The Ten Commandments Matching game

Nativity play 2012

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

May God Bless You,

Mark, Lori, Zach, Eli, Ava, and Sienna

 

 

 

How we teach reading

 

This is how I taught two of my kids to read! First we start with a good Sight word Book. (Dick and Jane type) We like the 1st grade Faith and Freedom readers from Seton home study.  They are wonderful and helped our children gain confidence that they can read! At the same time our children would use a good phonics workbook, I liked the one from MCP. Also Alphabet flashcard to learn letter sounds.  Then our kids would learn word families with Little stories for Little Folks, catholic phonics readers from CHC.  With each new book I would have them make a word family craft to go with the story.  I used this program with two of my kids and they are great readers, and they enjoy reading!

Solemnity of The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Eli's

I love "quiet" days at home!  It is never really quiet here! lol  We made our craft for the feast day, which reminded Sienna that she loves doing school work!  I am looking forward to getting back to our routine of doing school work with the kids. We prayed a decade of the rosary (of course we meditate on the fourth glorious mystery) and no one gave me any trouble because I promise to let them make a desert in honor of Mary's assumption into heaven.  We had angel food cake because Mary went to heaven where Angels are....  Whipped cream for the clouds and topped with blueberries for Mary's color of Blue!  And of course our day will end with Holy Mass at 6pm at St Mary Queen of the Angels.  Might do a picnic with take out food over at Elm park before mass, really don't feel like cooking tonight!
                                                                 St Mary, Pray for us!

Ava's

Sienna's

Don't put me on Facebook!  Yes, Zach celebrated with us too. Oh that reminds me I have a Scott Hahn youtube video for him to watch on the Assumption. (Thanks Urgino's) link

Tour of Brazil

We finally finish Brazil!! The cooking part always slow us down from finishing a tour of a country and it is always me that is the hold up!!! lol  Eli does a geat job researching the country and filling in his brochure.  And Zach and Eli love making his passport photo with his green screen!! That is my favorite part... well I like the table setting too!   Eli Skydiving picture makes me laugh, I love it!   We made miniature meat pies, Black beans and rice.  (I have never cooked dry beans before!)  And we didn't get to the Brazil nut cookies yet! Here is Brazil:

The Miraculous Medal

Today we had our miraculous medals blessed by Fr Nate.  Ava and I have been reading a story about the miraculous medal and we have been enjoying this story so much.  I started reading it at bedtime because she has been having a hard time at night with asthma or anxiety.  So it has become a special time for us. I just love the Mary Fabyan Windeatt saint stories, they are so kid friendly and I really enjoy reading them too! Ava was so excited to dress the same and both wear our Miraculous Medals to Church today.  Ava wanted me to get my medal blessed also since I didn't know whether it was blessed or not.  I got mine from my Mom's jewelry box after she passed. (I had been wearing it for quite some time and just assumed my mom had it blessed.)

               O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee!