Schoolhouse Rocks Grammar

Learn Nouns through songs

These Grammar Rock songs from school house rocks are a great supplement to learning for the Catholic homeschooler. Kids love them so much they don’t consider it learning, to them its just another song to learn.

Grammar Rocks: Nouns

Grammar Rocks Schoolhouse Rocks:

Learning verb through music and songs:

Skip Count with Ease

Choose a number to begin your skip counting and choose increments your child needs to learn.. Here is a link to a website that is fun to “play skip counting” Your child may not realize they are learning!

The nice thing about this supersequencer is that you can adjust it to go slow, medium or fast. You can skip count what ever number you want skip count 2, skip count 3, skip count 4, skip count by hundreds, or tens. Have a race with it or play a game with it. Let your child see it and say it. Great for an homeschooling an only child who needs to practice math.

Go to link here Supersquencer

Free Math Worksheets

Here is a good resource for your 2nd grade homeschool or above.

When your child is struggling with one particular concept and you just need a different perceptive or additional practice to help learn the concept. The worksheets include basic addition and subtraction; advanced addition and subtraction, addend, multiplication and fractions.

It’s FREE Math worksheets from schoolhouse technology. These are no strings attached free worksheets for math; they also come with answer keys.

Schoolhouse technology also offers a number of products you can evaluate and buy a license to use. They have bingo games from just about every subjects.

No More Tears Spelling

Having trouble with spelling words?

Here is a website homeschool should never be without. Whether you have a spelling curriculum or just want your child to learn some words that they struggle with, I recommend using a free online program called Spelling City. It’s really free no catch and no trial offer.

Your children will learn their spelling words without realizing it. The site give you three options. Practice, Play games, Test. You add your own word list, and you add by groups of 5 words at a time. You can add all 20 (or more) spelling words at one time. I have a friend who adds five words per day the harder ones first. Her daughter can practice and play different games all week. She adds a few more words each day. Then on Friday she runs through the test. You can actually test sooner if your child feels comfortable with the new words. The best part is you use your own words and you decide how many and how long to practice before testing.

Great site, great fun, especially for those kids who struggle with spelling. Again the link is http://www.spellingcity.com

Latin, Greek, Root Words

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Trying to decide on a homeschool curriculum for learning Latin can be difficult. Maybe you just want your child to learn what the root words mean.

I have discovered English from the Roots Up It’s a very easy conscept for children to pick up. It’s set up by using a 3X5 card system. Red borders around the cards mean Latin based word, green borders around the card be Greek based word. On the back of the card you write words that are associated with your root word. It seems easy and fun for even the most finicky child.

Memorare website also offers free interactive educational flashcards and lists associated with English from the Roots Up.

English from the roots up interactive activities

Don’t give up looking for great deals; search for used books on catholic swap group too. I was able to find my book for $5.00.

Also try Sacred Heart books for English from the Roots up.

School House Rock 3′s and Zero still lots of Fun.

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

Music is such a fun way to learn math! Learn anything…

Did you know you can find old and newer school house rock videos on Youtube? It’s not the same as having your own collection but it sure makes you reminisce back to the days of singing these tunes. I am sure once you see some of these, like so many of us you will be hooked and want the whole collection. But if your strapped for fund at least you can be safe viewing these videos from this website.

I don’t recommend you sending your kids to youtube unattended by a parent. Parents should always search first and view first. That’s why I post good videos on my site. Don’t get me wrong, I love Youtube it’s got some awesome videos on it, anything you could possibly want. Yet therein lies the problem. You don’t have to worry about clicking the a video here and having it turn out to have inappropriate content.

School House Rock, Magic number 3:

Learn how to multiply and count by 3′s through songs.

This video is unofficially claimed as the first Schoolhouse rock video.

School house Rocks, My Hero Zero: Learn about multiplying by zero through music.

Find Catholic Curriculum with Free shipping

Looking at Catholic Curriculum for next year. I would like to recommend a company called Sacred Heart Books and Gifts.[singlepic id=17 w=320 h=240 mode=web20 float=right]

I found this company last year when I was looking for Saxon Math 2. I really like them, maybe it was because I have a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus that drew me to the Sacred Heart Books website or maybe it was where they are located, having come from the Midwest. I recently discovered that they are now carrying materials for Catholic Charlotte Mason users. They also have curriculum supplies available for Mother of Divine Grace and many others. There website is dedicated to families and especially one single income families; they keep their prices low! You can find discount prices on Catholic Curriculum from their website all year long. They offer FREE SHIPPING on orders over $25.00 and less than $5.00 on all orders under $25.00. That is a pretty awesome deal for those concerned with purchasing books yet still having funds enough to cover the sometime high cost of shipping.

