Is it possible that the new materials you have sent be made available in Spanish. Our community is bilingual and it would be very helpful.
In response to Annette’s comment, we have reworked a couple of our World Meeting of Families pieces and they’re now available in Spanish as well as English.
You can find the original post outlining our brainstorming here, and the new pieces are here. (SPAN Papal Mass Prayer Intention SPAN-WMoF prayer table piece and SPAN Papal Mass Prayer Intention)
ATTENTION DREs!
Family Formation is very excited about the upcoming World Meeting of Families and our creative Core Team has been brainstorming ideas to bring it to life for our families here in Minnesota. Besides the obvious connections with family life, we are looking forward to the opportunity to help our families get better connected with the Universal Church!
In the interest of sharing ideas, we’d like to get the conversation started by letting you know some of our tentative plans. We know some of you are working on this too and we would love to hear your ideas as well!
To connect with our brainstorming, open this Parish WMoF ideas document first and then you might also be interested in this WMoF prayer table piece.
UPDATE: More pieces have been added.
It’s a well established fact that music helps kids to make connections which makes learning easier and more effective. Family Formation takes advantage of this in all sorts of ways* but the most ongoing one is our monthly memory verses. In the past, we’ve distributed cassettes and then CD’s to families and now we’re nudging just one more step into the current century by posting all the verses in MP3. I’ll post a reminder each month, but you’ll always be able to find them on the sidebar link, clearly labeled.
Once you click on the link, just find the one you want, click on it and hit the download button. Couldn’t be easier!
*We’ve had kids as young as preschool age memorize all the books of the Bible!
As promised yesterday, click on the link below to open a really simple set of flashcards to help your kids memorize the list of the seven sacraments.
I can picture them being used in three different ways:
Either way, flashcards are a good way to help visual learners, non-readers, or anyone who would just prefer to learn through playing a game rather than just slogging through a list over and over.
I’m pretty old-school when it comes to phones, but I have to admit that some of the fantastic apps for smart phones make me want to rethink that decision. This one in particular* has been brought to my attention several times in the past couple weeks.
Subtitle: 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? Wisdom, prophet, law? Etc.). The other’s objective is to help kids learn the names of all 73 books in order. These games add manipulative and visual elements to the learning and they add action! Both games were designed for classroom use, but could easily be adapted for family fun. The links below open into pdf’s that you can print.
Classifying the Books of the Bible game
Here at the Church of Saint Paul, the Family Formation staff is very excited about the Year of Faith and all the potential graces that are just waiting to be poured out onto our families as they grow in their knowledge and love of Christ and the Church He established!
The Cate-Quizm Challenge is designed to encourage parents open their copies of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and get a little more familiar with the beautiful depth of the Catholic Faith. It is accessible to beginners, and will challenge those who are already familiar with the Catechism as well. The details of the Challenge can be found in this post from last week, and since the cards for the year are ready to go, you can print them all from this file. Note: It’s designed to be printed two-sided and will have two half-size cards per page.
I’ll be blogging individual cards and the answers (and possibly other updates) throughout the school year, but for planning purposes thought it might be helpful for you to have everything up front.
One more thing – I’m sure you’re a bunch of smarties, but as a time-saver having the answers might be helpful as well.
