It has been so long since we last posted or shared anything. But, we're happy to announce that we have just made our downloadable Advent Activities available once again.

These sweet activities are a fun and educational means to keep our children focused on preparing their hearts for the Christ Child.

There are five different levels: pictures, words, catechism questions (easier/more difficult), and Bible Quotes, and three different options for each level.

Plus, there are three Combos that contain one of each level.

Each activity comes with an instruction sheet that contains the Christmas Novena Prayer, lyrics to an Advent hymn, and a little thought or assignment for each day. For example: "St. John the Baptist said to make straight the way of the Lord. Today put things in their place in your room and in the kitchen. Repeat to yourself St. John's words: 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord.'"
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We pray that these little activities help draw your children's hearts closer and closer the Christ Child.

Click on the button below to be taken to the Advent Activities page.

Click here to read a review.

In honour of our namesake, St. Rita of Cascia, on her feast day, we are giving away 2 copies of The Complete Catholic Homeschool Planners. Chances for entering end on Wednesday, May 28.




There are 3 options of entering for you to win:


1) Tweet a message.

2) Like us on Facebook.

3) Leave a comment on our blog.

Click on the image to learn more about our planner as well as see images of the beautifully designed pages.

God bless you all!

      The Lighted Lanterns Level B series of books are now available as downloads! Click on the image to be taken to our downloads section.



Only 1 more day left for our pre-order special of the Level B hard-copy books!

And one more thing -- we wanted to give everyone a heads up that we are both expecting to have our babies within a month's time, so, shipping times may not be as speedy once we are very busy giving attention to the new additions to our families. Thank you for understanding and God Bless!

Lighted Lanterns Pre-Level is a stepping stone to the process
of copywork, dictation, and narration.


With this level, we assume the student has some familiarity with beginning reading and writing.  This is not intended to be a course to learn how to form letters (*although it could be used that way*)
but a review and expansion of letters learned. 


*We at Cascia Books encourage you to tailor your curriculum to fit you and your students as much as you need to for maximum benefit!


Short writing assignments, poems, rhymes, riddles, jokes, short stories and lines for narrations round out the program and help prepare the student for Lighted Lanterns Level A. 


Pre-Level consists of 26 lessons, one lesson for each letter of the alphabet, and extra writing practice pages in the back of the book. 

Click on the image to learn more!

The download version* is available right now for $27.99. The spiral-bound version* is available for pre-order for a very limited time for $24.99. Retail is $29.99.

*Manuscript version only

Cursive edition to be available soon.

    It is amazing how a project grows and evolves.  A reader was not on the radar when Lighted Lanterns originated.  It wasn’t until we were using Level A with our own children that we decided a companion reader would be quite handy. 

      Some of the stories used for copywork were too long to reprint in such a project.  In those cases, we used shorter stories on the same topic.  Add a few more stories and poems and a reader is born. 

     At this point, the reader is only available in a pdf download format.  We plan on printing hard copies in the future.  Exactly when will in part be determined by how much interest there is in a hard copy vs. the download, so please let us know if you would rather purchase a hard copy!
   
     For more info, visit the Lighted Lanterns Level A page on the website, the reader is at the bottom of the page.  

Thanks for visiting!

1st Draw:  November 12, 2012   5-in-1 Advent Activity
CONGRATULATIONS to Dessi Jackson!

2nd Draw:  November 19, 2012   The Homeschool Journal
CONGRATULATIONS to Amanda Vines!

3rd Draw:  November 26, 2012   The Complete Catholic Homeschool Planner
CONGRATULATIONS to Laraine!

4th Draw:  December 3,  2012   The Complete Homeschool Planner
CONGRATULATIONS to Clare Kosel!

5th Draw:  December 10, 2012  Design-a-planner CD-rom
CONGRATULATIONS to Patricia Bevill!

Thank you for visiting Cascia Books, good luck and God Bless!