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homewith3
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Posted: April 17 2007 at 9:26am \| IP Logged

Hi ladies...I am new here but had already done a brief intro a couple weeks ago. I sure hope to learn LOTS from you here. My DH is Catholic, I am not but we are raising our children in the Catholic faith. We have 3 children ages 8,5 and 3. Right now I am homeschooling our 8yo and will be adding in our 5yo come this fall. We are not using a "catholic" curriculum because I feel I would just be overwhelmed by not being catholic myself. I do know some about the Catholic faith but it's been a slow process...hopefully I can begin to devote more time to this. I really want to begin to incorporate more readings and such into our homeschool but don't know where to begin. I have looked briefly at CHC but don't really want to get in over my head. I would love to hear any advice/suggestions that you ladies might have in order for me to begin giving my children more of a Catholic education.

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Posted: April 17 2007 at 9:39am \| IP Logged

I think this forum is the perfect place to start!

Here are some little things I would do:
1. Begin reading Bible stories at breakfast time or bedtime
2. Memorize the Our Father. My kids learned it when they were 2, so all your children can participate in this. Make it fun!
3. Buy a copy of the catechism. Instead of reading it all the way through right now, use it as a reference when studying your children's CCD materials. Read a little bit ahead of them in their workbooks and if there is something you don't understand, come here and ask and our trusty crew (headed by MicheleQ and JennGM) will surely point you to the right place in the catechism and be open to discussion.

Welcome!!

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homewith3
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Posted: April 17 2007 at 9:46am \| IP Logged

We do read bible, they know the Our Father. I will be getting a copy of the Catechism but don't really have any "catholic" stuff...KWIM? Most of the "catholic" education they have been receiving has been at church. My oldest is going to be receiving his 1st Holy Communion this month so I obviously want to give him a deeper knowledge of his faith.

I just don't know where to begin...this website is great but a bit overwhelming for me still.

Debbie

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Posted: April 17 2007 at 10:04am \| IP Logged

Hi, Debbie,
I am running out the door but wanted to add that my kids (ds5 and ds2) LOVE the books from Cay Gibson's Catholic Mosaic. Many of the books you may be able to find at your public library.

The Catholic Mosaic suggests a book or two for each month based on the liturgical year and feasts. There are activites and vocabulary that our suggested. I also like that it is teaching them thing about the faith without feeling overly "church-y".

If you do a search on this forum you will find lots of dicussion about Catholic Mosaic... the booklist and a sample study guide are also on the webite I linked to above...

As for the forum being "overwhelming" - I finally just decided that I cannot possibly keep up with all of these amazing ladies - I just glean what I can and share when I can.. thank you 4Real ladies!

ok, running out the door....

Erica

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Posted: April 17 2007 at 5:01pm \| IP Logged

I became Catholic when my oldest son was 14, youngest son at that time was number 6. We had been homeschooling along and i credit homeschooling with helpin me learn about the Catholic Faith 9 my dh was catholic). When the kids were small, I started with Saints stories - we used Fr Lovasik's Picture Book of Saints and every day we read the story of the Saint for that day, maybe looking at a map , maybe doing a narration or drawing.

This started us on Catholic studies.

The next thing I did was read one of those small Fr Lovasik picture books each week with the children - they learned about their Faith and so did I! These were good for copywork, too.

It all seemd like a simple way for a non Catholic to make sure there as a Catholic element in our homeschool.

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Posted: April 17 2007 at 6:32pm \| IP Logged

My goddaughter is being raised by her Mother who was very puzzled and confused about raising a catholic child on her own.

She choose to use some chc materials in order to have the explainations of the faith laid out for her.

She was very pleased with the "gentle nature" of chc's materials. They are orthodox but not as "hit you over the head" as some materials are in her words.

She did however become Catholic 2 years ago at Easter after using chc for 2 yrs

I agree with all the other posts but would add that
Moiras albums have a lot of great material- basic to follow but with deep meaning and would be good hands on for you and the dc.

Good luck and God Bless you for this great effort!

What a support you are to your children and your Dh.

Maggie

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