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If you're a homeschooler you are probably already familiar with Pam Barnhill and her podcasts. Listening to her interviews with experienced homeschooling parents over the years has frequently provided the necessary encouragement and inspiration I needed to keep going with this challenging lifestyle and educational approach. One of her podcasts, Your Morning Basket, is about an approach to whole family learning that is really similar to our Calendar Class practice. So back in December when we were in Lebanon Pam invited me to share what we do with her listeners and the podcast is now available on her website. Hope you enjoy listening to the conversation!
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![]() At some point this month an interview I gave to Pam Barnhill for her podcast "Your Morning Basket" will be published, so I've prepared this blog post for any of her listeners interested in seeing what a customized calendar class curriculum could look like for a Catholic family like our's. We're always tweaking it but most of what is in the plan below stays the same from year to year. As always, if you have any questions we'd love to hear from you. Just send us a message on our FB page (the Kirkos Caravan) or an email to kirkoscaravanhomeschool@gmail.com. The Assaf Family’s Calendar Class Overview Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Seasonally, Annually *Daily Calendar Class: P.E.S.C.L. Sequence four times a day= Pray, Eat, Study, Clean, Leisure at breakfast, lunch, tea time, and dinner Nine O’Clock Pray: morning offering noting the date, saint, and weather of the day Eat: Breakfast and vitamins Study: Calendar Class then independent studies with journals -Readings on the Four Cycles of Life of the day; entries in our perpetual and school journals Resources: catholicculture.org, Aleteia.org, Saint of the Day books, New Teacher’s Almanack, Chamber’s Book of Days, Farmer’s Almanac, History of the Day apps, 365 Nature book, Nature Connection book -Copy-memory work recitation and cursive practice -Lessons of the day, independent studies with journal entries Clean: Kitchen and finish anything left over from the morning routine, household chores Leisure: Play outdoors, move, stretch, tone, juggle Noon Pray: Angelus or Regina Caeli Eat: Lunch Study: Story Studies Clean: kitchen Leisure: nap or quiet time Three O’Clock Pray: Divine Mercy Prayer Eat: Tea Time healthy snack or treat Study: Arts Appreciation with Morning Time plans and other selected resources for art study, history, geography, anthropology, nature study (indoors or out), music appreciation, poetry, instrument and voice practice, theater and circus skills practice, educational game or documentary Clean: kitchen Leisure: play dates or outings Six O’Clock Pray: Gratitude and Arabic meal graces Eat: Dinner Study: Kitchen Classroom--cooking, cleaning, decoration, manners, conversation about the day Clean: kitchen, bedrooms, household chores, get ready for bed Leisure: Family Hearth Ritual prayers, hymns, family formation readings, coloring or drawing, tuck-in ritual *The first of the week (Sundays), month, season, and year-- special celebrations with family and friends including: -Themed graces, litany, memory prayers and hymns -Themed food and drink -Themed decorations, crafts, art, music -Readings and conversation about the themes and plans for that particular time period (year, season, month..) and the Four Cycles of Life in it, with journal entries and recitations -Homesteading activity, seasonal tree/wreath/garland decoration, and nature study walk -Bonfire with Storytelling Theater, themed games, and a sing-a-long Monthly Themes Through the Year Winter: Sages, Death, Christmas, Carnival, memory work Sage stories, songs, and poems, snow and ice sports, baking, fire-making December: Winter Solstice, St. Nicholas, St. Lucia, Advent and Christmas, Month of the Incarnation, memory work carols, Christmas basket-making January: New Year’s Eve Play about the Four Cycles of Life and Time, Annual Agenda, Month of the Holy Name of Jesus, St. Anthony, St. John Bosco, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Holy Family, Cordelia and Tony’s birthdays, memory work Solo per Oggi February: Love, Month of the Holy Family, St. Valentine, St. Marun, Valentina’s birthday, memory work 1 Corinthians 13 Spring: Lent and Easter, Apprentices, Growth, field trips in Rome, Italy, Lebanon, Europe , memory work stories, songs, and poems of apprentices, planting, hiking, lawn games, kite flying, animal husbandry, Spring cleaning of the home, body, garden, soul March: Spring Equinox and World Storytelling Day, Month of St. Joseph, St. Francesca Romana, St. Patrick, St. Rafqa, St. Dominic Savio, Lebanese Mother’s Day, memory work Lorica of St. Patrick, Easter basket-making April: Easter, Month of the Holy Spirit, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Mark, memory work Easter hymns May: Marian and May traditions, Month of Mary, St Philip Neri, Maya’s birthday, U.S. Mother’s Day, memory work Marian hymns and May themed poems Summer: Missionaries, Flourishing, Ordinary Time, field trips in Michigan and the U.S., memory work songs, stories, and poems about adulthood/vocations, camping, tending garden and animals, water sports June: Summer Solstice, Month of the Sacred Heart, Corpus Christi, St. John the Baptist’s nativity, Sts. Peter and Paul, Father’s Day, memory work folk songs July: American History and Folk Culture, Month of the Most Precious Blood, Visitation, memory work patriotic songs, poems, and speeches August: Michigan History, Month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, memory work Michigan poems, songs, and stories Autumn: Decline, Teachers, Harvest, Ordinary Time, memory work songs, stories, and poems about Teachers, harvesting, cross country, hiking September: Autumn Equinox, St. Michael, Month of the Holy Cross, memory work St. Michael the Archangel prayer October: Month of the Holy Rosary and the Holy Angels, All Saints party, Souls, Spirits, and the Supernatural, St. Francis, Joseph and Andrea’s birthdays, memory work ghost stories November: Month of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, Thanksgiving and Gratitude, St. Andrew, memory work Thanksgiving recitations |
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