Just completed: Our Little Timeline of the Old Testament

Start learning history from the very beginning

When do you teach that history begins in your homeschool or CCD class?  In our little homeschool, we teach that history begins at the very beginning of time.  The start of everything begins with God's creative glory; God created everything out of nothing.  To help teach this awesome concept to our children, we use the Old Testament, of course.

We have had such great response to our Life of Christ Timeline both from our own children as well as online visitors that we decided to do a new timeline to go with the history of the Old Testament of the Bible. 

Our new timeline goes with the first half of the book, Child's Bible History by Rev. F.J. Knecht and covers some of the earliest historical occurrences.  You will find that the author focuses on 28 historical stories from the Bible, most of which are contained in the first few books of the Bible.  This read is suitable for grades 3-5 and so many of the events and topics are suited specifically for them. We have created our timeline to accompany this work although it can very easily be used independently of it.

This resource includes the timeline lines, the pieces for the timeline and a references sheet.  A unique feature of this timeline is that we have included the scripture references for each of the events highlighted.  Younger students may simply just put the timeline up and add the pieces in order.  Older learners may want to look up the passages for discussion.  Some events require a bit of reading - say a chapter or so, while other passages are quite short.

To use this resource simply download and print out the sheets.  (We recommend using heavier bond paper for the lines and regular paper for the actual pieces.)  As you read and discuss the individual stories from the Knecht book or the scripture suggestions on the timeline pieces, affix the timeline piece to the purple lines.  In general, there will be three pieces per line and 28 in total.  Feel free to modify as needed.  Perhaps you want to join the lines to make them six pieces wide or simply glue just the pieces into a history notebook - that is just fine too.  Flexibility is one of the most beautiful things about homeschooling.

Our smaller timelines are not overwhelming and are perfect for those of us who are short on space, live in an apartment or simply want to focus on one theme at a time.  Thinking about where you may want to put this timeline?  You may want to affix your timeline to any of a number of areas in your home:

A kitchen wall - great conversation spark for supper or tea time
The wall in your homeschooling area - great reference tool
Your child's bedroom wall or door - decorate with your faith
The inside of the bathroom door - for your captive audience
A large piece of poster board - for a more portable timeline.

Go to our Little Timeline of the Old Testament page now.
See all of our Timeline collections now.

As with the other timelines, we also have accompanying notebook pages to go with each of the 28 stories.  They are in our traditional That Resource Site style of four line spacing options to meet the needs of every aged learner as well as options to draw your own picture, draw the scene, or use the picture provided.  Each set is twelve pages.

 

We hope that many find these resources very helpful.  We hope to offer a few more resources to accompany these Bible stories if time allows.

Blessings,
That Resource Team

F3 Resources to Help Study About the Gospel and the Evangelists

Encourage learners to Explore the Gospels

Lent and Easter provide us with a great opportunity to hear the Gospel from more than one Evangelist.  We know that the word gospel means "good news" while evangelist means "teller of the good news - our Saviour has come".  The Evangelists - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - each have a unique way of writing about the life of our Lord in the books of the New Testament called the Gospels. 

St. John wrote as a loving friend of Jesus; his gospel is often referred to as the Gospel of Love. 

St. Matthew writes as a apostle or eyewitness and includes more of Jesus' teachings on the heavenly kingdom than any of the other writers.  For example, he writes a complete account of the Sermon on the Mount. 

St. Luke gives a great detailed account as one would expect from a doctor.  Although He did not know or travel with the Master, he interviewed many people who did including the Blessed Virgin Mary.  A co-worker with St. Paul, and author of the book the Acts of the Apostles, he compiled all of the interviews he took about the life and times of our Lord Jesus into one very detailed account.  His writings were meant for everyone who loves God.

St. Mark wrote his gospel account in the words of St. Peter.  It is Peter's eyewitness account of Jesus' ministry, life, death and Resurrection. 

