Showing posts with label Level 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Level 2. Show all posts
Monday, October 3, 2022

A Chapter Book on Sequoyah: Talking Leaves

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Talking Leaves by Joseph Bruchac I was chatting in one of my Facebook groups about how much I love James Rumford's picture book Sequoya...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Truth for a Modern World: Lights in a Dark Town

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Lights in a Dark Town: A Story about John Henry Newman by Meriol Trevor This is a delightful novel of mid-1800s Birmingham, England, where E...
Friday, July 1, 2022

Playing at Math: Multiplication and Fractions

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Multiplication and Fractions: Math Games for Tough Topics (Math You Can Play) by Denise Gaskins I have to interrupt my little written narrat...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

All the Angel Stories: A Book of Angels

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A Book of Angels by Marigold Hunt I originally bought this book when the advisory board for Mater Amabilis was considering it as an in-prin...
Friday, June 11, 2021

A Living Catechism: St. Patrick's Summer

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St. Patrick's Summer: A Children's Adventure Catechism   by Marigold Hunt I bought this book years ago to read aloud to the kids, bu...
Monday, April 12, 2021

A Maasai Shares his People: Facing the Lion

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Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton with Herman Viola This fascinating little book was wri...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

An Illustrated History of the Pilgrims: The Mayflower

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The Mayflower: The Perilous Voyage that Changed the World by Libby Romero illustrated by Olga Baumert This is a lovely new book on the Pilgr...
Monday, August 17, 2020

A Study of Virtues: How to Be a Hero

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How to be a Hero: Train with the Saints by Julia Harrell I bought this book as a baptismal anniversary gift. It's a book in three parts,...
Monday, June 15, 2020

American Geography in Level 2 using the Geography Coloring Book

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Last week I shared a set of lesson plans incorporating The Geography Coloring Book  with the Mater Amabilis™ geography books in Levels 1A, 2...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

A Master Lesson Plan for the Geography Coloring Book with Mater Amabilis™

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As I was wrapping up our  Mater Amabilis™ Level 1A year and organizing the Level 2 plans for Second Son, my youngest, I realized that ove...
Monday, June 8, 2020

An Update to Mapping Activities for the Americas (Level 2 Year 1, Fourth Grade)

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This is a revised and expanded lesson plan for The Geography Coloring Book for the Mater Amabilis™ Level 2 Year 1 People and Places Am...

A Challenging but Worthwhile History: This Country of Ours

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This Country of Ours by H. E. Marshall This Country of Ours  is the first option on the Mater Amabilis™ Level 1B syllabus for History...
Friday, June 5, 2020

My Last Fourth Grader's People and Places Plans: Central and South America

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My youngest child, Second Son, is heading into Level 4 Year 1 (fourth grade) next year. I'm going through all our plans and deciding wha...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Egypt for Level 1 and Level 2: The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt and The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone

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The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Landmark Books) by Elizabeth Payne Though we've studied ancient Egypt before, we managed to miss t...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Mapping the World Level 2 Year 2: Africa (Fifth Grade)

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We use the Geography Coloring Book   for mapping activities in geography over the course of many years. In fifth grade, Mater Amabilis ™ L...