – here is a nice website for not only finding a pet but learning about different breeds of dogs. When your on the site just click view all and find many different breeds of dogs. Once you find one your interested in click on learn more and you can find out the characteristics of the breed; such as, are they energetic, do they need much exercise, are they hard to groom, and what type of temperament they have. The website is Petfinder.com and while I only mentioned dogs they cover a wide selection of animals.

20 Percent Off All Orders at StarbucksStore.com ~ This Week Only

Fabric.com Coupon Corner

…More coming

Get Half Price PHOTO COLLAGE MUGS in June. Use Coupon Code: JUNEMUGUK09. Ideal gifts for Father's Day.

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Museums, History, Art, free Days and Homeschool Days

Find a Museum Close to You

Many of museums offer “free days” or “homeschool days”

Go to museums in the USA All types of museums to choose from. Art Museums, Science Museums and many more.

Visiting and Learning about Ancient Egypt, Greece and Italy is no farther than a click away.

Atlanta, Georgia has Michael C. Carlos Museum said to be one of the best Ancient Egypt Museums in the US. Admission is $7 per person. See Mummies Egyptian time periods. Items from Greek, Roman and Ancient American time periods as well.

Totally Tut Pyramid Game $17.98

Exploring never got better than with the fascinating Michael Carlos online Ancient Greece Museum there is no explaining this one, it a fun way to read and learn all about Ancient times. Enter into a Flash multimedia presentation with lots of features and choices for teaching things such as architecture, living, geography, battles, God’s Goddess’, heroes, names, and Greek Democracy.

Art Institute of Chicago

View an entire multi-media guide to the Ancient World and choose from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Italy when visiting the the Art Institute of Chicago. Cick the stories button (link) if that option is available that goes along with the images. The story runs a quicktime movie that explains the history surrounding the image. For example, here is a video telling about the Ancient Boats used in the time of Cleopatra in Egypt. Explaining how the boats sailed up and down the Nile River. These would make great history lessons for younger grades as an introduction to Ancient History.

Lesson Plans for the Ancient Studies are also available at the Art Institute of Chicago for teaching Math, Fine Arts, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. These look like they would make great unit studies. Note: these lesson plans are main focus includes those in 4th and 5th grade.

Then go and learn about Ancient Egypt at the British Museum in the UK learn about hieroglyphics writings.

Vatican Online Museums

You don’t have to go any farther than the tip of your fingers to find loads of Ancient history. Here at the Vatican Online Museum you will find quality Christian history, art history and more.

St. Louis Art Museum

The St. Louis Art Museum is a spectacular Museum if you ever get the chance to go there. It’s free every day and on Friday’s their special exhibits are free too. They have beautiful Ancient Art and quite an extensive collection of religious and Chinese art. They also have educational programs some for free depending on the time and season.

Parthenon in the USA

One of the most awesome things I ever saw in the United States was a life size replica of the Greek PARTHENON – in NASHVILLE, TN!! It was unbelievable. I felt like I was in Greece. Inside there is a Colossal statue of Athena holding Nike It’s located in down town Nashville and at this time it cost $6.00 for adults and $3.50 for kids 4- 17, if your younger than that you get in free. they are open year round from about 9-4 except Sunday it’s 12:30 – 4:30. View the photo gallery

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Free Living History Books and Stories

The following Stories can be found on the Baldwin Project they come from a book called Heroes Every Child Should know. You can click the link to view the entire book online or you can choose one of the titles below and read only that story. Baldwin Project also offers this 379 page book for sale as a reprint. Perseus Hercules Daniel David St. George King Arthur Sir Galahad Siegfried Roland King Alfred The Cid Robin Hood Richard the Lion-Hearted Saint Louis William Tell Robert Bruce George Washington Robert E. Lee Abraham Lincoln Father Damien

Stories about Saints

Can be found in this book called In God’s Garden Once again you can view the entire book free online or just read about the individual Saints. One thing I notices about this online book – while the stories are easy to read their are not many pictures. A suggestion might be to print out the individual stories and make your own book with Saint pictures out of it. Or better yet make a lap book with it. Here are the Saints and their stories. (these stories are in the public domain.) Saint Ursula Saint Benedict Saint Christopher Saint Catherine of Siena Saint Augustine of Hippo Saint Augustine of Canterbury Saint Cecilia Saint Giles Saint Nicholas Saint Faith Saint Cosmo and Saint Damian Saint Martin Saint George Saint Francis of Assisi