Rosary Three Part Cards

Kathryn, at The Bookworm, has put together this absolutely beautiful set of three part Rosary cards for all 20 mysteries of the Rosary.

I printed them out this weekend and then laminated them.

I have decided to use them differently than the usual three part cards. I wanted the kids to learn to match each mystery with its picture, but I also want them to learn the order of each mystery. Because of my goal, I made control cards showing the proper picture and mystery, and also it shows the proper order of all five joyful mysteries etc.

We read about each of the Joyful Mysteries today, explaining them carefully and talking about the pictures, and then they went on to match their own set.

Hopefully, this will help instill a greater love and devotion to Our Blessed Mother and the Holy Rosary.

New Home-Made Learning

Over the last couple of days I have made two new learning games for Grace. I found them at Hands-on Home Learning. They have many, many free printables.

The first game is a file folder game about different animal habitats. We also got out our basket of plastic animals and found where they would live, along with the cards that we printed.

Next is a spelling/reading game. I printed out control cards that show the picture and the word.
Then, Grace matches the pictures and words that are cut out. Right now she is using the control cards to find the correct match. Eventually, she will be reading the words on her own and matching them to the pictures.

Still Schooling

I wanted Grandma H to know that there is a little schooling going on over here in the past week or two.
Of course, I count nature study as a very big part of our schooling, so if you count all the nature we have been enjoying lately, we have done a real lot of school.

But, a more concrete academic proof is this phonics file folder game I made for Grace a few days ago. I think it is Montessori-ish. Montessori is a learning style which I am learning alot about at the 4Real Learning forum. It seems to fit our learning lifestyle very well.

Luke also enjoyed weighing his vehicles on our scale today. It is never to early for science, even for a 2 year old.Becky took these pictures yesterday when she noticed the afternoon sun coming through the window. They are just beautiful.