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dolorsofmary
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Posted: March 30 2011 at 9:28am \| IP Logged

someone from another forum suggested that I share this here as well. I am way way way into digital scrapbooking and I have found a way to use that and teach history and catechism to my son who is 5 and is not reading independently yet. I made a visual timeline with the help of my digital scrapbooks. Sorry I know this idea goes into crafts but also academics and early childhood. here is what I said in the post on early childhood. I just LOVE digital scrapbook. it costs $0.00 oh how I love $0.00.
In reference to prior replies on how to teach history to a child who can not read independently (because he is confused and asking questions)--->Its so wondeful!
I love the suggestions you all put here and they spurred me on to try something that fit our family. I have a broken ankle and in a boot until Holy Thursday and so steps are difficult for me and walking a lot is difficult for me. I LOVE the idea of walking back in time and giving a child the feel of how far back something occurred - wow! BUt of course in light of my injury I got some page protectors and printed out some montessori pictures of the world over and over again, each one representing 250 years but I am not sure if my 5 yo really understands that. I am way way way into digital scrapbooking and my dh gave me the great idea of just using pictures and scrapbook pages and have them in a completely visual timeline and i was able to put it together in like 1 hour and it packs a good punch per se. I love it! And my son understands better now and so I:) I was able for the most part just find pictures of the garden of Eden, Moses, Crucifixion, Abe Lincoln, George Washington, etc. etc and himself and Grandpop, and us, etc. etc. etc and just stick them in iphotos into what they call an album and iphotos will just page through it for you! I can add or delete whatever I want. I also have tons and tons of scrapbook digital pages and i even did some of my church on special holy days like the Triduum,etc. and so forth. Through the use of hte completely visual timeline my son said that he understood and then he asked me today where in church we 'do' the agony of the garden and well I have a scrapbook of our pastor 'doing' the Holy Thursday Mass, washing of the feet and processing and repositioning the Holy Eucharist (our pastor had hired a professional photographer and I had purchased the cd photographer produced)and so I stuck that in the timeline after the Leonardo's last supper (who we have also studied and is on our timeline) and the agony in the garden, etc. etc. I just love this. SOmeone stop me I don't think I can! I would send you a link but it would LONG and the scrapbook software (nova development art deluxe) is very very very exclusive about what I can and cannot do so therefore I cannot digitally share it with you unless I were to make a cd of it and mail to each of you, sorry!

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