St. Monica narration Wednesday, Aug 27 2008

 

By Joseph- age 10

St. Monica was born in Northern Africa. She married a pagan. He made her suffer because of his bad temper. Still, Monica never talked back to him, but spoke good of him. He died in the year 372. He was baptized on his death bed.

Monica had a son whose name was Augustine. He lived a sinful life. He went to Rome without Monica. St Monica followed him there. Later on he converted and he became a teacher. He also became a priest and a a bishop. St. Monica died in the year 387.

Novena to St. Monica

Dear St Monica, troubled wife and mother,
Many sorrows pierced your heart
During your lifetime.
Yet you never despaired or lost faith.
With confidence, persistence and profound faith,
You prayed daily for the conversion
Of your beloved husband, Patricius
And your beloved son, Augustine.

Grant me that same fortitude,
Patience and trust in the Lord.
Intercede for me, dear St. Monica,
That God may favorably hear my plea
For

(mention your petition here)

And grant me the grace
To accept his will in all things,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
In the unity of the Holy Spirit,
One God forever and ever. Amen.

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“Ocean Deep” inspired drawing Thursday, Mar 13 2008

Last week while I was at Costco, I saw the Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series DVD’s on sale and I just couldn’t resist buying them. We first saw these on t.v. last year when we had cable for a few months. It became one of our favorite weekly rituals with the kids. They really loved this show and learned a lot from them. So when I came across them, I knew I had to get them. I was a little hesitant about the cost, but I considered this part of our "educational budget."

Every Friday and Saturday night after prayers, we have a family movie night in our bedroom. Now that we have these DVD’s, we’ll be watching them instead of movies. The kids camp out in our room and we watch a full episode, usually about an hour long. So far, their favorite has been the "Caves" episode. Here is a review of this episode:

"Into the Abyss" showing the rigors of filming the planet’s most spectacular caves, including the last filming ever officially permitted in the "Chandelier Ballroom," a crystal-encrusted cavern found over a mile deep in New Mexico’s treacherous Lechuguilla, the deepest cave in the continental United States."

This weekend we watched the "Ocean Deep" episode. I like this one a lot better than the "caves" because it’s not as gross. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know what I mean ; ) Angela seems to have liked this one as well. Today, while on our way to a friend’s house for brunch, she drew a picture of a Great White Shark and some sea creatures around it. Our kids usually take some paper and art supplies with them whenever we go out. It makes for a cluttered van, but I’m so glad Angela did. I was so impressed with the detail, especially since she’s only 5 years old. That shark looks pretty angry. Here is her "Ocean Deep" drawing:

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“Ocean Deep” inspired drawing Thursday, Mar 13 2008

Last week while I was at Costco, I saw the Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series DVD’s on sale and I just couldn’t resist buying them. We first saw these on t.v. last year when we had cable for a few months. It became one of our favorite weekly rituals with the kids. They really loved this show and learned a lot from them. So when I came across them, I knew I had to get them. I was a little hesitant about the cost, but I considered this part of our "educational budget."

Every Friday and Saturday night after prayers, we have a family movie night in our bedroom. Now that we have these DVD’s, we’ll be watching them instead of movies. The kids camp out in our room and we watch a full episode, usually about an hour long. So far, their favorite has been the "Caves" episode. Here is a review of this episode:

"Into the Abyss" showing the rigors of filming the planet’s most spectacular caves, including the last filming ever officially permitted in the "Chandelier Ballroom," a crystal-encrusted cavern found over a mile deep in New Mexico’s treacherous Lechuguilla, the deepest cave in the continental United States."

