Philothea
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I use the 60's version of VIE and I really love the book, my kids love the books too and are learning grammar well. However, I am wondering if I need a separate writing program for fourth grade next year? If I keep VIE, I am wondering which writing program might be a good fit with it, I'm probably looking at something that can be done 2-3 times per week. I don't like WWE or Writing Strands, so at least I already know that.
Advice appreciated, thanks!
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We do activities, but mainly I try to keep Advent in Advent. While we decorate, we do so with a spirit of preparation and anticipation, not allowing ourselves to celebrate Christmas before Christmas actually happens.
This Advent, we'll have a birthday, a baptismal day, a name day, a birth, a baptism, 3 sets of house guests, in addition to the usual St. Nicholas Day, St. Lucy Day, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and of course the usual Advent stuff, whew!
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I haven't been to a Vatican 2 church in over 10 years, so it is interesting to see all of the comments about things I am already used to doing.
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We're almost to 30% don't forget to order if you were thinking about it!
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We use the Divine Office, the pre-Vatican II one. It's one volume, easily hand-held.
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We usually make a big November altar for the Month of the Holy Souls, but the other areas which we gather for prayer are really small (as far as number of items). Each of us has our own little space in our rooms. I might make different ones for various times of the year, a Nativity for Christmas, or St. Joseph in March etc.
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I think Our Lady of the Rosary is very good, my friends use it and their children are doing very well. I think they take less of a workbook approach than Seton, at least for the younger years. They use very Catholic and the textbooks have excellent content, I use or own more than a few of the same texts in my own self-designed program. Our friends have been very happy with OLR.
JMJ!
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Use as a topping on your favorite homemade macaroni and cheese (my current fave is bacon and fire-roasted jalapeno).
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I believe the decision is in God's hands. Whether we stay at three or have three more, I am satisfied with His blessings.
We're Catholic, and we trust in God and follow the teachings of the Church, which means not using the Rhythm Method as "Catholic Birth Control."
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We're now on the MA/NH border about 1/2 hour from the coast.
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Welcome to a wonderful journey! I wish you the best success!
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Next school year, for second grade, we will be using:
Saxon 3
Catholic National Reader books 2,3 (finishing up book 2)
McGuffey's books 2,3 (again, finishing up book 2)
Seton Handwriting for Young Catholics 3
AAS 2/3
Copywork from read-alouds, readers or memory work
Prima Latina
Voyages in English (Catholic edition)
Our Holy Faith books 2 and 3
Science topic is Chemistry, and History topic will be Renaissance and beyond.
Child-size masterpieces
Maps, Charts and Graphs, C
State Capitals
Countries of S. America
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Has anyone used this or have a review of it?
It looks really interesting.
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I think TAN sold a planner too, but I haven't bought anything from them in years.
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Why is it that the people who live the most contradictory, messed-up lives always seem to have it all figured out for everyone else?
Is it just me? When person has their own affairs out order it tends to dicredit everything they say. Why is it these people always have the most to say on every matter and they just won't stop?
Is there even a polite way to tell them no one wants to hear it? I'm sure there is no nice way to say "get your house in order before you tell me what needs to happen in mine." But if there is...:bigear:
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I'm not of this line of thinking, but a friend is.
What materials would you use for each subject for the usual lower elementary subjects if they all have to be from a Catholic company and all of the books must be Catholic in nature?
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Because it allows evil unprecendented public license to corrupt as it pleases.
It changes the meaning of a word that is the building block of decent society against the will of most people. If two people want of the same sex are "married", then I am not married by the same defintion.
These same acts try to force me, my children and society into accepting something that, in better times, was an unspeakable perversion. Now that is being changed, and rewarded, not to mention--rewarded with my tax dollars.
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How many of are there here? Just curious.
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I find that the lasped Catholics usually live in opposition to Natural Law as well as the laws of the Church. Whenever one choses mortal sin or justifies it for another, many ignorant and rebellious statements are soon to follow.
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I hate seeing the ignorance, but it doesn't suprise me. I don't know how many times I've explained whom the Immaculate Conception refers to, or the difference between latria and dulia.
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The Catholic Church has never been anti-semitic in any regard. Period.
I'm offended and disgusted by even the suggestion of it.
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I do mine as Souvlaki and make tzatziki sauce, served with pita and slices of onions and tomatos.
Also, I like to marinade it Asian-style or whatever else suits my fancy and grill it.
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I'm 3/3 and it looks like I'll be having them from here on out.
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My kids art teacher wanted them to draw monsters and read them a story about monsters in the closet and being afraid of the dark...
I don't know where it is going to lead, but the kids never thought of the dark as anything scary before. They were both upset and wanted to throw their projects away when they came home. DS drew his monster inside of a sock, so it couldn't get out.
I worry about my kids annoying the teacher too, but I sit outside the room for the lessons. So if they are annoying, I can pretend not to know about it. And if they ask me, I will tell them, "sorry this is how my kids are, I'm paying you to teach them, if you don't like it, refund my money."
yet another history question...
in Catholic Homeschoolers
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I have a lot of Catholic history books, so if we cover something in STOW, we also look it up in the Catholic books. I also do a lot of editing of STOW as I read, adding in my own knowledge of Church history and our Catholic worldview.