Each cover and include many of the same facts, but sometime there are unique differences that set them apart for the reader.  One easy example of this can be seen in when the author's introduce our Lord.  Matthew begins at the genealogy of Christ, while Mark begins with John the Baptist crying out in the wilderness. St. John's Gospel was the last to be written of the four and included many details left out by the other three writers. 

To help learners (both young and old) more easily understand the Bible, we created a few notebooking sheets and F3 (flip, flap and fold) pieces that can be used to learn about the evangelists, the Gospels and then individual accounts in the Bible. 

The notebooking sheets give an opportunity to comparatively write out the details of a specific event as it occurs in each gospel.  We have created two sheets.  One could write or draw details.  These can be useful for grades 4+.

The F3 pieces provided are patterned after the inquisitive KWL style organize(know, want to know, have learned).  In this set you will find sets featuring:  the Gospels, The Evangelists, St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke and St. John.  There is opportunity for drawing as well as writing.  This F3 project resource can be completed and mounted on card stock and then bound together using a spine of some sort, brads, rings or any other way that you may prefer. 

Click HERE to download this packet of resources.

Click HERE to see all of our F3 Resources.

Blessings,

Kalei

Resources to Help Teach About the Annunciation

Fun resources help children of all ages celebrate the most beautiful event of the Annunciation.

On Friday, we will celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation.  In honour of this very special and historical event, many of us will read the Gospel, pray the Hail Mary prayer or even the rosary.  As we reflect on the Virgin's Mary answer to the call of our Lord for obedience, trust, devotion and love, let us too, be willing to say a hope filled, YES, to our call of service to God, our children, and one another.

We have just uploaded a new page to the main resource site that celebrates the Mystery of the Annunciation with lots of resources that you may find helpful to use this week or any week in your little homeschool, Bible study or CCD class. 

Our resource list includes mini-books, notebooking sheets, games, puzzles, learning cards, trading cards and more.  Here are just a few samples. 

We hope you find something useful and enjoyable to help bring understanding of the Annunciation to the hearts and minds of your little learners.

Click HERE to visit our new page - Free Resources to Help Children Learn About the Annunciation.

If you can think of someone else who might be able to benefit from our FREE resources - a fellow homeschooler, a catechist from your parish, or even a friend who is just beginning to ponder homeschooling their children - why not send them on over to see how easy it is to let God permeate our teaching and lessons. :)

Blessings,

Kalei - That Resource Team

New Greek Worksheet and More Year Planner Pages featuring Monthly Menus, Bible study, Feast Days, Lists, Learning Needs and so Much More

More printables to help your homeschool stay organized all year long, plus a Greek goodie too.

If you haven't seen the journal planner that Michelle from Thinking Love, No Twaddle has been creating so lovingly for us all, you should really take a peek.  She has thought of just about everything that you could need.  She has just taken us into the fall as the September journal planner sheets are now available. 

I love that each is uniquely coloured, cheerful and inviting to use.  She has made a reminder calendar for Feast days as well as accompanying Bible study pages.  Grocery shopping pages, lists for reminders, budgeting sheets and so much more.  Plus, I just love the little squirrels and autumn themed graphics.  What an inspiration to get going to plan the new year out.  Here are just a few sample shots of September's sheets:





Click HERE to see Michelle's Page and scroll down to see all of the monthly sets she has graciously shared.

As an extra goodie today, Michelle has also sent along a new little Greek Worksheet for you too.  It is a review sheet for those using the free online resources at Kids' Greek.  This Greek worksheet features the proper use of the word "hello".  You will also find this sheet on her page as the latest addition to her Greek Worksheets.

Blessings,

Kalei - That Resource Team

Bible and Prayer Study Notebooking Sheets for January

Simple notebooking sheets allow children the freedom to decide what are the most important details of their learning.

As we continue to prepare for a new year of learning, we share another resource from Michelle over at  Thinking Love, No Twaddle for your January learning. Today's download is a four page set of Prayer and Bible Study sheets.  Each sheet is different and features a different focus including the epiphany, colored art pieces featuring people in prayer, a January page with three spaces, and a page featuring two different saints.  Use one or all of the sheets from the set - whatever works for your family.

