Links and Articles
Have you come across an interesting article or a web site you think other homeschoolers might benefit from? Send it to us and we'll post it here!
“The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the face of Christ emerge and the voice of Christ be heard? For it is only when His face is seen and His voice heard that the world will know the glad tidings of our redemption. ...Therefore,... I dare to summon the whole Church bravely to cross this new threshold, to put out into the deep of the Net, so that now as in the past the great engagement of the Gospel and culture may show to the world ‘the glory of God on the face of Christ’.”
—Pope John Paul II
Web Links
March:
February:
- The Virtue Driven Life-Use Lent to build virtue!
- Pope Benedict XVI's message for Lent 2008
- If You Are Far from God, You Are Far From Yourself, Says the Pope
- The Ultimate Multiplication Tables Video Game
- Holy Heroes Audio CDs for Kids
December:
- Advent/Christmas Unit Study
- The Advent Workshop
- A Catholic Education for Every Catholic Kid
- History of the Advent Wreath
- Another History of the Advent Wreath
- The Immaculate Conception:
definition of the dogma
JPII on the definition
Catholic Encyclopedia Entry
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
- Don't forget to meditate on Saved by Hope, the new encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI, during Advent. It will make an excellent preparation for Christmas!
November:
- A nice reflection on the presentation of Mary
- Families as a Building Block of Vocations
- The Rosary: The Devil's Defeat
- How Much is That Neighborhood School Costing You?
- Ignatius Press has Faith and Life lesson plans, updated tests and quizzes available for free
- Resources on our Catholic faith and news around the world
- Make your own flashcards for free
- Time math facts drills
- Help children understand fractions by giving them visual aids
- Phonics helps. Download books for practice with your child’s phonics
- Periodic Table resources
- This is Macbeth Derham’s website. Here you will find information on Charlotte Mason and various other topics. Macbeth is a naturalist so you will definitely find wonderful ideas to share the study of nature with your children.
- This is a sweet website of free
coloring sheets of the saints. It was created by a highschool brother/
sister team and is so nicely done!
October:
- A cool dictionary site - Specialty dictionaries, translation dictionaries and lots of tidbits of interesting info. The section in fun and games called "when insults had class" is a hoot!
- A good article on the Mass and parenting.
September:
- Prayers, devotions, and activities for the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
- Prayers, devotions, and activities for the feast of the Archangels.
- A website for helping large families become organized.
- Until Sept. 13th, Office Max is offering free laminating on Thursdays
to teachers, including homeschoolers! Just bring proof of being a
homeschooler. Click here for the coupon!
- Leslie Hammack just finished a two week trial of Computer Time, a software program that monitors your child's or even your time on the computer. You can set time limits (daily, weekly or monthly) for every person who uses the computer. He or she just logs in and out when they get on the computer and Computer Time does the monitoring . Users can check how much time they have remaining and when they get down to 15 minutes a voice tells them how much time they have remaining. It reminds them at 5 minute intervals until their time is up. You can also create tokens which grant extra time on the computer. For the Hammacks it has eliminated bickering about how long someone has been on and freed time from constant monitoring of clocks and timers. Check it out at www.softwaretime.com. If you like the program it's a one time fee of $30 for one computer or $40 for all computers in your home.
August:
- A beautiful reflection on the Assumption for different stages of families... young, practiced, and experienced.
- A cool educational site with lots of fun drills and practices and games.
- This site shows how ancient Rome used to look around 552 A.D.
- Great art appreciation website as well as many other free educational resources. Very nice bible story section and more!
- A Flashcard program that can be customized to create any kind of flashcard necessary for study. It even has voice prompts and settings for printing or automatic review online. $29.95
- Blick Art Materials proudly announces its on-line partnership with Art Academy Live, providing a revolutionary concept in art instruction.
With the click of a mouse, you can watch a demonstration on your computer screen and even interact with prominent art instructors via your keyboard without leaving the comfort of your studio or home.
Art Academy Live allows an artist to attend a virtual workshop, watching a computer screen as an instructor explains how he or she progresses through a painting. A second, even more exciting component is that you have the opportunity to interact with the instructor by typing in questions or comments on your keyboard.
Those questions, flashed onto the instructor's screen, may prompt the instructor to elaborate on a process. The interactive component is what makes Art Academy Live distinct. In place of a DVD, which a student would watch passively, the art student gets an opportunity to influence the instructor's demonstration, by offering questions, by asking for clarification, or by making other comments.
An artist can visit the site, see what classes are taking place either that day or in the next few days, and sign up for a class. Each live broadcast will last about an hour and a half. The artist also can browse through the archives of recorded versions of past classes and download them.
If an artist just wants to try out the on-line concept, 10- or 15-minute "snippets" are available for viewing. All of the above activities are available at reasonable fees. Once a snippet is downloaded, you can play and replay it until you master the lesson.
Give Art Academy Live a try! It's a great way to learn from outstanding teachers.
Articles
We are starting a library of articles to assist and encourage you and your family on your homeschooling journey. If you know of any articles that would help in this endeavor, please send them to the editors. If it doesn't fit in the categories we've created, we'll create a new one for it!
Homeschooling
- General:
- TBD
- English / Reading:
- TBD
- Math:
- TBD
- Religion:
- Science:
Marriage and Family
- TBD
Spirituality