Yesterday, students from Our Lady of Grace served the community. Here’s a photo from an older class (my preschoolers were napping!) playing bingo with an adult group. Everyone had fun!
Spontaneous Hokey-Pokey
Our theme today is “Celebrate Catholic Schools.” The junior high joined Alleman High School at our opening Mass. The Alleman Ambassadors will be visiting students at school. Continue Reading
At long last, Catholic Schools Week!
Catholic Schools Week has finally arrived, and we’re all excited. We have many fun activities planned.
We actually began over the weekend, with Our Lady of Grace families participating in all of the Masses at our 5 parishes. Continue Reading
To the Moon!!
This week we learned about outer space. First, we went to the NASA website where Elmo gave us a tour of the space shuttle and parts of the Kennedy Space Center. Elmo also interviewed an astronaut. The students loved it and learned a lot! Continue Reading
Franklin’s Good Deed
Today one of my students was having a rough day. “Patrick” (not his real name) missed his mommy. He didn’t want to play with blocks or read. He didn’t want to play with the other kids. He was just having a crummy day.
Till he found my stuffed Franklin, that is! Franklin turned Patrick’s day around. Continue Reading
Being Present
The children love Father Greg. He’s always taking time to listen and play with them. Today he invited us up during the homily to tell the students a story with a puppet. We all loved it. Father Greg embodies the Benedictine value of being present to others, by listening with the ear of the heart (St. Benedict said that!).
I love sharing my life as a Catholic Benedictine Sister with others. Call or write me any time to ask me questions!! 🙂
Keep Celebrating Christmas!
We are happy to be together again after Christmas vacation. The kids are excited to tell and share what they received on Christmas and did over break.
Most of them don’t realize the Christmas season is not over yet! (In fact, the Christmas season doesn’t begin the day after Thanksgiving and end on Dec. 25. It begins when Advent ends – the last Sunday before Christmas – and ends with the Baptism of Jesus following Epiphany – Jan. 9 this year.) Continue Reading
A Preschool Christmas Concert
After 2 months of practice, the children finally performed their Christmas songs in front of their schoolmates and parents. We had 2 shows: 1 in the afternoon and 1 in the evening. Cookies and punch and a visit with Santa followed the show, making for quite an exciting time! Continue Reading
The New Roman Missal: Part 2
Teaching preschoolers about the revised Roman Missal is not easy, to say the least. Lots of grownups will be confused! But I’m giving it a try … and incorporating a little teaching across the curriculum in the process. Continue Reading
Grateful for God … Friends … Thanksgiving Break!
Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday for any age group. Preschoolers understand the concepts of working together … making friends … sharing: themes we work on all year. And that’s what we concentrated on during our Thanksgiving party! Continue Reading
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