Stop, Listen, and Pray!
A Prayer Ritual for First Graders
Jenifer Scheimann
Congratulations to Jenifer Scheimann of Springboro, OH, on being chosen as the May Idea of the Month winner! Jenifer won $100 for sharing a simple prayer ritual she used with her first-grade class that her students continued to practice at home.
To
help my first graders develop spontaneous prayer, empathy, and an
awareness of their surroundings, we would always stop whatever we were
doing when we heard a siren. At the beginning of the year, I would say
a prayer asking for protection and help for the people involved in the
emergency and for the emergency personnel. But gradually, throughout
the year, the students took over saying the prayer.
Many
times, they would hear a siren before I did. They would all bow their
heads and listen to their classmates saying their prayers. I heard from
parents later that the children continued this practice at home.
Jenifer
Scheimann introduced this simple and effective way of caring and
praying to her first grade class at the West Campus of Bishop Leibold
School, Miamisburg, OH.
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