Jan 23

IDEA OF THE MONTH: Share Your Ideas!

Your Teaching Idea Can Win You $100!

Share your ideas with your fellow catechists and collect $100 if your idea is chosen as the Idea of the Month. Your teaching idea can be a simple prayer experience, a catechetical activity, or a lesson project appropriate for (or adaptable to) learners in kindergarten through sixth grade.

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Idea of the Month: January

Finding Secret Valentine Messages in the Bible
by Patricia Banner

Are you looking for a fun project for Valentine’s Day? Invite children to make valentine puzzles with secret messages from the Bible.

Catechist Patricia Banner uses these valentine puzzles to teach children how to find passages in the Bible. And here’s how she does it.
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Dec 30

Idea of the Month: December

Traveling Vocation Tote Bags
by Donna Stachulski

Vocation Tote Bags are the invention of DRE Donna Stachulski and are intended to increase vocation awareness at St. Linus Parish in Dearborn Heights, MI. Eight Vocation Tote Bags travel throughout the year to families of the children in the religious education program at St. Linus.
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Nov 21

Idea of the Month: November

Prepare Your Hearts—An Advent Prayer Service*
by Sister Jenada Fanetti, SDS

In this prayer service, Jeremiah, Ruth, and John the Baptist come to life and share their stories to urge children to prepare for Jesus’ coming by finding everyday ways to follow him.

Sister Jenada Fanetti, SDS, pastoral care minister for St. Isidore Congregation in Mount Calvary, WI, has written scripts for each of these biblical figures. She wants children to see that God continues to send prophets to prepare the way for the Savior. Sister Jenada has played the roles of all of the biblical figures. But you may wish to ask adult leaders or older students to take the parts of Jeremiah, Ruth, and John the Baptist.
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Oct 17

Idea of the Month: October

The Saints Go Marching!
by Kelley Van Lanen

The saints go marching into church for the All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day celebration at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Bark River, MI.

Preparation for the celebration begins when DRE Kelley Van Lanen has each grade in the parish’s program choose a saint to study. Each group prepares a presentation on their saint and one or more students from each group dress up as the saint they studied.
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Sep 13

Idea of the Month: September

Practice Kindness! Make It a Habit!
by Fran Battipaglia

Catechist Fran Battipaglia has found a way to
encourage her students to practice acts of
kindness until kindness and helping others
become a habit. In her own words, here's
how Fran gets her students excited about
doing good deeds!
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Aug 29

Idea of the Month: August

Prayer Place Mats
by Tina Westergaard

Catechist Tina Westergaard found a fun and easy way for her first graders to learn their prayers. She makes prayer place mats that her students can take home as a reminder to practice their prayers at every meal.

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Jul 26

Idea of the Month: July

Sacramentals Memory Game
By Joanne M. Sheehan

Here’s a fun way to introduce students to some sacramentals and other items familiar and important to Catholics. Catechist Joanne Sheehan created The Sacramentals Memory Game, which uses a tried and true baby shower game and turns it into classroom fun. Here are Joanne’s directions.

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Jun 28

Idea of the Month: June

Creation Cadence
by Susan Powell

Catechist Susan Powell was looking for a fun way to teach about how God created the world. She came up with a cadence, or rhyme, to help her students learn and understand the creation story.


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May 18

Idea of the Month: May

Teach About the Different Forms of Prayer with I P-R-A-Y
by Bill Donovan

When catechist Bill Donovan wanted to introduce the different kinds of prayer to the class he teaches with Anthony Laverdi, he remembered the ACTS mnemonic formula that he had once learned – Adoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving, Supplication.

He noticed that in many lists of the types of prayer, Intercession has also been included. Wanting to include Intercession in his lesson, Bill developed his own mnemonic formula to help his students understand and remember the types of prayer.

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