A collection of timely crafts, books, and activities for Advent, in weekly snippets, can help families welcome the Christ Child into their hearts and homes.
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Mary Ellen Barrett December 10, 2019 2,524 Views
A collection of timely crafts, books, and activities for Advent, in weekly snippets, can help families welcome the Christ Child into their hearts and homes.
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A collection of timely crafts, books, and activities for Advent, in weekly snippets, can help families welcome the Christ Child into their hearts and homes.
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A collection of timely crafts, books, and activities for Advent, in weekly snippets, can help families welcome the Christ Child into their hearts and homes.
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Mary Ellen Barrett shares her family's traditions, crafts, and recipes through the season of Advent with books and activities for saint and feast days too!
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Making this Advent Calendar is a great way to keep your children in the spirit of Advent, and prepare for the coming of the Christ Child.
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Mary Ellen Barrett shows us how opening your home to guests in the holiday season is an act of love, which blesses both your family and your guests.
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Be creative! You make lapbooks from two file folders for math, science, literature, religion, history, even music. You are only limited by your imagination.
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Moms ask if you can provide a real childhood experience for your kids along with an excellent education. Yes, but there is a catch says Mary Ellen Barrett.
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Summer, long car rides, and picnic blanket lunches - even occasional rainy days are all great times to introduce new ways to learn math with fun math games.
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Mary Ellen has a fun craft for children to create pocket shrines honoring the Blessed Mother and the Sacred Heart of Jesus in their months of May and June.
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Mary Ellen Barrett says family traditions are not only fun but extremely appealing to children because structure and routine are of great comfort to them.
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A salt dough Crown of Thorns is a Lenten craft idea that you can use to point your children toward the Cross and show how their sacrifices will bear fruit.
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The secret to getting organized is to carve out an hour every week and treat it as sacrosanct to keep up with grading, planning, and tidying the shelves.
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The haven of homeschooling allows children to build up their resilience and acquire skills and formation to bring the change the world so desperately needs.
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Join Mary Ellen Barrett and her family to invite Advent into your homeschool, creating traditions that will bind children to both their faith and family.
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Mary Ellen Barrett shares five tried and true benefits of homeschooling and why including margin space gives children the room to just be themselves.
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Mary Ellen challenges that while being a fiercely productive homeschool mom is not easy, the rewards are enormous, and if you follow these three simple tips you will see your productivity skyrocket.
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As a young mom, Mary Ellen Barrett was caught off-guard when someone woke in the night sniffling, coughing, or worse, so she made up this shelf of supplies.
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What will homeschooling look like tomorrow? Mary Ellen Barrett asked five Seton Magazine contributors for their thoughts on the future of homeschooling.
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Mary Ellen Barrett on instilling a joy of learning in our children and why Seton Home Study School is adding more Read-Aloud books to the Pre-K curriculum.
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