NACHE Links

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Links You Should Know

TORCH is an association of lay faithful established to promote homeschooling among Catholic families and to support those families who are engaged in providing their children's primary education at home.

Emmanuel Books is a Catholic homeschooling family run business. They carry an extensive array of books for grades K-12 in all subjects that is especially strong in Religion, History, literature and Language Arts. They specialize in many items of interest to those using a classical approach, particularly following Laura Berquist's "Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum" and including her Syllabi.

Teaching Catholic Kids is an online resource for teachers, catechists, and parents to help children grow in our Catholic Faith! This site is updated monthly with all new free downloads of activities and helps.

Our Sunday Visitor is a site that contains a growing number of resources from the newspaper, magazines, and books from Our Sunday Visitor.

St. Paul's Publishing is Dr. Leek's great web site, mentioned in the Michaelmas 1999 issue, with monthly study ideas, reading lists, poems, etc., taken from old issues of St. Paul’s Family Magazine.

By Way of the Family is a curricula supplier for Catholic homeschoolers specializing in discounted prices to help make homeschooling more affordable. By Way of the Family carries carefully selected titles from over 150 publishers and is adding titles weekly. Every Catholic homeschooler on a budget should know about By Way of the Family. Print catalogs are also available by emailing chelsea@bywayofthefamily.com or phoning 1-800-588-2589.

Catholic Scholars Online This site has many articles and resources on Catholic homeschooling. With links to curriculum providers: Mother of Divine Grace, Kolbe Academy, Seton Curriculum, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady of Victory School, Regina Coeli Academy, and St Thomas Aquinas. There are also links on classical education. Check out the free stuff link, an online guide to free resources.

Favorite Catholic Homeschool Resources: This site is so rich in resources it's hard to know where to begin. Some highlights include curriculum reviews written by homeschooling moms, a "red flag" list of resources that may not be appropriate for use by Catholics or not faithful to Catholic teachings, and LOTS of links to other great homeschooling sites.

Aquinas Homeschool Books is a virtual bookstore started by Carla Hansen to fulfill a need for an online catalog bookstore where homeschooling families can find a wide variety of educational resources that are in accord with Catholic doctrine.

Catholic Exchange is endeavoring to evangelize the world via the Internet with the Good News of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church in obedience to Pope John Paul II's call for a "Springtime of World Evangelization." This is in response to the need for greater catechesis and revival of the lay faithful in a time when materialism and relativism are marginalizing Biblical principles as the basis on which people make moral choices.

Ascension Press, founded in 1998 by Matthew Pinto, is a Catholic publisher whose first four titles have become Catholic best-sellers. Ascension’s titles include Did Adam to Eve Have Belly Buttons?, The Rapture Trap, Friendly Defenders Catholic Flash Cards, and My Life on the Rock, the conversion story of EWTN host Jeff Cavins. Its newest book, Amazing Grace: For Those Who Suffer, will be released in September, 2002. Administrative offices are based in West Chester, PA. Sales office is based in Necedah, WI and can be reached at 800-376-0520 or www.AscensionPress.com.

The Friendly Defenders Catholic Flash Cards There's no greater gift a parent or teacher can give to a Catholic child than a firm grounding in the faith. When strengthened by faith, a child can truly soar.

Yet, a good knowledge of (and love for) the Catholic faith won't come by accident. This knowledge needs to be pursued, nurtured, and put into practice.

The Friendly Defenders Catholic Flash Cards are designed to help you "train up your children" so that they will never stray from God's love and from the Catholic Church our Lord Jesus established. The 50 cards within feature common questions people have about the Catholic faith as well as short, easy to understand answers. The cards help young people to "be always ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us." (1 Peter 3:15)

Teachnet.com: A very useful teachers site. Secular. A resource for elementary teachers with lots of stuff like lesson plans and other tools for teaching.

Homeschool Arts: This site is like an art textbook. Great art lessons to use for homeschool!

Catholic Culture, formally PetersNet, help guides Catholics through the conflicting claims about the Faith on the Internet and to provide a reliable source for Church documents and Catholic analysis. You will find resources to help live the liturgical year in the home—that is, to sustain and develop the culture of the domestic Church.

Catholicity, a really great Catholic website started by Bud Macfarlane, Jr. Everything in CatholiCity is always free, all the time, to everyone.

Familink is an Internet Service Provider that provides filtering of unwanted sites. Most Internet filters are installed on the users computer. FamiLink places the filter on its server. That means, before you even get on the Internet, FamiLink has already found and eliminated web sites and pages that you obviously don't want to see.

Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. What the Church teaches and has taught; what she has done and is still doing for the highest welfare of mankind; her methods, past and present; her struggles, her triumphs, and the achievements of her members, not only for her own immediate benefit, but for the broadening and deepening of all true science, literature and art

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Sonya Romens Wrote the article in the Lent 2000 CHE newsletter, My Favorite Catholic Homeschool Links, that contributed to many of the links on this page. She is a Homeschooling mother of seven, lives in Amery, WI. Visit their website at RCHistory.com