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Freebie Friday: Free Resources for Your Lenten Reflections

February 22, 2013 by Tina Leave a Comment

I have JUST finished commenting on some of the blog posts in our “Keep Love in Lent” Link-up and I am so inspired by all that I’ve read so far. I know I should be working/writing, but I decided to read the posts “assigned” to me as part of my reflections for today — and I’m glad I did! (Pls. do take a look at the Link-up if you have the time, you won’t regret it!)

While reading some of the entries, I realized that, aside from our family Lenten traditions, and the daily Mass readings, I don’t have any additional resources specifically for Lent. Some of the other Catholic bloggers have lists of Lenten readings and reflections, so I decided to look for my own, too, and I will try to incorporate them into my daily prayer and Scripture reading time (which I still struggle with, so please pray for me!).

I found a few free resources online, so I’m sharing them with you all here. I hope you’ll find them useful. 🙂 God bless, everyone!

Free eBooks: Lenten meditations and reflections

Free Lent Resources from IgnatianSpirituality.com

Season of Lent & Holy Week: On-Line Lenten Resources, Activities & Devotions for Catholics, Orthodox and Protestant Christians

(Photo source: http://www.bernardine.org/lent.html)

Freebie Friday: StoryNory.com — Listen to Children’s Audio Stories for FREE! :)

February 15, 2013 by Tina 3 Comments

Today is a super hectic day for me, as I have lots of deadlines to meet. We weren’t able to join the families of Catholic Filipino Academy on their outreach activity to Anawim this morning, as Tim isn’t feeling that well. Formal homeschooling will have to wait for now, as I have articles to write and edit. In the meantime, both kids are hanging out with me here in the living room, while I attempt to make sense of all that I have to do. (Lord, please help! 🙂 )

Thank goodness, then, for Storynory, a website I discovered a few years ago, when we were still based in Timor Leste. Your kids (and you!) can listen to lots of audio stories online, or even download them for listening later on in your mp3 players, computers, cellphones or other gadgets.

The stories are categorized such: Original Stories, Fairytales, Classic, Educational and Junior. If you have younger kids, I would suggest you start with the Junior stories first. 🙂

Most of the stories are told by a storyteller named Natasha, in a British accent. This may be a bit of a challenge if our kids aren’t so used to British-speaking people, but you can also look at it as an exercise for their auditory/listening skills. 🙂

All right, that’s it for now! 🙂 Time to get back to work! Hope you and your kids enjoy Storynory as much as we do! 🙂

Freebie Friday: FREE Printables for Celebrating the Feast of Christ the King and Advent (from Raising & Teaching Little Saints)

November 16, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

The Feast of Christ the King is already next week, and do you know that that means? Advent will soon be here, which means Christmas is just around the corner! 🙂 Hurray! 🙂

To help us make these celebrations even more meaningful, my friend and fellow homeschool mom/Catholic Bloggers Network member Erika of Raising & Teaching Little Saints has prepared FREE printables! 🙂 (She actually did these last year, but you can still use them this year of course.) She also included links to other great resources for living these liturgical feasts/seasons in our homes. 🙂 Just click on each link below.

Celebrating the Liturgical Year with Children: Feast of Christ the King
Celebrating the Liturgical Year with Children: Advent

For more fabulous ideas from Raising & Teaching Little Saints, please go ahead and “Like” them on Facebook and add them to your Interest Lists.

You can also follow , and . 🙂

Have an awesome weekend ahead, folks! 🙂 And thank YOU again for reminding us — especially me! — to “pray, hope and don’t worry!” (Please do read my post about that on philstar.com’s unBLOGGED section here.)

Thanks again! 🙂 WE ARE BLESSED BECAUSE OF YOU ALL! 😛

Freebie Friday: Free Curriculum Guides for the (Philippine) DepEd K-12 Curriculum

July 20, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

A fellow homeschool mom shared this link on one of our Facebook group’s pages:

The K-12 Basic Education Program

It leads to the Official Gazette page on programs and policies that discusses the recently-approved K-12 Basic Education Program, which is already being implemented in Philippine schools.

There are also links to downloadable PDF files of the different curriculum guides there, too, which I’m sure parents (and educators) will find pretty useful. 🙂 (I know we do, especially since we’re going to be using a U.S. based K-12 homeschool curriculum soon!)

I hope this helps you guys, too! Incidentally, what do YOU think of the Philippine’s K-12 Basic Education Program? I’d love to know! Feel free to leave a comment below. 🙂

Freebie Friday: Tons of Free Homeschool Resources!

July 13, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

Y’all know that I am a ~~struggling~~ homeschool mom who also happens to be quite frugal (or kuripot, as we say in the Philippines!).

Since I started blogging and being active on social media websites, I have received quite a few inquiries about homeschooling (which is why I maintain a separate blog on homeschooling altogether). I do my best to answer people’s questions —to the best of my abilities and based on my limited experience, plus interactions with other homeschoolers. 🙂

I try to help out other homeschoolers, especially here in the Philippines, as much as I can and I believe this Freebie Friday post may be useful to non-homeschoolers, too, who wish to enhance their children’s learning experiences at home (or anywhere else — remember, “the world is our classroom,” as one of my fellow homeschool mom’s blogs says.

So without further ado, here are a few (because there are SO MANY!) links to FREE homeschool resources. Hope these help y’all somehow! God bless!

I found this image here, another site with homeschool freebies! 🙂

1. Especially for (but not limited to) homeschool organization, forms and record-keeping —
Donna Young’s Printables and Resources

2. A variety of compiled resources — includes links to resources for Bible Study, Life Skills, Mathematics, Language Arts, Phonics, Printables + Worksheets, Writing, Art and MORE!:
Free Homeschooling Resources (I don’t know who compiled the resources here, but I was pleasantly surprised to find my homeschool blog listed there! Cool!)

3. The Happy Housewife’s compilation of Free Homeschool Resources — Contains a lot of links to other great homeschool bloggers’ sites, too! 🙂

4. Free Homeschool Math Resources from HomeschoolMath.net — Its site description explains it all: “… a comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents, parents, and teachers that includes free math worksheets, lessons, online math games lists, ebooks, a curriculum guide, reviews, and more. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead of mechanical memorization of rules.”

5. Free Homeschool Curriculum + Other Resources from Homeschool Buyers Co-op — Site description: “…the Co-op’s database of free curriculum and other educational resources. We hope you will find curriculum and other resources here that engage and enlighten your children!

Note: We make every effort to recommend websites that have content that is appropriate for general audiences, but parents should ALWAYS preview the sites for suitable content.”

6. An Old-Fashioned Education — It’s described as “a directory of free homeschool curricula, literature and text books organized for the use of homeschooling families.” I’m going to try to go through this site this weekend — Miss Maggie, the owner, creator and mom of that site has a treasure trove of resources!

7. Free Homeschool Curriculum on Successful Homeschooling —This is a compilation of links to free homeschool curricula. 🙂