Saint Ann's Angels: The Cuellars

Sep. 19, 2007

Halloween Decorating & Homeschooling!

The Pumpkin faces have dried rice glued to them to look like maggots!!!

Well, for the past 2 days we have been making a Halloween craft to hang up,or tape somewhere throughout the house. I figure that by the week of Halloween, our home will be goulishly pleasing.

I am so proud of my children! My five year old Lissa, is reading on a first grade level now,and my 9 year old Micah, is doing great at her times tables. They are booth doing their writting,and and other subjects very,very well too! I am soooo very proud. In our Catholic education lessons we are learning that you cannot live a full life,and be truely happy if you do not have a bond with God. Without God in our lives we would never have peace,and we would always be looking for something ,more.Thats why we should always tell people about God,and what he does and did for us. (pg 18 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church).

It really is amaizing how much I love homeschooling my children.I was scared,and worried at first but it was like I was guided by the Holy Spirit to keep on learning about it,talking to my husband about it,and praying about it. I knew that it was not about what I wanted,or about what was best for my "me time",but that its about what God wants.I know that oneday I am going to stand before God,and be accountable for how my children were raised,and for what I did and did not teach them. I don't want God to ask me"So, did you have enough ME TIME, did you get enough pedicures,and have enough afternoon coffee outings with your girlfriends?"I want God to say to me, "You did a good job my child,and I am proud of you" It is our job to teach our children how to honor,love,fear,admire,and trust in God.RE classes are not going to do it with their once a week lessons,them going to Mass once a week is great,but its not going to teach them EVERYTHING that they need to be taught by the parents. We should teach our children that prayer works,they should be praying with us everynight,they should be seeing and saying the Rosary everynight with mom and dad. Its one thing to go to Mass,and another thing to LIVE A CHRISTIAN LIFE. Theese things are taught,they take disipline,and willpower.I am by no means perfect, but I do want to at lest do all I can to live and to teach my children how to live a Christian life.I don't want them to grow up just playing the part, I want them to LIVE it.God is suppouse to be in our homes,and in our everyday lives as well. We are suppouse to do everything in offering of God.Everyday. I want my children to have a passion for God,for praying,for living a holy life.I want them to CRAVE it. Thats taught by the parents,thats taught at home.

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Sep. 19, 2007 - Absolutely Right ON!

Posted by mom45angels

Very good Mary! You've hit the nail on the head! I'm so proud that you've done it so early on in your children's lives....How I wish we had been so aware and determined when my 3 oldest were young!
But we're making a determined effort with the younger 2 and with the 15 year old while he's still young and at home.

Some resources I've found helpful in teaching and living faith at home are these:

*Catholic Mosaic.... www.hillsideeducation.com
This is a Catholic Liturgical year based literature program-AWESOME! If you don't have it-you'll want to get it!!! I promise!!!! Cay Gibson is wonderful!

*The Teacher Planner put out by Creative Communications for the Parish www.creativecommunications.com
This is also liturgically based-an UNBELIEVABLE resource for Catholic Homeschooling families! Inexpensive, too . This planner is based on the readings for the year. Every week has a Word of the Week based on the coming Sunday's readings-it then breaks the week down into activities based on the Sunday Gospel and the Word of the Week (like journalling about it, defining it, etc). Then it also has all the saints on their feast days and information abou them. Did I mention it is a planner? So of course there are places to put your lesson plans, too. There is so much more to this planner-you'll have to go online to check it out.

*100 Activities Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church-self explanitory.....100 reproducible activities based on the Catechism.....broken down into primary, intermediate and advanced levels-awesome book

*Celebrating the Gospels....This little Gem is also liturgically based and includes activities for all three liturgical cycles... also based on the Gospel reading for Sunday-includes the reading, a focus, a short meditation, discussion questions, activity and prayer....can't say enough about this one!

*CatholicMom.com......if you haven't been there ===GO....Quickly! too many resources to name.....

*www.catholicculture.org one of my favorite websites.....info on the saint of the day....including any recipes, prayers, activites that are appropriate. an awesome resource as well

Just look at all that great stuff!!!! With all this fun and informative stuff out there, how can "religion" be boring?!? No CCE class can "show" a child how to live their faith 24/7.....and public schools "won't"! Have fun-our FAITH is truly FULL!!!

You and your precious family are doing just great!!!

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We are a Roman Catholic family that has made the choice to homeschool our 2 daughters,and son.This is our first year homeschooling.We have 2 other boys (twins) that are in public school (they are seniors,and did not want to be homeschooled), They are great boys,and I wish that I could have homeschooled them as well. I wouldn't trade this for the world!