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God_Seeker_1
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What literature is there out there which can guide a parent in cathechizing their children?
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Joe_5859
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What age are you looking at?
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God_Seeker_1
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5 years
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Chantal25
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My catholic family DVD. Brother Francis DVD series. My first bible (they have some that are for young children), many little pocket book to learn about different thing in our catholic faith. Mother Mary and her guardian angel, would be good to get. Get a rosary and try to learn the Mother Mary prayer.
The have puzzle, game, etc…
If you search, you will find a Catholic store for children on line. In my area, we can buy our items locally we have two good store that specialize with Catholic material and sacred object.
The have puzzle, game, etc…
If you search, you will find a Catholic store for children on line. In my area, we can buy our items locally we have two good store that specialize with Catholic material and sacred object.
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Joe_5859
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My daughter just turned 6, so I guess it’s pretty close. 
We’re using the Mother of Divine Grace curriculum for homeschooling. For Kindergarten, the religion component pretty much just involves reading through the Golden Children’s Bible every day and listening to a song from 36 Traditional Roman Catholic Hymns Book and CD. She also goes to Catechesis of the Good Shepherd every week, too.
There are some good pre-K and K textbooks out there, too. The Image of God series has books for that age. Allelu! from OSV is good, too. It is geared solely for ages 3-5.
I’m also impressed with OSV’s forthcoming Alive in Christ series. They’ve got a few nice resources up already for family and home study and once it is fully operational, I imagine it will be even better. That starts at first grade, though. But it is something to keep in mind for the future.
We’re using the Mother of Divine Grace curriculum for homeschooling. For Kindergarten, the religion component pretty much just involves reading through the Golden Children’s Bible every day and listening to a song from 36 Traditional Roman Catholic Hymns Book and CD. She also goes to Catechesis of the Good Shepherd every week, too.
There are some good pre-K and K textbooks out there, too. The Image of God series has books for that age. Allelu! from OSV is good, too. It is geared solely for ages 3-5.
I’m also impressed with OSV’s forthcoming Alive in Christ series. They’ve got a few nice resources up already for family and home study and once it is fully operational, I imagine it will be even better. That starts at first grade, though. But it is something to keep in mind for the future.
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pamnbam
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EWTN has some great kids shows. My 5-year-old loves We Are Catholic and The Friar. Truth in the Heart is good if you can catch the right age group (it alternates grades 1-5). Brother Francis is also a good series, but I think you can only buy DVDs right now (not airing on EWTN). Most of the EWTN shows you can get DVDs for, if you like.
Do an Internet search for Catholic Heritage Curricula and Seton Homeschool. Those are geared towards homeschooling families, but you can buy a workbook here, a reader there, not the whole academic program if you don’t want to. I use CHC for religion workbooks often. Also Leaflet Missal and Catholic Child are websites that sell Catholic toys, games, and books. The St. Joseph Picture Books series is good, and you can buy a lot at under $2 apiece.
Do an Internet search for Catholic Heritage Curricula and Seton Homeschool. Those are geared towards homeschooling families, but you can buy a workbook here, a reader there, not the whole academic program if you don’t want to. I use CHC for religion workbooks often. Also Leaflet Missal and Catholic Child are websites that sell Catholic toys, games, and books. The St. Joseph Picture Books series is good, and you can buy a lot at under $2 apiece.
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coopnann
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I am so glad to see all of these resources. I have been looking for things as well. I will be looking into the above suggestions. It is hard to find things on your own!
Recently I ordered Magnifikid from the people that put out Magnificat. I think 5 years old may be a little young for it, I will be using it with our 6 year old (starting tomorrow actually!), and I think that is the youngest I would start with it.
Magnifikid is a little booklet for each week that has the Sunday Mass readings and order of the Mass for the children to read along, a misselette in each issue. Also in each weekly booklet are a few activities and explanations of things in the Mass, readings, and prayers, also explains some vocabulary in the readings and prayers. I have been looking at our one we start tomorrow, and I can tell I will be learning things in it too.
I am really happy with it, hope our daughter is too!
Here is a link if you are interested: magnificat.net/magnifikid/index.asp
A great online source for activities, we have used a few times and have liked all the ones we tried, is Catholic Icing, written by a Mom: catholicicing.com/
We did some Thanksgiving, Advent, and Lent activities from there and enjoyed them.
Recently I ordered Magnifikid from the people that put out Magnificat. I think 5 years old may be a little young for it, I will be using it with our 6 year old (starting tomorrow actually!), and I think that is the youngest I would start with it.
Magnifikid is a little booklet for each week that has the Sunday Mass readings and order of the Mass for the children to read along, a misselette in each issue. Also in each weekly booklet are a few activities and explanations of things in the Mass, readings, and prayers, also explains some vocabulary in the readings and prayers. I have been looking at our one we start tomorrow, and I can tell I will be learning things in it too.
I am really happy with it, hope our daughter is too!
Here is a link if you are interested: magnificat.net/magnifikid/index.asp
A great online source for activities, we have used a few times and have liked all the ones we tried, is Catholic Icing, written by a Mom: catholicicing.com/
We did some Thanksgiving, Advent, and Lent activities from there and enjoyed them.
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sweetpetunia
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I grew up with the St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism series, and I loved them. Because they are done in question and answer format, they have so much content, and are fun to read. The first Baltimore Catechism (Volume 0) is for six and seven year olds / grades one and two. Some of the pictures are a little old-fashioned and traditional (I believe they’re reprints from around the 60’s), but the teaching is terrific, both thorough and solid. They also have a new version with updated typeset and covers, but I kind of like the originals
You can see a sample of pages here:
catholiccompany.com/st-joseph-revised-baltimore-catechism-first-communion-grades-1-2-p1011133/#
and amazon’s current listing price is just $2.26 for the first volume. The subsequent and thicker volumes are still under $5.00 each, though.
You can see a sample of pages here:
catholiccompany.com/st-joseph-revised-baltimore-catechism-first-communion-grades-1-2-p1011133/#
and amazon’s current listing price is just $2.26 for the first volume. The subsequent and thicker volumes are still under $5.00 each, though.
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Soren_Itenu
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Sweetpetunia’s suggestion!
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