OBJECTIVES AND HOMEWORK - October 28

FIRST YEAR SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION

·                 Students will understand that we can listen for God talking to us.

·                 They will realize that God speaks to us in many ways – in prayer, in the Bible, and through other people who care for us.

·                 Students will have the opportunity through a video, a song and an activity with bubbles, to think about God’s conversation with us.

·                 Students will explore ways we can tell whether other people are communicating God’s words and love to us.

HOMEWORK:  Parents, read Psalm 19: 1-6 to your child.  At bedtime or morning prayers, spend a moment or two in silence, simply listening.  

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION

·                 Children will become familiar with the word “command”.

·                 Children will hear a Bible passage to help them understand that when we show love to others we are showing love to Jesus.

·                 Children will practice thinking about what Jesus would do in various situations.

HOMEWORK – Parents, help your children complete the front of the homework sheet.  Then, through the week, see if you can see examples of people Loving God and Loving Others that you can add to the chart on the back.

THIRD GRADE

·                 Students will become familiar with the idea of God’s loving-kindness and will be presented with the word “Providence.”

·                  Children will recognize Moses as a person preserved by God to lead his people out of slavery in Egypt.

·                 Students will be familiar with the early stories of Moses: Baby Moses in the Bulrushes, Moses and the Burning Bush, and Moses and the Pharaoh.

HOMEWORK:  Parents should work with their children to complete the worksheet.  They will want to re-read Chapter 6 together beforehand.  Watch for God’s loving-kindness in all that happens this week.

FOURTH GRADE

·                 Students will understand that the Bible begins with what are called “Sin Stories” that relate how humans turned away from God.

·                 Students will do a picture meditation on Sin.

·                 Students will explore the story of Noah and the Ark

·                 Students will be exposed to the idea that the elements of the story have a greater meaning – the water as a sign of baptism, the ark as a figure of the Church, and the one door in the Ark as representing Jesus 

HOMEWORK:  With a parent read about the Tower of Babel in your textbook, pages 22-23.  Children should share their picture with someone at home and explain the deeper meaning of the Noah’s Ark story.  Color the picture meditation.

FIFTH GRADE

·                 Students will review a number of stories from Genesis and Exodus

·                 Students will be able to place the different stories on a timeline

·                 Students will be able to identify a number of “types” in the Old Testament

·                 Students will see that the Hebrew people had to learn through sad experience because they didn’t listen to God

HOMEWORK    Read over chapters 7-9 with someone at home.