Thanks to Michelle for her time, talents and energy.  You are in our prayers. :)

Click Here to download today's prayer and Bible study sheets.

Blessings,

That Resource Team

Our Lady of Sorrows F3 Piece

Introduce your children to the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, straight from scripture!!

September 15th is the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.  Today we offer an F3 Piece on the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  This activity is a wonderful go-along activity for our Little Lesson on Our Lady of Sorrows by Michelle Scott or any Faith notebooking project, CCD class or feast day celebration.  In order to complete this Flip, Flap, & Fold  Piece, children will need to prepare the pieces, look up some scripture passages and match religious images to the passages and titles.  It is easy to complete and requires scissors, glue, our file, and a Bible.  Older learners could complete this project on their own taking about 30 minutes or so, but it is a nice family activity as well.  This really is a great way to practice using the using the Bible while finding concrete examples of our Catholic Tradition in our Lord's word.

Here's what to do:  First cut out all the pieces on the lines as directed in the instructions on each sheet.

Next look up the scripture passages in the Bible.  Match the scripture pieces to the appropriate pictures and glue them onto the proper numbered sorrow piece in their designated spot.

Create the pocket for the completed pieces by folding as indicated on the pocket sheet.  Be careful to fold the flaps all in the same direction and glue only where indicated.

Finish off F3Piece by assembling and gluing piece into folder, notebook, project, or onto cardstock. 

We hope this helps to bring some fun into your day while teaching about some of the most core beliefs and traditions of our rich Catholic Faith.

Click Here to download this F3 Piece Devoted to The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Blessings,

That Resource Team

Little Litugical Year For September - St. Jerome

Worksheet Pack to Teach About the Transcriber of the Bible, St. Jerome

September is a great month to get children inspired and excited about reading the Bible.  St. Jerome's feast day is the 30th of September.  He was an amazing hardworking saint credited with painstakingly copying God's word from many different languages into the common or Vulgate Latin version of the Bible.  Many people thought him to be quite grumpy but that thought never even entered my mind.  If you have ever done graduate work, you know about the tediousness and accuracy that is required in a thesis or dissertation.  Now imagine doing work a hundred times more meaningful, under pure obedience, on a document that would become THE most important book in history!  Yikes!!!  I'd be grumpy too - oh, the sheer pressure of it all.  Yet, St. Jerome did an excellent job.  So much so that he became a Doctor of the Catholic Church.

Today we offer a neat 3 page resource pack about St. Jerome created by Michelle Scott over at Thinking Love, No Twaddle.  This is a set includes great info about this saint, a chance to practice using the Bible while a little Latin is learned as well.  There is even copywork included.  Concise, accurate and bright, this is a great way to introduce the Bible to children through the eyes of St. Jerome.

Click Here to download this Little Liturgical Lesson on St. Jerome.

Don't forget to mark the 30th of September on your Calendar and experience the efforts of St. Jerome by reading the Bible that day.

Blessings,

Kalei - That Resource Team

More add-ons for Our Virtue Lesson on Modesty and others

More goodies to bring Our Virtue Lessons to life

We are still updating and adding NEW resources to our current selection of Our Virtue Lessons.  Today we offer a few new things which we are making available to all of our current and future lessons very shortly.  Actually many lessons have been partially updated already. :)  Here are the new additions.

We now offer a Virtue Themed Reading Log Bookmark to help children track their reading of books related to the current virtue.  Children write in the date, title, and author of their current reads and use the bookmark to keep their reading spot warm and cozy.  Each bookmark is unique to the virtue they represent.  Simply print out, cut, fold and glue.  These go very well with our reading suggestions for each virtue.

