Recommended Resources | Catholic Homeschooling - Part 2

Telling Time

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Ambleweb has got lots of wonderful teaching aids. The link to their site is found on amblesideprimary.com

A teaching tool I like to use is their analog clock. It tells time from 5 minutes, 15 minutes and hour increments. It’s a fun way to explain time and for your child to learn with or without your assistance.

Showing kids Science

Even if you don’t live near a science museum you can still show your kids the wonders of life.

Video from the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois. Chick hatchery, see baby baby chicks being hatched from their eggs.


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More from the Museum of Science and Industry:

Click here to learn how to construct a worm farm

2009 Free Day Schedule for

Museum of Science and Industry

General admission is free on the following dates*:
June 1 2 3 4 5 19
October 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30
November 11

* there is still a charge for parking and omnimax on Free days check the Museum of Science and Industry Website for full details.

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.

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.

Wholesome Girls websites

With so many websites trying to grab our children’s attention and influence their attitudes about life, style, and so much more…

Here is a list of some wholesome decsent girl websites I found for girls who are beyond PreK stuff but not ready for the teen world.

Philomena Girl – St. Philomena or Filomena as they say in Italian, was the little Saint behind this wonderful website. A place to be a girl and be with God.  It’s a very wholesome Catholic girl website. They talk and show how to dress modestly, you will find a music section with a guide that help you choose music groups that suit your style. Their is a litany of prayer section and more. I think you will really like this site if you have a daughter between the ages of 6 – 16.

EWTN Kids Club – A Catholic website for kids.  You do have to have This virtual neighborhood has a church, nun that sing, a school, families and their homes you can visit. Dress the little baby and a bunch more. It’s really a an entertaining website for your children and one you won’t have to worry about them being on.  They even have TV shows for kids.  You can go on to this site with or without joining the club. It’s free to join and they don’t try to sell you anything or bombard you with emails. They will however send parents an email stating that you child wants to join and you must grant the request in order for them to join. This site is great for children ages 4-12 easily.

Little Flower Girls Club – Here is a link to a popular Catholic girls club. You can find craft and activity books, supplies, leaders guides, flyers, badges, and everything you need to start a virtueous girls group.

Precious Girls Club – Free to join it a wholesome girls virtual community. There are different levels of membership you will pay for a premium membership. But the free one is just as much fun.

MyFriend – The official Catholic Magazine for kids. I don’t know why they call it a magazine because it’s a really fun website for Catholic children. The daughters of St. Paul put out this Pauline kids website that includes games, jokes, puzzles, stories, music and even movie reviews.

Secret Keepers Girl SKG Cute Christian based website. A few entertaining games, they discuss dressing modestly with the body squad, God plan for you.

True Girl online is no really a workable website. They sell a magazine subscription through this site. It’s more for the 12 – 18 year old crowd. They also cover dressing modestly. They got some great links within their site.

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Rent a Catholic Movie! – Lent Challenge

This lent why not try something a little different, like giving up main stream television.  What I mean by that is unplug the cable line to your TV set yet, still watch DVD’s, Videos and more. Go online, find whatever you want to watch, news shows, movies, whatever. The point behind this is forcing yourself to deliberately search for what you want to actually see without carelessly running the TV just to have background noise or watch whatever happens to be on because your bored.  By making a deliberate search for what your want to find online it avoids vegging out in front of the TV.  You’ll probably notice you will watch more of what you really want to view without being bombarded with commercials.

The goal is trying to accomplish changing the way you view programming.  After Lent is over and when you begin watching main stream television again, notice how sensative you become to trashy commercials and commercials that tell how to think, what’s wrong with your, etc.. Note how bias media is and the stories of death, murder, kill, depress, the news stations inundate you with.  It’s amazing, you will never watch television in the same light again. You will see just how much time the TV actually robs and controls your life.

So where can you go to watch things online like free movies if you don’t have Netflixs, Blockbuster or something like that? You can try Hulu.com or do your own search. Graboid.com offers a free trial that should be  just long enough to last through lent.  The news stations like CNN, FOX, or ABC news all have streaming features; watch newclips that you want to watch instead of what they throw at you. EWTN even offers streaming to their TV station.  There is also a online catholic movie rental website called piusmedia.com that is worth checking out.

So challenge yourself during this time of lent even if you don’t feel like you can go all the way with cutting yourself off from television attempt to make deliberate decisions about what you will watch.


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.
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