We had a question from a DRE today about the Modeling Dough With A Surprise activity from the upcoming classroom lesson: I was wondering if you knew how much the “Modeling Dough With a Surprise” makes. And will the colors bleed through if it is made the day before? I know I’ve made it before [...]
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From Today’s Mailbag:
March 22, 2012All vocations lead to heaven!
January 27, 2012One of our creative catechists made a very eye-catching visual of this truth by taping paths all over her classroom. She demonstrated that even though all the vocational choices are distinct and have certain overlaps, they all move toward the same goal of eternal life in heaven. What a great introduction to last month’s topic! [...]
Motivating responsibility
September 20, 2011Over the years my five kids have had a lot of different catechists for Family Formation and I’ve seen many creative ideas. One of the best ideas to motivate them to think about the classroom requirements throughout the month is setting up some kind of reward system. On a simpler level, the catechist sets up [...]
March Classroom Creativity
March 7, 2011This month classrooms are focusing on God the Father, especially in His role as Creator. One creative catechist made this set of bean bags depicting the seven days of creation, and used them as she told the story. The tactile clues brought a new dimension to the story and served as another way to trigger [...]
November’s Classrooms
November 9, 2010This month kids learned more about the Saints through the story of Saint Martin of Tours. The red cloth on this prayer table is a hint of things to come in the lesson. This catechist reminded her students that we are all called to become saints. (Saint Ava, Saint Margaret, Saint Matthew, Saint Veronica, Saint [...]
Game Night!
January 26, 2010Subtitle: More Free Stuff Our creative catechists have been busy coming up with ways to help your kids memorize the books of the Bible and we’d like to share a few of them with you. One game’s focus is helping your students categorize all the books according to their major divisions (Old or New Testament? [...]
Love One Another
January 7, 2010One of the things your children learned about in this month’s classroom time is the grace a couple receives through the sacrament of Matrimony. To Catholics, marriage is more than just a civil contract, it is a divine covenant between the couple and God Himself, and a marriage freely entered into with full knowledge and [...]
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