I’m excited about tonight’s class: doing Sacraments of Initiation LEARNING STATIONS as I mentioned last week. I did my shopping over the weekend to get the supplies I needed and have them neatly packed into one bag. I called my DRE, Arlene, to ask about getting into the building a little earlier than usual. I think I’ll need about 45 minutes to get everything organized. I look forward to giving you a full and detailed report tomorrow on how things turn out! Hope your second week of Advent is off to a great start!
Intermediate Grades
The Promise of a Superhero
I explored God’s message of hope with my fourth graders this week. God shared his message of hope by promising to send someone who would save all people from sin. God promised to send the Messiah. While preparing the lesson, the following sentence jumped out at me: “Jesus did not fit the profile of the Messiah whom many were expecting and were yearning for.” That gave me an idea of how to start a conversation […]
Intermediate Grades
7 Parents Showed Up for Open House!
Last evening’s session went exceptionally well and thank goodness, because parents of 7 of my 13 kids showed up for the open house! It was a great pleasure to meet so many of the parents and to have the kids do such a wonderful job of showing them what they learned! They did so by first reviewing the Exodus/Passover story – putting in chronological order the pictures portraying scenes from the Exodus/Passover experience ( Exodus/Passover Review […]
Intermediate Grades
Sowing the Seeds for Future Catechists
One thing I did this year on the last day of class (something I had never done before) was to invite my 4th graders to consider becoming a catechist some day! I told them that I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with them and that I’m pretty sure it showed. I said that being a catechist is a wonderful way to practice your faith and to bring others closer to God and that I encourage […]
Good luck, Joe! The lesson, like always, sounds wonderful! I can’t wait to hear about it.
Thanks, Shelly, it went very well. I’m digesting the experience now and will write about it in detail tomorrow.
Joe, you are an inspiration to us! You actually shopped days in advance of the event… and it all fits in one bag!??? And you only need 45 minutes to set up! I have printed out your Sacraments of Initiation Event in order to “study it” and “analyze it” and….can I really do this here???? God Bless you! Can’t wait to see how this turns out….May God Bless you, your staff, and all participants with a most delightful event!
Thanks, Shirley. It was a big bag! 🙂
Awesome activity. Will definitely try with our OCI-C Children on their retreat; but we’ll still have to bake our own bread. Thanks Joe! Love the photo… you look like I feel!
Thanks for your comments Joyce…best wishes with the children’s retreat!
Joe,
This is just wonderful. I printed out the lesson for my catechists. Thank you, God Bless and Merry Christmas!
You’re welcome, Charlene…I hope they enjoy using it.
Joe,
Once again, great idea!! Thanks for sharing as always, I will try to do this with my 6th/7th grade class.
I need to be more organized as you 🙂
Carina
Carina, good luck…hope you enjoy doing this lesson.
Hi Joe,
I love the Sacraments of Initiations Stations. Do you have anything for the other 4 Sacraments?
Sandra, I didn’t do learning stations for the other 4 sacraments. I suggest you click on the Categories button on the right side of my home page, just past the halfway point, and browse through my posts that are tagged for Liturgy and the Sacraments. You should find some things I did on the other 4 sacraments.