Updated for 2024 - Mary Ellen Barrett shares 200 ideas, crafts, and activities for your Advent calendar with books and activities for saint and feast days!
Read More »We Finish Our Kindergarten Lessons So Quickly – What Now?
Seton Director Dr. Mary Kay Clark has tips on what school work must be turned in and offers an answer about kindergarten studies that may surprise you.
Read More »Preparing for Advent – One Week at a Time – Week Four
A collection of timely crafts, books, and activities for Advent, in weekly snippets, can help families welcome the Christ Child into their hearts and homes.
Read More »Preparing for Advent – One Week at a Time – Week Two
A collection of timely crafts, books, and activities for Advent, in weekly snippets, can help families welcome the Christ Child into their hearts and homes.
Read More »Before You Open Your Boxes
John Clark has two thoughts for you before, or even after, you open your boxes of homeschooling books. They might just change the way you start your day.
Read More »Why Good Stories Make it Easy to Teach Moral Lessons
Teaching the difference between right and wrong is not always easy but stories impart values and teach moral lessons, whether in fairy tales or real life.
Read More »The Secret to Getting Organized In the School Room
The secret to getting organized is to carve out an hour every week and treat it as sacrosanct to keep up with grading, planning, and tidying the shelves.
Read More »Booking It! Come Aboard the 2018 Seton Summer Reading Club
Whether from the comfort of a backyard hammock or a sofa in the den, summer’s the perfect time to grab some books and set out on a reading adventure. Jeff Minick shares the details on the books suggested for the Seton Summer Reading Club and how to join.
Read More »Read-Aloud Books – Creating a Legacy of Loving to Learn
Mary Ellen Barrett on instilling a joy of learning in our children and why Seton Home Study School is adding more Read-Aloud books to the Pre-K curriculum.
Read More »Booked For The Season – The Seton Summer Reading Club
Seton provides the framework of the reading club and the incentives, but it is the parents who help their students select the books and guide the reading.
Read More »The Necessity of Beauty to Remind Us of God’s Presence
Cheryl Hernández, homeschooling mom of 9, shows us how beauty and the choices we make in what our children see and hear can bring our family closer to God.
Read More »Teaching Self-Control to Young Children – Part 1: Boundaries
Cheryl Hernández, a homeschool mom of 9, gives tips on how to teach the virtue of self-control to young children. Part 1 of this series explores boundaries.
Read More »7 Christmas Gift Lists to Enrich Your Homeschool Experience
It's the time of year when parents are making their lists and checking them twice. Jennifer Elia presents some gift ideas that will keep giving all year.
Read More »Discover the Wonder of Reading Aloud as a Family
Graces received by reading aloud with your family? Amanda Evinger, Mom of three, on special blessings you'll discover with this wholesome family activity.
Read More »How Seton’s Summer Reading Club Motivated Young Readers
With 500 participants, Seton's Summer Reading Club was successful but we would like to make it even better next year. Would you help by adding your ideas?
Read More »Homeschooling Isn’t Always Easy, But It’s Worth It!
Amy Pawlusiak discusses common misconceptions about daily life as a homeschooling family and why, despite challenges, this life is better than most imagine.
Read More »Thinking About Homeschooling? You’ll Want to Read This First
Homeschooling veteran Patricia Purcell offers potential homeschoolers a realistic idea of what they can expect (and why it's still worth the journey).
Read More »10 Money Saving Tips on Curriculum for Homeschoolers
Designing and purchasing a curriculum doesn’t have to be expensive. Amanda Evinger shares her secrets for successful homeschooling on a tight budget!
Read More »What is Amazon.com’s Bestselling Book of All Time?
Modernity has quietly abandoned the Western Canon, though it’s easier than ever to access these great books. John Clark proposes a Catholic family response.
Read More »Can You Recommend Some Appealing Children’s Literature?
Want children's literature to compete with the computer? Mary Kay Clark says look for adventure fiction, biographies of adventurers and even science books.
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