Before going to Amazon to buy your books check Sacred Heart Books and Gifts out. Their prices are very reasonable. You know the books are new and the best part is FREE SHIPPING with orders over $25.00. You are also helping a fellow Catholic Servant who is to helping Catholic home schoolers.

St. Michael Campaign to Convert Abortionist

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Human Life international has launched a campaign to pray the St. Michaels Prayer to convert abortionist

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Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel for the

Conversion of Abortionists

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the

wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and

do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan

and all evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.

For updates to this prayer campaign, please visit: www.hli.org/st_michael_prayer.html

Human Life International , 4 Family Life Lane , Front Royal, VA 22630

800-549-5433 • www.hli.org

Educational Fun

Fun Interactive Games and Activities for Catholic Kids.

Lots more coming so check back often.

St. Nicholas Catholic Games about St. Nicholas from St. Nicholas Center.

Ewtn Kids Club Associated with EWTN Catholic Network website. It’s is one of the best webistes for Catholic Kids. It’s free to join. You enter an email address so they send an email to parents who then have to grant permission to join. Don’t worry about entering your email address, they don’t spam you emails.

MyFriends fun and games A website put out by the daughters of St. Paul, Pauline Press website. Your kids will love the Crowning Mary game. It offers some of the beautiful quality Catholic children’s music on the web.

Disciple Now has an online community for older kids and teens.

Here are two totally free e-greeting card websites. I love St. Anthony’s Free Catholic Greeting Cards. But I have recently found another very nice Catholic based e-card greetings site from Pauline Press called Pauline’s Cards.com. So send those free ecards to all of your friends and family.

Need a free sound effect for a story you want to create? check out Applesauce Kids website. They have a large section of other freebies.

Little Flowers Girl Club Begin your own home school or church school, girls club. It functions similar to that of girl scouts. The big picture with this club are becoming virtuous.
Blue Knights Boys Club. Yes, there’s a boys club too. The parent website for these two clubs is ECCE Homo Press they have other programs to offer too.

Scope and Sequence for 2nd Grade

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(Scope and sequence information was gathered from World Book Encyclopedia . It provides information for grades k-12 . This information and more can be located at http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Home on the bottom right side of the website)

2nd grade Scope and Sequence

what every 2nd grader should know before entering 3rd grade.

Social Studies

* Holidays and festivals
* Patriotic celebrations
* Communities in other lands: past and present
* Family and family history
* Families around the world
* Neighborhoods
* Community services and helpers
* Shelters, stores, and food
* Citizenship and social responsibility
* Interdependence of people
* Basic geography: oceans, continents
* Map skills

Science

* Useful and harmful animals
* Life cycle
* Birds and insects in winter
* Animal babies
* Animal defense of themselves and their young
* Plant and animal food
* Dinosaurs and other extinct animals
* Food chain
* Plant reproduction and growth
* Habitats and homes
* Weather and its effects on earth
* Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants
* Climate
* Water cycle
* Air and atmosphere
* Magnets and forces
* Gravity
* Earth and sky
* Sun, moon, planets
* Simple constellations
* Exploring space
* Scientific method and scientific inquiry

Language Arts

* Reading silently for purpose
* Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading
* Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading
* Story development: beginning, middle, end
* Simple book reviews
* Listening skills
* Organizing ideas and impressions
* Alphabetizing through second letter of a word
* Using dictionary guide words
* Vocabulary development
* Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
* Methods of word attack
* Ways to study spelling
* Simple punctuation and capitalization
* Refining manuscript handwriting
* Writing independently in manuscript form
* Brief and simple letters and journals
* Narration, description, letters, poetry
* Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index

Health and Safety

* Personal cleanliness
* Dental hygiene
* Basic food groups
* Communicable diseases
* Preventive measures against disease
* Neighborhood safety

Mathematics

* Counting, reading, writing to 1,000
* Counting by 2′s, 3′s, 4′s, 5′s, and 10′s
* Ordinal numbers to 10
* Zero as a place holder
* Using sets and number facts
* Addition and subtraction facts to 20
* Basic multiplication and division facts
* Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations
* Multiplication properties of 0 and 1
* Place value through 100′s
* Fractions in daily life
* Decimal numeration system
* Basic concept of ratio
* Geometry puzzles and activities
* Estimation
* Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length, volume, shape, temperature
* Telling time and using the calendar
* Handling money (coins)
* Problem solving
* Charts and graphs