Catholic Home Schoolers - what do you use for religion?

[frugalmama]

Trying to find something better than we're using, which is Image of God K as per CHC's lesson plans that we're using. I don't like Image of God - it is really fluffy and doesn't teach much IMO. I'd like something meatier that still is light enough for a K student. Next year we'll be using Faith and Life 1 which I like, but we need something to finish this year with. Right now we're filling in with Leading The Little Ones to Mary, but I'd like something that touches on the Mass and Sacraments as well as a few saints.

Any Ideas?

[Nitenites]

We use Faith & Life for the "core" of our religion curriculum, but supplement with saint stories and St. Joseph's Baltimore Catechism. We also work on memorization (prayers, mysteries of the rosary, sacraments, Ten Commandments, etc.) So a typical week would look like this:

Monday - read (together) chapter in F&L

Tuesday - do workbook page of choice about chapter

Wednesday - play memory game with mysteries of rosary (we use these: http://www.chcweb.com/catalog/MysteriesoftheRosaryPrints/product_info.html)

Thursday - read a story about a saint & do a coloring page, make a poster, or a "comic book page" about the saint's life and virtues

Friday - a page or lesson from the Baltimore Cat

On feast days or HDOs we do a craft or activity especially related to the day. (Like on the kid's patron saint feast days, I try to tie in the day to the saint, and make the day special to that child.) 

Have you seen the blog Catholic Icing? It has lots of ideas of how to celebrate holy days and liturgical seasons. 

[elus0814]

We have the Seton book 'Kindergarten Catechism' which is mostly prayers and basic things. Now with one in 1st and one preschool I just wing it. We practice prayers, talk about mass, do simple latin (my dad teaches latin), talk about holidays while doing crafts. 

I've been looking at the f&l series but haven't bought it yet.

[luv-my-boys]

we have seton's religion books and I have been pleased with their content.  Ours do touch on the mass and sacraments and I like how the wording is kid friendly.  My only complaint is their construction, not sure if it was the particular books I bought or that is their normal construction but my workbooks literally fell apart from the binding as soon as I got them out of the box before my kids even handled them.  I ended up having to remove all the pages and putting them into plastic sleeves as I wanted to protect the pages for use with mulitple children. 

[elus0814]

That's interesting, we have a couple dozen Seton workbooks and some are on their second child and still look great - not new, but in better shape than most of our other books.

[octobermom]

 The Baltimore Catechism we also use 100 activities for Catholic kids and the magificikids to go over what will be comming up in the next weeks Church readings ect...

Deanna

[ledzepplon]

We use the St. Joseph's Baltimore Cathechism, Faith and Life series, and we read lots of books about the lives of the saints. We also do a co-op catechism class weekly.

[crunchy_mama]

We are doing Faith and Life 1.  Once Upon a Time with Saints, The Children's Bible by Fr. Lovasik, just bought the Baltimore Catechism but not using it yet. I was looking at the MagnifiKids but I think I will wait until he is a bit older for that.