Homeschooling is keeping me very busy this week. Coordinating 8 children’s school work is not easy but at least my curriculum makes it less tough. I am able to focus on researching other educational opportunities for the children like on the job training opportunities, volunteer, museum visits, mountain travel and other things. I also get [...]
November 3, 2009
Categories: Catholic Homeschooling, Catholic Robinson Curriculum . Tags: Catholic Homeschooling, recent reviews on Robinson curriculum., Robinson Curriculum Reviews . Author: mrstreasures . Comments: Leave a Comment
Our 16 year old learned to cook Fajitas for the first time. He enjoyed the raves of his siblings.
Read “Top Questions Asked of Large Families”.
October 26, 2009
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I have compiled a good resource to study Economics in high school. Check my article entitled “College Preparation: Top Books and Resources on Economics”.
September 25, 2009
Categories: Catholic Homeschooling, Catholic Robinson Curriculum, Economics, homeschooling . . Author: mrstreasures . Comments: Leave a Comment
Read my Catholic blog on why I do not recommend the “Jefferson Education Method” of homeschooling.
READ IT HERE.
September 25, 2009
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September 15, 2009
Categories: Catholic Family, Catholic Homeschooling, Family Activities, Fun Break, Personal . Tags: after surgery, gallbladder disease, gallbladder surgery, gallbladders stones removal, prior to surgery, results of gallbladder surgery . Author: mrstreasures . Comments: 1 Comment
I wrote an article last year about my experience with Pope John Paul II. It was entitled “Who Else Wants to See the Pope?” It was an informal essay on my first encounter with Pope John Paul II.
The visit of Pope John Paul II to the Philippines in February 16, 1981 and eventually in [...]
September 7, 2009
Categories: Catholic Family, Catholic Homeschooling, Catholic Resources, Catholic Robinson Curriculum, Family Activities, raising children . Tags: Catholic Homeschooling, how to do the family consecration, how to raise catholic children, how to save the youth of today, moral decay in american society, pope john paul II as intercessor for the youth, Pope John Paul II influence to youth, raising godly catholic children, the role of John Paul II in families, the role of Mary in Families, to know Mary is to know Jesus . Author: mrstreasures . Comments: Leave a Comment
My article on “Public Versus Homeschooling: Which is Better?” has been published. The article enlightens any parent to cease being blind about the current moral decay in public school. Many public schools have great academic programs. However, how can we entrust our children to a Godless institution, a place where prayer is forbidden. [...]
September 3, 2009
Categories: Catholic Family, Catholic Homeschooling, Catholic Resources, Catholic Robinson Curriculum, homeschooling, raising children, teens . . Author: mrstreasures . Comments: 1 Comment
A typical homeschooling schedule using Robinson Curriculum, the Catholic way:
7-8 am Wake up, Morning Prayer, Prayer in Honor of Your Guardian Angel and 7 Glory Be’s
8-9 am Breakfast, Walk the Dog or Daily Mass
9-11 am Mental Math, Math Facts, Saxon Math
11-12 pm Reading (Literature from the RC core reading list for appropriate level or grade)- [...]
August 30, 2009
Categories: Catholic Family, Catholic Homeschooling, Catholic Resources, Home, Large Families, Robinson Curriculum, homeschooling . Tags: catholic homeschool reviews, Catholic Robinson Curriculum, homeschool reviews, how I homeschool the catholic way, mrs. treasures, Proposed Catholic curriculum, Robinson Curriculum Schedule, self-teaching curriculum . Author: mrstreasures . Comments: 2 Comments
Is there such thing as a Catholic Robinson Curriculum for Homeschooling?
Though I am not a pioneer in this philosophy, I have decided to use this curriculum for 8 of my 9 children that I am raising. My first born is already in a Catholic college at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina. I have a [...]
August 30, 2009
Categories: Catholic Family, Catholic Homeschooling, Catholic Resources, Large Families, homeschooling . Tags: Robinson Curriculum, Catholic Robinson Curriculum, Catholic homeschooling curriculum, Catholic homeschooling reviews, SETON, MODG, Angelicum Academy, Kolbe Academy, SETON Home Study, Catholics and Homeschooling, Should Catholics Pull their kids out of Public School? . Author: mrstreasures . Comments: Leave a Comment
Mary Ellen Barrett is a Catholic writer and contributor to the Long Island Catholic newspaper. Her son, Ryan Barrett, 14 years old, had a seizure and drowned at the North-South Lake campground in Haines Falls. Last August 13, 2009, Ryan, his father and 6 year old brother arrived at the camping ground. This was an [...]
August 16, 2009
Categories: Catholic Family, Catholic Homeschooling, Catholic Resources, Large Families, Marriage, homeschooling . Tags: Autistic Boy drowned, Catholic writer sons drowned, comfort for mothers who lost their child, grief due to death, Lindenhurst family mourns autistic teen's drowning, Mary Ellen Barrett, resignation to God's will, Ryan Barrett, what to do when your child dies . Author: mrstreasures . Comments: 1 Comment