Mrs. Belcher, MTS – Fifth – Eighth Grade Religion
Posted on January 27, 2012, by Beth Belcher, under Middle School Notes.
PrintReligion classes have been working very hard throughout the entire 1st semester and have accomplished a great deal! Below is our focus for the next few weeks:
8th: Faith Sharing #4 will practically be a thing of the past by the time you read this!! I know that we are all excited about the end to these time consuming assignments. Rest assured, however, that these assignments will help your child to be able to articulate their faith in God in a way that many of their contemporaries do not have. We are moving on to the last bit of information before Confirmation, which will take place on Saturday, February 11, at the 5pm Mass. Please be sure to have your student in the cafeteria no later than 4:15 on that day. Pictures will be available to be taken. More information on that soon. The parish Confirmation retreat will be on Saturday, February 4. More information will be forthcoming as more information is sent from the rectory.
8th grade will continue to study in our books about the Church, but we will add a timeline element which helps them to place important events and happenings in the Church and the world throughout history. It is a very valuable timeline which they can take with them into high school.
7th: Our study of God and His Son, Jesus, in the New Testament will continue to take up our time. We will review God’s Plan for Salvation, Moses, and the prophets in order to lead up to Jesus and how the Old Testament is being fulfilled in the New. We will begin to focus, then, on Palestine in the time of Jesus, making our huge paper maps as a precursor to the salt clay maps that are a tradition at St Elizabeth’s.
6th: Our study of the Old Testament continues as the sixth graders learn about Abraham, Moses, and the Ten Commandments. We relate this to ourselves today and find that by following God completely, by listening for His call and asking for His help, we can grow to be the people God is calling us to be.
5th: We continue our understanding of Creation with a focus on the angels. Students will find that angels are pure spirits, a different ‘species’ than we are and, as such, are not what we become when we die. God made us separately and lovingly. We serve a purpose in life that angels don’t and vice versa. We then will move to ourselves being made in God’s image and how Adam and Eve’s choices gave us Original Sin. But God gave Baptism to wash away our sad inheritance from Adam and Eve.
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Mrs. Strunk – PKB
Posted on October 14, 2011, by Kathy Strunk, under Pre-kindergarten.
PrintOctober/November Blurb
October did bring some cooler weather at last! We have many things going on in October.
LANGUAGE ARTS
In Our Investigator Club program we will finish meeting all of the characters, Chuck Wood, Manny Salamander and Bruno Buzzbee. The children will be asked if they would like to join the Investigator Club.
In our Open Court Program we will be discussing families. We will learn finger plays about families and read books about families and do activities about families. We are counting letters in words and will begin to count words in sentences.
We are talking about what is first and last in a row.
We will be sequencing story lines for what happens first, second. We discuss characters and where the action takes place.
MATH
We are working with shapes and sequencing numbers one to five. We are making graphs, too.
We do different activities to reinforce these concepts.
RELIGION
We are talking about the Garden of Eden. We will talk about Angels and Noah’s Ark. We do different activities with these stories. October is the month of the Rosary. We will be introduced to saying the Rosary. The class makes a big rosary together.
EVENTS IN OCTOBER
October 14, 2011 – Teddy Bear Day and Picnic
October 31, 2011 – Halloween Parade children will wear a costume
Trip through Heaven
More information will be sent home about these events.
During November we will be having lots of fun!
LANGUAGE ARTS
In the Investigator Club we will be investigating our “Under Construction Unit.”
In the Open Court Program we will begin our “All Kinds of Friends Unit.”
We will be learning about the Pilgrims and Indians.
MATH
We will be sequencing numbers 1 -10, one-to-one correspondence with numbers 1 – 10. We will continue to work with shapes. We will also do some simple equations.
RELIGION
We will be discussing different kinds of prayers: Praising, Thanking, Asking and Forgiving. We will also be reading Old Testament stories.
EVENTS for NOVEMBER
November 1, 2011 – All Saints Day
Children come dressed as their favorite Saint
November 4, 2011 – Parent Conferences
November 22, 2011 – Half Day – Noon Dismissal
Thanksgiving Feast
More information will be sent home about these events.
Happy Thanksgiving and may God bless each one of your families this Thanksgiving in an awesome way! Mrs. Strunk & Ms. Martinez
Check out out the city we made!
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Mrs. Belcher, MTS – Middle School Religion
Posted on May 27, 2011, by Beth Belcher, under Middle School Notes.
PrintDear Parents,
This year has been a delight for me and I have enjoyed your children tremendously. I have learned a lot this year, and I hope that your children can say the same! I look forward to being with your children next year and building upon the religious foundation that we have laid this year.
8th grade:
Congratulations to each and every one of you. I hope that the knowledge you have gained this year will help you in high school and that you will take away from St Elizabeth’s fond memories of all of the Masses, devotions and prayers that you have participated in and have learned. I will continue to pray for you as you move forward in your spirituality. God bless you, stay safe and enjoy your summer!
7th grade:
Students may begin to log 8th grade service hours starting on the day after 7th grade is out for summer. Students are required to log at the very least 30 hours of service and are encouraged to log as many as they are able. Each year students log more than 100 hours of service and are forever memorialized on the “100 Club” bulletin board in my room, to be an example and inspiration to future classes. I will go over all of the particulars with 7th grade regarding service hours.