This weekend we watched the "Ocean Deep" episode. I like this one a lot better than the "caves" because it’s not as gross. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know what I mean ; ) Angela seems to have liked this one as well. Today, while on our way to a friend’s house for brunch, she drew a picture of a Great White Shark and some sea creatures around it. Our kids usually take some paper and art supplies with them whenever we go out. It makes for a cluttered van, but I’m so glad Angela did. I was so impressed with the detail, especially since she’s only 5 years old. That shark looks pretty angry. Here is her "Ocean Deep" drawing:

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“Ocean Deep” inspired drawing Thursday, Mar 13 2008

Last week while I was at Costco, I saw the Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series DVD’s on sale and I just couldn’t resist buying them. We first saw these on t.v. last year when we had cable for a few months. It became one of our favorite weekly rituals with the kids. They really loved this show and learned a lot from them. So when I came across them, I knew I had to get them. I was a little hesitant about the cost, but I considered this part of our "educational budget."

Every Friday and Saturday night after prayers, we have a family movie night in our bedroom. Now that we have these DVD’s, we’ll be watching them instead of movies. The kids camp out in our room and we watch a full episode, usually about an hour long. So far, their favorite has been the "Caves" episode. Here is a review of this episode:

"Into the Abyss" showing the rigors of filming the planet’s most spectacular caves, including the last filming ever officially permitted in the "Chandelier Ballroom," a crystal-encrusted cavern found over a mile deep in New Mexico’s treacherous Lechuguilla, the deepest cave in the continental United States."

This weekend we watched the "Ocean Deep" episode. I like this one a lot better than the "caves" because it’s not as gross. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know what I mean ; ) Angela seems to have liked this one as well. Today, while on our way to a friend’s house for brunch, she drew a picture of a Great White Shark and some sea creatures around it. Our kids usually take some paper and art supplies with them whenever we go out. It makes for a cluttered van, but I’m so glad Angela did. I was so impressed with the detail, especially since she’s only 5 years old. That shark looks pretty angry. Here is her "Ocean Deep" drawing:

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“Ocean Deep” inspired drawing Thursday, Mar 13 2008

Last week while I was at Costco, I saw the Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series DVD’s on sale and I just couldn’t resist buying them. We first saw these on t.v. last year when we had cable for a few months. It became one of our favorite weekly rituals with the kids. They really loved this show and learned a lot from them. So when I came across them, I knew I had to get them. I was a little hesitant about the cost, but I considered this part of our "educational budget."

Every Friday and Saturday night after prayers, we have a family movie night in our bedroom. Now that we have these DVD’s, we’ll be watching them instead of movies. The kids camp out in our room and we watch a full episode, usually about an hour long. So far, their favorite has been the "Caves" episode. Here is a review of this episode:

"Into the Abyss" showing the rigors of filming the planet’s most spectacular caves, including the last filming ever officially permitted in the "Chandelier Ballroom," a crystal-encrusted cavern found over a mile deep in New Mexico’s treacherous Lechuguilla, the deepest cave in the continental United States."

This weekend we watched the "Ocean Deep" episode. I like this one a lot better than the "caves" because it’s not as gross. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know what I mean ; ) Angela seems to have liked this one as well. Today, while on our way to a friend’s house for brunch, she drew a picture of a Great White Shark and some sea creatures around it. Our kids usually take some paper and art supplies with them whenever we go out. It makes for a cluttered van, but I’m so glad Angela did. I was so impressed with the detail, especially since she’s only 5 years old. That shark looks pretty angry. Here is her "Ocean Deep" drawing:

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“Ocean Deep” inspired drawing Thursday, Mar 13 2008

Last week while I was at Costco, I saw the Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series DVD’s on sale and I just couldn’t resist buying them. We first saw these on t.v. last year when we had cable for a few months. It became one of our favorite weekly rituals with the kids. They really loved this show and learned a lot from them. So when I came across them, I knew I had to get them. I was a little hesitant about the cost, but I considered this part of our "educational budget."

Every Friday and Saturday night after prayers, we have a family movie night in our bedroom. Now that we have these DVD’s, we’ll be watching them instead of movies. The kids camp out in our room and we watch a full episode, usually about an hour long. So far, their favorite has been the "Caves" episode. Here is a review of this episode:

"Into the Abyss" showing the rigors of filming the planet’s most spectacular caves, including the last filming ever officially permitted in the "Chandelier Ballroom," a crystal-encrusted cavern found over a mile deep in New Mexico’s treacherous Lechuguilla, the deepest cave in the continental United States."

