Handout from the Denver conference
/Pioneer Stories
Little
House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Cherry
Jones audio version is great!)
My First
Little House picture books
The
Little House prequels by Melissa Wiley
My Great
Aunt Arizona (Houston)
Pioneer
Life from A to Z (Kalman)
Nature Study
Read Alouds for everybody:
Upper Level Study
(middle and high school)_
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Elementary
The Herriott Treasury for
Children
Picture book
biographies to share:
Bug Watching with Charles
Henry Turner
Bird Watching with Margaret
Morse Nice
Flower Watching with Alice
Eastwood
Fish Watching with Eugenie
Clark
Exploring the Earth with John
Wesley Powell
Wildlife Watching with Charles
Eastman
Picture Books (but I
really
think
everyone should share them):
Louisa May and Mr. Thoreau's
Flute
Joanne
Ryder
Eric
Carle:
Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do
You See?
Cynthia
Rylant
More
good stuff:
America the Beautiful (W.
Minor illustrator)
Salamander Rain: A Lake
and Pond Journal
Crinkleroot's guide to Knowing
the birds
Crinkleroot's Guide to Animal
Habitats
Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing
the Trees
Resources
and books for Mom and/or high schoolers:
Golden
Guides: Pond Life, Insects, Birds
Wild
Days
The Curious Naturalist:
Nature's Everyday Mysteries
Writing Naturally: A
down to earth guide to nature writing
Fun With Nature Take Along
Guide
More Fun with Nature Take
Along Guide
A Crow Doesn't Need a Shadow—great
for writing nature poetry
Hurricane Reading
Galveston's Summer of the
Storm
Magic School Bus inside a
Hurricane
Picture Study
Thomas
Locker:
Helpful booklists:
Reading Your Way through History
First
Communion Book Pages:
What my
name means (Patron Saints)
God made
the World and He made Me
Creed
(memorize and copy)
God gave
us the Bible
Guardian
Angel
Original
Sin
Gospel
of Children (JPII)
My
Baptism
Deuteronomy
(Our family’s verse)
Noah's Ark
The Ten
Commandments (re-state in my own words)
The
Prodigal Son
The Vine
and the Branches
The Lost
Coin
The Lost
Sheep
The
Steps to a good confession (cut apart and paste them in order, with my own
definition of the steps)
The Act
of Contrition
Old
Testament foreshadowing of the Eucharist :
Manna from Heaven
Ark of the Covenant – the tabernacle is our new ark of
the covenant
Paschal Lamb (the last plague)-prefigurement of Jesus
Christ, the Lamb of God
Psalm 110. M both
priest and king who offered a special sacrifice of bread and wine. Christ offered an unbloody sacrifice at the
last supper.
Malachi 1:11. “From the rising of the sun to the setting of the sun, a perfect offering will be made.”
Universal Church
New
Testament:
Jesus Christ is truly the Son of
God. He is divine. He forgave sins. He worked miracles.
Wedding at Cana
narration John 2. Jesus changed water into wine and showed that he had power over material elements
Loaves and Fishes (Small Gifts in God’s Hands
narration) again, showing power over material elements
Jesus walked on water—showed power over his own body
Resurrection—again, power over his own body
Storm on the Sea—when Jesus speaks, it becomes a reality
The Last Supper—all the miracles rolled into one miracle.
Road to Emmaeus—the disciples did not recognize him until
the breaking of the bread. We might not
recognize him but he is really present. Because
Jesus is glorified, he is not limited to normal physical limitations.
(1Corinthians 10 and 1: 1 Christians who do not recognize
the Body and Blood of Christ.) No
narration but discussion.
John 6: I am the
bread from Heaven
Order of the Mass
What we see at Mass
The
Weight of a Mass (narration)
The
Little Caterpillar That Finds Jesus (narration)
Letter from me to Jesus asking to
receive Communion
Letter to child from parents with
our prayer for her.
At the end of the book are two
pages signed by guests at First Communion and all the pictures taken that day.
Resources
for Bible stories:
The
Parables of Jesus (de Paola)
Resources
for a learning lifestyle:
Real
Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home
A
Charlotte Mason Companion (Andreola)
Educating the wholehearted child (Clarkson)
To Sing
You Must Exhale—poetry by Kathryn Mulderink,--a balm for mom’s soul
