The Crown of Catholic Homeschool
Is The Baltimore Catechism!

Catholic homeschool is the best time to teach the Catholic prayers and the Catholic catechism answers! Children learn them easily with St. Anne's Helper! Add your favorite homeschool ideas on our Homeschool forum below. St. Anne's Helper makes homeschooling easier with Audio CDs, Catholic worksheets, and Catholic coloring pages!

We choose Catholic homeschool (accredited homeschool program, or not) in order to use the Catholic catechism for children. Catholic Baptism, Catholic Eucharist and Confirmation preparations are the best times to learn about the Catholic prayers and Catholic saints. When we keep our children home from institutional schools we have the freedom to choose the best books and we frequently settle on some version of the Baltimore Catechism. Submit your favorite choices on the form below!

A helping hand with instruction and drill are always welcome, especially if it is on hand all day at anytime! Help and be helped. The basic Catholic beliefs in the St. Anne's Helper series Audio Catechism and Catechism Copybook (printable worksheets) use the most frequently asked questions for First Communion and Catholic Confirmation and are like having a tutor available at anytime!

Would you like to find free coloring pages to print for your Catholic catechism class? We have many LONG pages with several lists of Catholic coloring pages.

Use Known Catholic Principles

Once you have a good catechism for children all Catholic books can be compared to it, simply because all books can be compared to the Ten Commandments and the Apostles' Creed. All large decisions in life can be compared to the basic Catholic beliefs. This certitude makes using Catholic values so much easier which is the main reason we choose to homeschool!

Catholic homeschool can be the very best place to start whether in accredited homeschool programs or not.

- Find good answers to the Catechism. Beware some publishing houses' versions.

- Use the principle of non-contradiction. (A thing cannot be true AND not true at the same time.)

- Always choose the better answer. (It is precise and usually concise.)

Compare!

Does the catechism that you use teach these truths?

- God is the Creator of Heaven and earth and of all things; Creation and the term Heaven are often missing.

- Original Sin;

- singular confession answers for the sacrament of Penance;

- non-subjective answers like Baptism IS, Confirmation IS, the Holy Eucharist IS, the Mass IS, etc.

First Communion Catechism!

First Communion is usually the first sacrament studied in a Catholic homeschool. School is geared toward learning the Catholic prayers, Ten Commandments, and the seven sacraments. Reading little books or stories from the Catholic Bible and the different Catholic saints really fill out the school day. Children learn to love the people in the Bible and the saints from history just as they like learning about their relatives and friends in a photo album.

It can sometimes be very hard to find good Catholic books that that give Catholic details. St. Anne's Helper has met this difficulty in the Audio Catechism and Catechism Copybook for First Communion. Once the children learn the basics they can move on to bigger ideas. Getting the basics right is easy with St. Anne's Helper.

Catholic Confirmation Catechism!

Confirmation can be a harder subject to find explicit instruction in Catholic beliefs. Its questions and answers used to be woven with the higher levels of the Baltimore Catechism and newer books aren't easy to find in many bookstores.

During the early 1900s many parishes had the Confirmation on the same day as the First Communion! With good reason, too. This is the sacrament that gives us the grace to be strong in the Faith and to persevere, but it isn't necessary to know all of the basics in order to be well disposed to receive the sacrament. So the little catechisms of the early 1900s covered only three or four questions on Confirmation! The important thing to remember is that the sacrament confers the grace with or without grueling academics. Being well disposed to receive the sacrament does not mean getting an A+ in a rigorous program. It means wanting to receive the graces and being in the state of grace to receive it well.

The place where the rigorous academics can help the disposition is when the questions and answers, method, and way of life teach the student to know, love and serve God. The better he studies the better he might know Him, which means he has the better capacity to love and serve Him. This is one reason religious and parents are thrilled with a bright student. This is also a sign of a vocation since the student has a better start knowing God.

In a Catholic homeschool the learning never quits. Whether we are actively studying or simply doing our routine chores we have the opportunity to learn. All our learning is supposed to lead us to God - this is the very purpose of education! At home the Faith can be better integrated with the family since the members are all learning the same things.

Confirmation is also the subject more adults need the answers to because so many did not go on to receive the sacrament of Confirmation after being baptized or receiving Communion. Having an audiobook catechism for them is so handy since they can learn the basic Catholic beliefs as they drive or do minor chores. The review is easy!

St. Anne's Audio Catechism and Copybook (or printable worksheets) for Confirmation is taken from several Confirmation booklets and can be used to supplement accredited homeschool programs and eclectic approaches. All of the questions required or asterisked in little booklets were included.

Catholic Homeschool Dictation Using A White Board!

An 8' x 4' white board is usually less than $30 if you get melamine coated masonite at a building supply store. Frame yours, if you like with, inexpensive mold-board. It is so great to have plenty of space to write without needing to spend hundreds of dollars!

This way the teacher can teach from dictation with some copy help for younger students. With the dictation approach the teacher does not write the word first unless the student has trouble with a new word. The teacher reminds the student of a particular phonics rule or then models how a big word is spelled. This takes longer, but rewards the student with life-long spelling skills. St. Anne's Helper Copybooks can be used as printable worksheets for manuscript and cursive writing penmanship practice.

Lowe's and other lumber stores have melamine coated masonite and many office supply stores carry proper whiteboards that you can use in a Catholic homeschool or classroom.

These home school providers have great resources and ideas too:

Homeschool Articles at Homeschool-Living.com
There are several excellent Catholic homeschool articles on this page. I like these two best: "Designing Your Homeschool Curriculum: Choose Latin!" and "Parents, Know the Four Temperaments" since learning Latin and knowing the four temperaments have been giant helps in our family. They actually offer short cuts in school and daily living. Anna Marie has a great grasp on the value of Latin and of knowing the four temperaments. Not only have her children graduated from college, she has a son who is a priest and one preparing to be a lawyer!

Homeschool Faith and Family Life
This is a sweet site that has a list of the benefits of homeschooling. Judy has published her own sweet Catholic Ebook, too.

The Catholic Homeschool Society
Links To Catholic Businesses Who Appreciate Your Support! "We connect Catholic Homeschool groups together... As Catholic Homeschool families, we understand each other's needs and support each other's livelihoods and businesses, which helps to enable parents to be home with their children,and encourages family-based businesses.

Catholic Homeschool Blog Directory
See this Directory for Catholic Homeschool Blogs as listed by state!

Share Your Favorite Catholic Home School Books and Catholic Resources!

You can share your favorite Catholic home school books, resources, crafts, and awards to give the reasons and even the benefits to you and your family and be encouraged to leave pictures, too.

Others will have a good chance to see if those same books might become one of their favorites as well! We all like to have short cuts! Scroll down to see submissions from our visitors!

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Share favorite Catholic Home School curriculum advice. Tell others what's worked best for you. How many years? Favorite Catholic books? Enrolled or not?

Seton Home Study School


Our Lady of Victory


Kolbe Academy


Mother of Divine Grace School


Our Lady of the Rosary School


Catholic Heritage Curricula


Other Catholic Home School Ideas

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