This weekend we watched the "Ocean Deep" episode. I like this one a lot better than the "caves" because it’s not as gross. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know what I mean ; ) Angela seems to have liked this one as well. Today, while on our way to a friend’s house for brunch, she drew a picture of a Great White Shark and some sea creatures around it. Our kids usually take some paper and art supplies with them whenever we go out. It makes for a cluttered van, but I’m so glad Angela did. I was so impressed with the detail, especially since she’s only 5 years old. That shark looks pretty angry. Here is her "Ocean Deep" drawing:

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Another good reason to homeschool… Thursday, Feb 21 2008

Lively discussions! Every morning after prayers I read a paragraph of Charity for the Suffering Souls to the kids and discuss it with them afterwards. Today we read about the "souls who continued all through life in his wickedness, returns to God on his death-bed… and feels happy at the thought that the burden of guilt is lifted from his soul." We started talking about those who die in the state of mortal sin and the importance of being Baptized as soon as possible and not waiting until later in life since we don’t know when we are going to die. We also talked about making sure that we are always in the state of grace and receive the Sacrament of penance.

This led to a discussion of the aparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in which she showed the children a vision of hell, and where hell might be located. Somehow we started talking about the earth and creation, and since Marygrace is reading about the great flood and fossils from Exploring Creation With General Science she told us all about the "Uniformitariunism view of the process of evolving and how it takes millions of years to form most of the fossils we see today, or there is the Catastrophism view of how God created every creature individually and how the great flood made most of the fossils we see today."

Then the boys started to narrate from the books I ordered last week, which arrived yesterday. Kolbe is reading Albert Einstein: Young Thinker and Joseph is reading Benjamin Franklin: Young Printer. They are already half way done with the books. Kolbe was telling me about a stork that Albert Einstein found, and also about the tea and coffee cake he would have after he got home. We decided that we’re going to make coffee cake for tea time this afternoon. Joseph told us about how people weren’t allowed to talk about food during mealtimes and how Benjamin Franklin got in trouble and was sent to bed for asking, "Mom, don’t you think the mush is a little too thin?" The boys are fascinated with the "Childhood of Famous American" series. They went to bed with their new books and got up at 6:45 to continue to read them.

Believe it or not, this all happened before 8 o’clock this morning. Our discussions is one of the reasons I am so thankful to be homeschooling. I thank God and my husband for providing for our family so I can stay home and educate our children.

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The Golden Goblet narration Thursday, Sep 27 2007

This is Kolbe’s narration of the first 6 pages of "The Golden Goblet."

The book is about a boy named Ranofer. There is a goldsmith named Zau, and a stone cutter named Gebu. Ranofer found a gold cup decorated with diamonds around the handle. Zau can make cups, bowls, boxes, and other things. Zau is part of Ranofer’s life and Gebu is not. Ranofer ignores Gebu.

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Abe Lincoln narration Wednesday, Feb 14 2007

One of my dear children was narrating back to me about Abe Lincoln. Everything was pretty accurate, until I asked about the Emancipation Proclamation. I asked my dear child what Abe Lincoln wrote about slavery, and the answer was, "The Emancipation Constipation."

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Pocahantas narration-Part 1 Tuesday, Jan 9 2007

Here is our 8 year old’s narration of the first 6 pages of D’aulaire’s Pocahontas. This is his first written narration. He would much rather do picture narrations than written, but I think he did very well for his first one. He really loves to draw and is very talented. He definately gets it from his daddy. He plans on coloring it sometime soon.

Pawhatan was ugly and mean. He was the Indian Chief. He gave his daughter, Pocahontas, the nicest feathers and jewels. He loved her very much.

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