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Religious Education Pre-school through 7th grade

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Classes for Grades 1-8

see the link below for the Confirmation Page

 

 

What time do they meet?
Grades PreSchool and Kindergarten meet during the Sunday 11:00 AM

Grade 1 Choose either Sun 11:00 AM or  Wed 4:30 PM or  Wed 6:30 PM

Grades 2-5 Choose either Wed 4:30 PM or Wed 6:30 PM

Grade 6-7 Choose either Wed 4:30 PM or Wed 6:30 PM or Sunday 6:30 PM

Grade 8 is Wed 6:30 This is the normal age of Confirmation at Assumption altough it is open to older youth as well. For more information click here:
http://www.assumptionbvm.com/religious/religious_confirmation.html

What book do we use?
Loyola University Press, Christ Our Life Series, 2007 edition

What are the goals for each grade?

Goals for Grade One: God is Good This program of the revised Christ Our Life series introduces your child to the goodness of God as a loving Father who has given us the gift of his own life through Baptism. Your child comes to know and love Jesus as his or her best friend. The program leads the children to a joyful awareness that the Spirit of Jesus is present in the Church and within us, calling us to speak to God our Father and to praise him by living as his children. Each lesson leads your child to a prayerful relationship with God. A Scripture prayer booklet is provided to foster your child's prayer life.
During this First Grade the children will begin to learn the basics of our faith to begin their preparation for receiving their First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion in Second Grade.

Goals for Grade Two: God Cares for Us God Cares for Us prepares your child to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Penance) and the Eucharist. Your child learns many signs of God's loving care and practical ways to use his or her talents to share God's love with others. The program leads the children to respond joyfully to God's call to give themselves in love to him and others.
Additional Information can be found by clicking or on the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Penance) or Eucharist link.

Goals for Grade Three: We Believe This year your child will be learning how God calls us to faith and eternal life with him as members of the faith community, the Church. The focus of this year's study is faith, belief and trust in our all-knowing and all-loving God. The children are presented with the mysteries of faith that we profess in the Creed. Through Old and New Testament events they learn of God's saving love for his people and the truths of our faith. It is hoped that your child will respond with a trusting, joyful surrender to God and an acceptance of all God has taught us.

Goals for Grade Four: God Guides Us This year your child will be learning how God calls us to live with him forever. The commandments are taught as signs of God's love, and the Beatitudes are introduced as Jesus' way to happiness. Your child is led to a greater appreciation of the sacraments and is encouraged to respond joyfully to God's call to live in the spirit of his love.

Focus in Grade Five: We Worship The fifth graders will study Christian worship and the Sacraments. Jesus' life was full of praise and worship of the Father. His every thought, word, and act worshipped God. Indeed, Christ's last gift to us was the Eucharist, the offering of himself in joyful praise to the Father. What Jesus did, we must also do. In imitation of Him, we should live lives of prayer, loving service, and sacrifice. Through the Sacraments we strengthen grace, our relationship with God, We are able to worship the Father by following Christ.

Focus in Grade Seven: Jesus the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

The title of this year's program is Jesus the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Through their texts the students will reflect on the person of Jesus and on their baptismal call to walk with him along the WAY to the Father. They will listen to the TRUTH of his teaching, and they will meditate on the gift of new LIFE that is theirs through the sacraments because of his dying and rising. They will be challenged to respond to Jesus by walking his WAY and encouraging others to follow him, by living according to the TRUTH he taught, and by sharing his LIFE and love with all whom they meet.
They will prayerfully ponder Jesus' words and deeds in order to know better what God is like. They will also look at their own life situation and prayerfully ask what they should say or do as true followers of Jesus.

Focus of Grade Six: God Calls a PeopleThe title of the sixth-grade program is God Calls A People. This year, your child will study God's revelation to the people he bound to himself in covenant love. The program emphasizes our Father's call for a love relationship with him and with the Church community through his Son, Jesus. Intrinsic to this relationship is a caring love for all people. The study of the Hebrew Scriptures, or Old Testament, leads your child to see in Jesus the perfect fulfillment of all the Father has promised as well as the perfect response to his love.
As your child becomes familiar with salvation history, he or she is encouraged to read the Bible and to use the Word of God for prayer.
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