Great resources that follow the themes for Catholic Schools Week! This bundle includes a worksheet/activity and teacher directions for five days, one for each of the themes: Celebrating Community, Students, Nation, Vocations, and Faculty. Celebrating Vocations has two options. Ideal for junior high and high school students.
As we cover the Seven Sacraments in my 5th grade class this year, we will be using this graphic organizer to summarize the key points of what we have been learning. These notes fit the categories, CCC reference, minister, repetition, sign, and action of each Sacrament all on one page. Click here for the printable: You could use the notes in several ways with various levels of detail, but here is a (low quality) scan of my key, if it is of use to you: Another great addition to our Sheen Notebook!
Invite your students to read and reflect on the lives of the saints using The Religion Teacher's Saints Worksheet Collection.
My oldest son is getting closer and closer to Jr. High. OH MY! Does this ever give me heart palpitations. Jr. High was a rough time for m...
For the first time since Our Lady of the Holy Souls School was founded in Little Rock 83 years ago, a new school year started without Benedictine sisters on staff.
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is coming up on December 8. Immaculate Conception Coloring Pages to celebrate this feast day.
Virtue: A Habit to do the good, give the best of yourself, and be more like God in what you say and do. To tie in with our study of sainthood and the universal call to holiness, I decided to do a little more intentional instruction about the virtues. Visit here for the original graphic organizer we added to our notebooks to start things off. Next up: The Moral Virtues. I have been introducing the kids to each of the moral virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. We have been focusing on one virtue each week. I made a printable for them to add to their Sheen notebooks, which I printed half sized to better fit on a notebook page. Both full size and 2-per-page options to print can be found below. We talked about the virtue and then recorded some practical examples in the section that says "prudence in action." Mindful that growing in holiness, which we are all called to, means growing in virtue, each kid then made a goal related to that virtue to work on for the week. They wrote their goals on post-it notes and then stuck them on this poster on the door. I love this poster- It has gotten a lot of mileage. Simply a piece of posterboard divided into squares that are about 4x4" and marked with the numbers 1-30, it allows the kids to stick a 3x3" post-it note recording their thoughts or questions on a particular topic quickly. I added a page protector at the top so I could easily create a title or question for the top of the poster. This is just is latest use. We also created a class goal for the virtue, decided on by the kids, and we worked on it all week (and it continues to come up in the weeks following). For example, prudence's goal was to choose to be positive when it would be easier to be negative. Justice's goal was to include everyone in conversations and games.They are doing a great job finding the practical in something that can seem very theoretical. Later, I will post the Theological Virtue note pages, as well as classroom encouragement system that we are using to link our study of virtue with our study of the life of Fulton Sheen. Click on the pictures below for the full page printables: Click here for the half page fortitude printable. Click here for the half page justice printable. Click here for the half page prudence printable. Click here for the half page temperance printable.
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho is lesson #9 in the second quarter of our preschool Bible study. We did a lot more hand on for this lesson and the kids really enjoyed learning about Joshua! My Ark of the Covenant and the priests visual. Remember last week we learned about the 12 men that went to spy on the new land? They brought back grapes so big, they had to be carried between two men on a stick! Joshua and Caleb had faith that God would be with the people in the new land. Joshua was the new leader after Moses. Joshua sent two men to spy out Jericho. They went to Rahab’s house and stayed there. When the king’s men came looking for the spies, Rahab hid them on her roof and covered them with stalks of flax. Rahab told the two spies that she had heard about God’s power. She asked if they would save her and her family when they took over the city. They told her “If you keep our visit a secret, we will protect you.” Since she lived on the city wall, she let them down through the window. They told her to make sure everyone stayed in her house when they attacked and to leave a scarlet rope hanging from the window, so they knew which house was hers when they attacked. God told Joshua to have all the men of war march around the city 1 time a day for 6 days and do not talk. The 7 priests will carry the rams’ horns each day. BUT, on the seventh day, you will march around the city 7 times and the priests will blow the horns. When they make a long blast with the horns, all the people will shout, and the wall of the city will fall flat! They did exactly as God told them to! They marched around the city once a day for six days. Quietly. They didn’t talk at all! On the 7th day, they were up early in the morning, and they marched around the city seven times! And then, they all shouted very loud! and the city of Jericho fell down flat! Just like God said would happen! Joshua told the two spies to find Rahab and her family. The spies took Rahab and her family from Jericho to the Israelites camp and kept them safe. Joshua stayed faithful to God and God was with him. Lesson found in Joshua 6. I wanted a simple printable for this lesson, because we stacked up boxes before class. We had the students walk around 'Jericho' quietly six times (counting day 1, etc.) for each day. Then, march around the 7 times. They shouted on the seventh pass and knocked the boxes down. This mini book printable includes color and black & white. Click here to download. Click here to download the lesson. Click here to download the updated visuals. The file includes visuals for Joshua 1-6: Rahab, The Jordan Crossing and The Battle of Jericho. There are 35 visuals, so all are not shown. Click here to download the pictures to color. (These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.) Click here for the lesson, printables and more early elementary ages. More Ideas for Joshua here. Joshua Flip Book. Joshua Spell-it-Out letters.