The next goodie is a F3 piece for Bible scripture work in the form of a 4 tabbed booklet that is perfect for scripture based copywork or narration.  These resources are also virtue specific and a neat little accompaniment for this study.  These little pieces can be stapled or laid out (as at left) for lift able flaps.  The graphics help remind children of different ways to practice the virtue.  Each of Our Virtue Lessons provides scripture suggestions for children of varying ages.  These are perfect as a stand alone booklet or glued onto cardstock, into a notebook or folder.


The last thing we have just begun adding to our virtues is an Achievement Certificate.  Currently only Modesty has it, but the rest are on the way shortly.  We thought it would be a nice way to finish off each lesson undertaken with these bright colourful, fun half-sheet certificates.  They are available in one or two per sheet.

Many of our lessons already have bookmarks, F3 Pieces or other add-ons.  You will find them at the bottom of the lesson pages.  Please visit us again very soon or subscribe to our feed to find out when all of the lessons have been updated.  We hope that these little additions help to make your lessons more engaging, fun, and faith-filled.

Click Here to visit Our Virtue Lesson on Modesty.

Blessings,

That Resource Team

Life of Christ Notebooking Sheets Pt.II - All Sets Available in English and in Spanish!!

All the Life of Jesus Christ Timeline notebooking sheets are up and ready to go in both English and Spanish!

By the grace of God, I had a patch of time last evening to work a bit on more notebooking sheets to go with the Life of Jesus Christ Timeline.  My youngest changed her mind an decided to use the notebooking sheets instead requesting the mini-books so that gave me a bit more work time.  Perhaps at some point I will get to them.  Our house rule is generally that we make resources for our own needs and then share them with others.  Occasionally someone will request something and we try to help out if we can.  Thus was the case with the Spanish resources.  Xhonane over at Familia Catolica  offered to translate the resources and then I reworked them.  Thus we now have the timeline, timeline pieces and now notebooking sheets to go along with the Life of Jesus Christ Timeline in both English and Spanish.  Thanks, Xhonane.  You will find the Spanish links in red.

Our ministry is about helping homeschooling families worldwide teach about the Catholic faith in a direct answer to the late Pope John Paul II's call for parents to be the first teachers of their children.  As we are just a homeschooling family ourselves running our website in our spare time and out of our own pocket, we appreciate the prayers, positive feedback, and donations of any kind that people share with us. 

If you find that you like our resources or find them useful, why not help other homeschoolers find them as well?  It's easy to help us spread the word:  share us on listservs, blogs, Facebook or Twitter.  Consider adding one of our website buttons or blog buttons to your site.  Won't you please help us get the word out?  :)


Click Here to visit our Bible Notebooking Page.


Blessings,


Kalei - That Resource Team

Life of Jesus Christ Notebooking Sheets - Part I.

Notebooking Sheets to Go along with the Life of Jesus Christ Timeline

Everyone in our house was excited about the Life of Jesus Time Line.  After we assembled and started using our timeline, We began reading and narrating the Knecht book at the breakfast table for the sake our littlest.  Our oldest needed more meat in the readings and so we began finding the passages in the Douay Rheims, which is our favourite version of the Bible - Yeah, St. Jerome!!  This gave way in a very natural progression to the question, "Mom, do we have any notebooking sheets to go with this?" Needless to say, we didn't have any, but we do now. :)

You can find now find notebooking sets that go with the Life of Jesus Christ Timeline project.  Each set is now offered as just one file with 12 page options per file to accommodate writers from K-12.  This also keeps the web page cleaner, as long as the files are not too big to download at once.  (Big files strain our bandwidth and yours too.)   We have almost half of them done right now in English (thus Part I. in the post title).  We are still working on the rest of the set but we thought we had better post what we have so far so that folks could get started.  There are a few extra event sheets on the web page that are not in the timeline project itself because we had already used them previously for our studies.  You will find that the pictures on the notebooking sets match the timeline pictures to help you keep organized. 

We hope to have the rest of the sets done over the next week.  We are planning to try and make a Spanish counterpart at some point as well but I know I won't be able to get to that right away yet. 

