St Joseph Feast day

It was a great day and children read the Story of St Joseph. Kids did some word search and puzzle, learnt the tradition of keeping St Joseph altar.We bought life of St Joseph colouring page from Holy Heroes

                               
                                          
                                                 Card made by Munnu

                                      Card from Theresu

Annu and Munnu decorated St Joseph altar and they made some tools and baked in oven.Even they made a b beautiful card of their own for their appa and amazing.

We had meal together and they gave card to appa, prayed for all dads and husbands.Towards evening we went to St Joseph church for the deanery mass and enjoyed the day.Some of the resources used are it is on my to do list, A slice of smith life, catholic icing and a beautiful lapbook from Shower of roses.

                                St Joseph Pray for us.

St Patrick's Day

Another wonderful feast day during lent. We went for the Holy Mass in one of the Irish church in Chorlton, read the Life of St Patrick book with children. Children got some shammrock leaves from the church.

Kidoos worn green dress and went for the Holy Mass, came back home and studied about St Patrick, the place where he was born, his journey, miracles and death. Looked at maps and plotted places in Ireland, researched little bit about celtic cross, traditional food, Gaelic language and wrote a paragraph on St Patrick. Annu, Munnu and Theresu is having lot of fun trying to learn some Irish dance and children had a treasure hunt and was fun too.

Although I had some plans to make Irish soda bread , I couldn't do in the end. But it was a great day in our family.Some of the resources I borrowed from Real Life at Home, Love grows wild and Secrets of a super mommy.

                         


                               ST PATRICK ORA PRO NOBIS

Mothering Sunday

It was the Mothering Sunday and 4Th Sunday of Lent (Lautere Sunday). Traditions says that in England girls used to do jobs like household, teaching and other and get holidays that day to stay with the family. Simnel cake is made by double layer cake with almond paste in both layers.

As a family we had a great day and had a lovely time sharing gospel to young children in Blackburn .Annu, Munnu and Theresu made a beautiful card, Annu made a chain for my and handbag and was amazing.


I received an astonishing All about Mom note from Annu and Munnu which opened my eyes and thanked Lord for their sweetness in our life. Theresu gave me a coloring picture.

Annu's 10th birthday & Joseph and the technicolor dream coat movie

It was Annu's birthday on8th of March and thank God it was a wonderful day. We went for Holy Mass and thanked Lord for the last ten years of Annukuttan in our lives.

Annu liked Joseph and the technicolor dream coat songs and it was decided to watch this movie with her friends during her birthday party. Annu is drawing Joseph in his multicolored coat.

Theresu is coloring the picture of Joseph and she enjoys the Joseph songs.

                             Munnu is making birthday garlands.

     Ann with her friends

 Tried to make a multicolored coat cake by decorating with M &M 'S.

                   

                                Kidoos watching the movie

 Below is the gift which Munnu brought for his sister by himself from the nearby shop. Great thought from her brother.

                                    Birthday card from Theresu.

                                    Card from her aunty Reeby from India.

Bible History

Some of the important catholic resources for teaching Bible History is found in catholic icing, sanctussimpliciticus, biblehistory, Bible road trip, salvationhistory.com, matermabilis, catholic toolbox with sunday school house with timelines, montissori timeline and book on 'tell me about the catholic faith'. Another one is book of centuries recommended by Charlotte Mason is in catholic icing

A very hungry Caterpillar

Theresu is learning the story of very hungry caterpillar and painted a caterpillar. 

Snowman and Children

This years much awaited snow for children, made a huge snowman by children themselves and spent nearly 2-3 hours.

On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

Our family had a lovely day on Our Lady of Lourdes feast day  and the day before we watched the movie of Our Lady Of Lourdes.. Yesterday was our homeschooling day and our family was meant to conduct the day. Children gathered in the St Joseph hall after spending some time before the Lord. All of them shared the story in the story making thread and Grotto  craft was done and all went well with His grace. I got some good resources from shower of roses and waltzingam

Below grotto is made by Munnu.

Little ones in the group making paper grotto,colored Our Lady's picture and decorated with tissue paper.

                                         Our Lady of Lourdes Ora Pro Nobis

On the feast Of St Blaise

We could attend Holy Mass and had blessing of the throat by the priest using X shaped candles. We

listened to the podcast  on St Blaise . Since this time of the year is a notorious time of coughs and colds and it is time to be known as many absentees.

                                 St Blaise Ora pro nobis