The human board game to review for exams is a fund way to get students out of their seats and interested in preparing for their tests or just doing some review.
Our Catholic Schools Week activities are themed around the Olympics and the Saints- each class is representing a country around the world and a Saint from that country. I love a good theme, so switched up my bulletin board to feature Saints living well- playing sports and enjoying the outdoors. I plan to share their stories with my students, and will be reading some excerpts from Pope St. John Paul II's speeches to athletes. (There is a great list here, and you can check the full text on the Vatican website) I want to share with my students that we can celebrate the gift of athletics and sports– as well as challenge them to see how we can use those talents while also serving the Lord and growing in holiness. Saints included are: • Pope Saint John Paul II (hiking, skiing, camping) • Blessed Chiara Luce Badano (pictured playing in the snow, also a tennis player) • Saint John Bosco (encouraged students to play sports) • Blessed Carlo Acutis (soccer) • Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (mountain climbing, skiing) • Blessed Gianna Molla (hiking) • Blessed Benedict Daswa (played soccer) • Servant of God Michelle Duppong (grew up on a farm) • Venerable Carla Ronci (riding a Vespa) • Saint Dulce Pontes (played soccer) • Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (pictured riding a bike) • Venerable Guido Schäffer (surfing) Saints & Sports images here: Sports & Virtue Quotes from JP2 here: "Be Saints" letter outlines here: During class that week, we talked about Saints who were athletic. Each grade level chose a particular Saint, so I also specifically taught about St. Sebastian, Ven. Teresita Quevedo, and Pope St. John Paul II. This slide show includes a favorite Fr. Mike Schmitz video using some great sports analogies, a video for the three Saints chosen for our junior high classes, as well as photos of the Saints and the sports/activities they did. Click here for the presentation: Then I had the students pick one Saint they were interested in and do a little research. I included some great wisdom from JP2 to athletes on the back, hoping that they might take it home and hang it up as a reminder! Click here for a printable version of the activity: And click here for a digital version you could assign in Google Classroom, etc.: If you are looking for more bulletin board ideas, check out this post:
Here's a free youth group lesson on encouragement. Bible: 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Philippians 1:3-11. Bottom Line: We are called to encourage one another. Our words can either build up or tear each other down.
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Religious education ideas for Catholic teachers, homeschoolers, and catechists- crafts, lessons, and printables on Sacraments, Scripture and Prayer.
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You'll find 60 different Lenten crafts with pictures of the projects and links to the tutorials. Great ideas for a Sunday school class!
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Religious education ideas for Catholic teachers, homeschoolers, and catechists- crafts, lessons, and printables on Sacraments, Scripture and Prayer.
Religious education ideas for Catholic teachers, homeschoolers, and catechists- crafts, lessons, and printables on Sacraments, Scripture and Prayer.
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Teen Tuesday: ABCD Cards Today's post is guest written by Danielle Ringold! Danielle's posts are usually intended for teens, but today's idea can be used for a wide range of ages. Before I became an instructional coach, I was a middle school classroom teacher. I quickly learned the importance of formative assessments. Formative assessments are ways to check for student understanding during the learning process so that the teacher can quickly adjust instruction to meet the needs of the students. One of my most favorite formative assessment practices was ABCD cards. Below you will find out more about using this strategy. Please note that it is useful in grades 1-12 and in schools and Bible classes. Why use it? *Quick way to gauge student’s knowledge during the learning process *Interactive for students *Fun! *Engages students during class discussions When to use? *At the beginning of lesson to assess prior knowledge *During the lesson to monitor student progress towards objective *At the end of the lesson to determine mastery of objective Directions for making ABCD Cards 1. Download ABCD Cards here. 2. Print each sheet of letters on a separate color of copy paper or cardstock. 3. Laminate each sheet. 4. Cut out the letters into four rectangles with one letter on each rectangle. 5. Separate the cards into piles with 1 of each letter. Then hole punch the corners and put a ring on them or put the piles into individual sandwich bags. Once your cards are ready, you can use them to guide responses on Power Points, tests, quizzes, and worksheets in a whole class setting. Just ask the question and have your students respond by raising their choice. The students will love this new way of going over work! You can print the ABCD cards here. Hello! My name is Danielle Ringold. You may recognize the children in the picture because my mom is Debbie Jackson, the owner of the Bible Fun for Kids website. Thanks to Monica at Happy and Blessed Home for featuring this post! Yah! This post is also listed at Free Homeschool Deals! Thanks for visiting!
Religious education ideas for Catholic teachers, homeschoolers, and catechists- crafts, lessons, and printables on Sacraments, Scripture and Prayer.
A cartoon worksheet on the subject of the Trinity - ideal for Trinity Sunday. Click here for instructions and a variety of format options.
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