Binders are due next week, May 31st. The 7th grade Religion final will take place on Wednesday, June 1st, it will be counted as two test grades. Reviews are due before the final and are counted as one test grade. Reviews should be done in the students own handwriting, should be done individually, and must be complete to be considered for full credit.
Reminder: All 8th grade students go on the Pines team building and Confirmation retreat which will be held on September 28-30, 2011. The total cost of the trip is $195. If you have not made a deposit towards the Pines trip you may do so during the summer months, M-Th 9:00-12Noon. The school office will be closed during the last full week in July. All monies for the Pines trip will be due on September 1, 2011.
6th grade:
It is very exciting to see how far the 6th graders have come in their understanding of the Old Testament! They will certainly be ready for the our study of the New Testament in 7th grade!
Binders are due next week, May 31st. The 6th grade Religion final will take place on Wednesday, June 2nd, it will be counted as two test grades. Reviews are due before the final and are counted as one test grade. Reviews should be done in the students own handwriting, should be done individually, and must be complete to be considered for full credit.
*I pray that all students may have a safe and restful summer vacation and come back to school in August ready for a great year in Religion!!
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Mrs. Guerrero – Kindergarten
Posted on October 28, 2010, by Melissa Guerrero, under Kindergarten.
PrintWe are so thankful that we have a great bunch of kindergartners! This is what we will be doing this week:
Religion – We will study saints this month! We will make a book of saints and at the end of the month two kindergartners will participate in the procession of saints at Church. We will also continues to read and learn about old testament Bible stories.
Language Arts – Our new unit is SHADOWS. The goals for this unit are: learn more about shadows through books and active experimentation, learn about informational prose and how it differs from narrative, and engage in hands-on activities to see if answers are correct. We will begin to have homework on letters that we work on in class! The children are so excited!
Math – Our objectives for this month are: recognize and name numerals 11 -20, count by 10′s to 100, order numerals 1-20 on a number line, count on from numbers other than 1, identify ordinal positions, extend AB patterns, recognize and name rectangle and oval, compare shapes and tell how they are the same and different, and sort objects by shape, color, size, and other attributes. We will continue to create and interpret graphs.
Social Studies – We will learn about the first Thanksgiving and do various activities about Thanksgiving. We will have a Thanksgiving feast on November 23.
Science – We will continue to investigate ways to keep our bodies healthy. We will also observe our indian corn in water. What happens? We will also observe our pumpkin guts in a jar and watch how it decomposes.
Have a great month!
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Mrs. Belcher, MTS – Middle School Religion
Posted on October 29, 2010, by Beth Belcher, under Middle School Notes.
Print8th grade:
Students are coming right along with Confirmation preparation! They have turned in two Faith Sharing assignments and are half-way finished! We will continue to learn about the Church; models, prayer, the Holy Spirit as Sanctifier, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Your students have each written a prayer that they will be able to add to the morning prayers for the entire school. Soon they will say spontaneous prayer! They become pretty proud of themselves when they accomplish this. Please continue to pray for your son or daughter as they prepare for Confirmation.
7th grade:
We are continuing our understanding of Acts of the Apostles and the coming of the Holy Spirit. We are moving towards knowing the Apostles and their contribution to our faith. We will also focus on Mary and the saints and why we ask their intercession as well as seeing them as role models even for today. The seventh grade will begin their Apostles Wanted Poster project next week!
6th grade:
The sixth grade class has really come a long way since the beginning of the school year – I am so proud of them! They are a smart and thinking class and do very well in Religion. We will continue to work on our Old Testament understanding of God and salvation history. We have just completed our Creation project, know what a myth is and are ready to take steps to understand how sin came into the world and the stories which illustrate God’s actions towards sin and sinners and how God developed a covenant with us, God’s children.
All of the classes have been going over bullying actions and reactions; finding ways to be true to one’s self and still care for another who is being treated in an unfair way. All of the classes are also reading the 7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens book and doing various assignments which have helped them to discover that good habits help to establish good character. Guidance class is a process of going over material and living in a way which models right behavior for students. Parents are the most influential role models for their children, as well as being the primary educator. Thank you in advance for working with your children to set good boundaries and help them to see that they, like the other students in the class, are a gift from God. Please feel free to contact me at bbelcher@saintspride.com
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Mrs. Strunk – PK4
Posted on September 29, 2010, by Kathy Strunk, under Pre-kindergarten.
PrintPK4 has been moving right along. The children had so many procedures to learn in many different areas. They are doing a fantastic job.
Language Arts
This month we have been working with the “I’m Special” Unit. The children have learned many finger-plays and songs. They have listened to and discussed many books. At the end of September and into October we will begin a new unit about “Families Everywhere”. The children will learn finger-plays and songs about different types of families and will listen to and discuss books about families.
Religion
We have been working on the sign of the cross and the prayers: Our Father, Hail Mary, and the Glory Be. We have read the Creation Story and done activities for this story. We will continue the Creation Story. October is the month of the rosary and we will be doing various activities to help us learn about the rosary. We will also continue to read Old Testament Stories.
Math
The children have been exploring the math center. We have also been working with shapes and numbers 1 – 5.
In October we will work on sorting objects. We will sort them by their attributes. We will also be working with patterns.
Social-Emotional Growth
We have been working on following classroom and playground rules, and becoming aware of our class schedules and routines.
Actually we have been having lots of fun because kids just want to have fun. Please refer to the parent letters for any news and upcoming events.
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