BTW - I don't need to tell you that the youngest asked me after seeing the notebooking sheets, "Mom, do you have My Mini-books too?"  Yikes!!  So I guess those will also be on the way as well shortly.

Please continue to pray for us in our ministry efforts to serve more families worldwide.

Click Here to visit our Bible Notebooking pages


Blessings,

That Resource Team

Life of Christ Timeline for Children

**Update** See our revised edition of our Life of Christ Timeline as well as our brand new

Life of Christ Timeline for Preschoolers. Available on our Resource DVD.

 Timeline on the Life of our Lord, Jesus helps learners get to know our Saviour

As we alluded to the other day, we have finished a project that has been on my mind for over a year now.  This special resource is perfect for any Catholic learner, young or old and is the perfect compliment to New Testament Bible study or Catechism or CCD classes.  It is a simple hands-on pictorial timeline for children.  Created as a go-along resource to Child's Bible History by Rev. F.J.Knecht, D.D. (TAN Books), this new resource has been a big hit with our children.  Although you don't need to use the book to appreciate this resource, it really is such a nice concise read with very easy narration points.  There are 39 different events listed.

Assembly of this timeline is easy.  Print out all files using standard size 8.5"x11" paper.  You can use either heavy bond or regular bond paper.  Cut out timeline pieces, arrange as given in the instruction sheet.  Cut apart timeline cards.  Affix three to a line in the order that they occurred.  A space has been left at the bottom of each of the cards to write in a Bible passage from the Gospels.  This is a perfect bible activity for any aged learner.  Our first grader is very proficient in finding passages in the Bible and I teach this skill in my CCD class for Gr.2+ Sacramental prep.

Sample timeline cards

Many times children or even those new to the faith find it hard to piece together all of the events of our Lord's life.  I wanted a way to help them work through the Bible, learn about Jesus, as well as follow the Mass liturgies in a fun and hands-on way.  I think that this resource will definitely help.

I hope you find this resource helpful in your home or CCD class. :)

View more and download The Life of Christ Timeline


Blessings,


Kalei - That Resource Team

June 21 - New Testament Bible Learning Cards

New Testament narration learning cards to help solidify the Bible in their hearts.

Today's resource offering is the New Testament sets of Bible Learning Cards.  These sets are similar to their Old Testament counterparts in that they can help children (and adults too) break open the Word of God into little portions that are not so overwhelming for young learners.

Each card includes the name of the book on the front of the card and on the back there is a line for the author and also one for when it was written.  Additional lines are provided for any number of uses, the least of which is simple narration.  These cards are great for Classical Learners as well as Charlotte Mason style learners.

Simply print out, fill out, fold, and glue.  Laminate for stability and longevity.

Here are some uses for these NT cards based on the Catholic Bible:

• Narrate the overall theme of the book.
• Narrate the specific meaning of favourite or selected passages.
• Write a passage they wish to use for reference or commit to memory.
• Write out events of the book in a bulleted style.
• Note the miracles that Jesus performed.
• Note the parables that Jesus used to teach.
• List new words or terms to learn.
• Note references to the Rosary as they occur in the books like the Gospels or Revelation.
• Write the names of people who present themselves in the specific NT book.
• Write out the names of places mentioned in the book - these could be used for mapping practice later on.

Click Here to download NT Bible Learning Cards set 1 (Matthew - Ephesians)
Click Here to download NT Bible Learning Cards set 2 (Philippians - James)
Click Here to download NT Bible Learning Cards set 3 (1 Peter - Revelation)

Let the Word of God be known and written on our hearts.

Blessings,

That Resource Team

June 19 - OT Bible Learning Cards for Narration and Other Fun

Help learners of all ages delve deeper in the Old Testament.

One of our children requested that we create today's resources.  Card learning is often a favourite in our homeschool.  These Charlotte Mason style narration cards are the perfect little tool to help readers remember what they read and learned from scripture which helps them come to better understand God's word.

