When the kids were little, I was much more on top of the liturgical colors and the upcoming liturgical seasons. Why? Well, because I made it part of my curriculum. Just like we teach our children the seasons of the year, as a Catholic mom, I taught the Liturgical seasons. These seasons guided the rhythm…
Category: Lapbook Ideas & How-to’s
Catholic kids and the REAL St. Valentine
Necessity is truly the mother of invention! Here is my story! In an attempt to spice things up a bit in our family homeschooling I was planning on doing all things St. Valentine! So off to the library I went. Only to find that practically EVERYTHING I found was about the cute (sometimes creepy looking)…
Cor Unum! One Heart & The Sacred Heart
The von Trapp family, of the Sound of Music fame, called their home in Vermont “Cor Unum” – Latin for: One Heart. They dedicated it to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and in so doing, called their family to be of one heart for our Lord. Theirs was a touching and beautiful gesture that we repeated when we purchased…
History Portfolios
By Barbara Shurkin Each Homeschool Journey History Portfolio encourages study and plenty of creativity while providing a compact way of organizing and showcasing a student’s own written research projects and reports, colorful drawings, photographs, clippings, downloaded images… anything that can fit between the pages! Use it as a stand alone curriculum using living books, or…
What exactly is a Lapbook, and how does it encourage REAL learning?
Before we begin discussing what lap books are, we need to begin by explaining what foldables are. In the early 1980s, Dinah Zike came out with a book called Big Book of Books. This wonderful classic, which is still in print and selling for about the same price it did 20 years ago, describes in clear…