Goals and Tools to Reach Them

I posted our school schedule and will follow up with my game plan - my goals for first grade. Note that I am only homeschooling one. In high school with my older children, I preferred a "canned" curriculum with few substitutions, mainly religion and sometimes science. In these early grades, I really like individualizing the curriculum to my child. I really like CHC and Charlotte Mason, both, but it ends up being a hodpodge of subjects and text that I think will work for us.
Here are the goals I have set for the first grade and the tools I plan on using to help meet them. Pay close attention to "School is FUN". It is listed last, but will be a focus this year.

(Hint: Use the icon in the top right hand corner of the Scribd frame below. It toggles to full screen where you are able to zoom also.)

First Grade Goals 2009

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Deo Gratis. Luke has been found.

Please pray for the safe return of Luke Diller. Please see Colleen's blog for further info.

First Grade Schedule

I have been busy working on school stuff. We are very laid back when it comes to schooling, but you could not tell it by our schedule. Evening work is done with Dad . We always get the core curriculum done, but everything else is movable. Here is what it is looking like.

2009 Schedule

Video of Young Traditionalists

This is a great video of young traditionalists who recognize where their futures lie.

No to Catholic News Service

In the past I have always carried the Catholic News Service on my Shared Items on the sidebar. After reading this article I am removing the site from my Google Reader.

ArticleFor Those Who Are Among Us, But Not With Us

Thanks to +JMJ+ at Totus Tuus for pointing to this article on those who refuse to accept the Catholic Church's teachings and want to change the Church that Our Lord founded.
The following paragraph sums up my frustrated feelings over the last several years and why I am a Traditional Catholic.

You are free to decide where and with whom you stand. You do not, however, have the right to try to change the Catholic Church to suit your opinions or wishes. No matter how brilliant you are, you are not above the Magisterium. No matter how persuasive the political position, you cannot ignore the law of the Church and the Natural Law. Doctrine and Orthodoxy may be distasteful words in this age of personal freedoms, but if you call yourself Catholic, you need to know what Catholic doctrine actually says and follow it. All of it – not just this or that particular idea that suits your preferences. The Church is not a cafeteria. You are not free to take some things and leave others.

and, there is this:

Either live as a Catholic Christian or don’t, but stop trying to remodel the Church to make it more appealing to the world. Learn your Catholic faith, understand it correctly and LIVE IT out in public without apologizing. Stop compromising the truth. Quit trying to rewrite Church teaching to bring it “up to speed” with modern times. The Church is not out of step with society; society is out of step with the Church. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and thus His Church is timeless, ageless and always perfectly relevant. It is not the Church who needs to change her thinking; it is society that needs to CORRECT its thinking.

Well said.

A Great Article on What Might Come Next

This is a great article by David Kupelian explaining what may very well happen as a result of the killing of the abortionist. He actually wrote it before the attack. Read the entire article at WorldNetDaily.

Here is the beginning:

The real danger of right-wing extremists

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Posted: June 01, 2009
12:23 am Eastern

© 2009

Author's note: Although I wrote the following article two weeks ago for the June edition of Whistleblower (titled "DON'T TREAD ON ME," for release later this week), the murder of Wichita abortionist George Tiller, M.D., makes its message especially urgent.

There's only one thing that could seriously, perhaps fatally, derail all the principled, well-intentioned, patriotic efforts currently taking place to rein in the shocking and unconstitutional power-grabbing by Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress. And that would be for elements on the Right to turn to violence.