Each card includes the name of the book on the from of the card and on the back there is a line for the author and also one for when it was written.  Additional lines are provided for any number of uses the least of which is simple narration.

We know that each family has different learning needs and we don't like to leave people without references on how to use our resources, so here are some ideas and possible uses for these card sets:

• Narrate the overall theme on the book.
• Narrate the specific meaning of passages.
• Write a passage they wish to use for reference or commit to memory.
• Write out events of the book in a bulleted style.
• Write the names of people who present themselves in the specific OT book.
• Write out the themes of psalms or individual proverbs.
• Write out the names of places mentioned in the book - these could be used for mapping practice later on.

We hope to post cards for the books of the New Testament and more ideas on how to use them in the next day or so.  We hope you find these cards useful and fun.

Click Here to download OT Bible Learning Cards set 1 (Genesis -2 Samuel)
Click Here to download OT Bible Learning Cards set 2 (1 Kings - Job)
Click Here to download OT Bible Learning Cards set 3 (Psalms - Baruch)
Click Here to download OT Bible Learning Cards set 4 (Ezekiel - Micah)
Click Here to download OT Bible Learning Cards set 5 (Nahum-Malachi)

Blessings,

That Resource Team

June 10 - Help Children Find Bible Passages

Little F3 Piece to help children build confidence in reading the Bible

Finding passages in the Bible can be a little daunting for new readers, young readers, and those new to the faith.  We found that to be the case in our CCD class this past year and so we came up with a fun little F3 Piece to meet this challenge.

Simply cut out the pieces, punch out the little circles, lay in order and attach a brad.  The first page is an explanation on how to read Bible passage reference numerals.  The next page asks learners to find passages to well known Bible events.  If they follow the numbers correctly, they should end up at the specified event.  I usually order the page pieces chronologically as the events took place.

Are you asking yourself what are F3 Pieces? :)  They are our answer to lapbooking.  Quite frankly, we can never finish a lapbook because of the sheer volume of things to do to complete the tasks as suggested or set out by the author.  Now I know that you can make adjustments, but it was all too much for us accomplish with multi-aged learners - some with unique needs.  We wanted the fun of cutting and playing with paper without the constraints.  Voila - little pieces that you Flip, Flop and Fold (F3) that could be added to other projects already on the go.  All the fun of lapbooking in self-contained mini-projects that you can glue into notebooks, use as a stand alone resource, or incorporate into worksheets.  Now that's different, stress-free, and very do-able.

Look for more F3 pieces to come.

Click Here to download the F3 Piece - Finding Bible Passages

Blessings,

That Resource Team

June 9 - Learning Cards for the 7 Days of Creation and the Garden of Eden

New Learning Cards to Learn or Narrate About the 7 Days of Creation

As part of our science lesson this week, the children learned about creation vs. evolution.  These cards were created to help the kids recall the days of creation in a narrative style.  Each card provides a cute clip art reminder of the events on one side and a space for the Genesis passage numerals and narration.  Children could do a number of things on the lines.  Here are just a few suggestions:

• Copy the passage or a portion of the passage directly from the Bible
• Narrate what they remember from the passage for the specified day
• Copy one sentence from the passage beautifully
• Find and list all of the nouns from each passage
• Find and list all of the adjectives from each passage
• Select a phrase to explain - Made in Our Image or According to its kind for example
• List favourite words from the passage
• List new words from the passage - expanse, firmament, herb etc.

The lines are fairly close together so don't be afraid to let younger children skip lines to provide more writing space.  These cards are always a big hit because they are not intimidating like a large full page of binder paper could be.  These cards are perfect for home Bible study or CCD classes.

Click Here to download our 7 Days of Creation Learning Card Set.

Tomorrow we will have a tangible resource to help young learners use the Bible properly.  It is great as a stand alone piece or used in a Bible lapbook unit study.  We have used them successfully in our CCD class.

Blessings,

That Resource Team