Religious
Lent Activities
04/02/09 11:47 AM
Lent is here and students are involved in a variety of activities in their classroom. Is it time for “giving up” and “going without” or is it a time of reflective prayer and a time for giving and receiving? Read how our students are preparing for this Holy season.
Kindergarten is praying a decade of the rosary each week, visiting adoration 3 times, silent prayer for 2-5 minutes two times a week, making a blanket for Northside Life Care Center and doing good deeds for classmates (like helping a friend, pushing in chairs, letting a classmate go first) everyday.
First grade is coloring a calendar of daily activities to do during lent, e.g., pray for people, forgive someone, do a chore, make a card for someone, etc. We are also coloring a stations of the cross book, we are spending 15 minutes a week in Adoration.
Mrs. Harty's classroom made a treasure chest with jewels of sacrifice, sharing, and prayers to follow Jesus's advice to "store up treasure in heaven." We have station of the cross booklets to look at during free time and when we visit the Adoration Chapel on Thursdays.
Third Grade has selected extra activities to do for the three themes of Lent. We have selected extra prayers to say, extra actions to give up and extra duties to help others at our school. We are filling a jar with colored beans to represent our activities. We hope to fill a very large jar.
During the season of Lent, Fourth Graders have made a promise of prayer. Each morning, we will gather in a group and offer a time of silent and spontaneous prayer. Also, during the season, 4th Graders will explore and discuss our Catholic Church's traditions of Fasting and Almsgiving to reinforce our relationship with God and neighbor.
The fifth graders set two individual goals: one to give up something and one good deed. They are keeping track of their goals by hanging up a paper pretzel in the room each time they meet a goal. Their class goal is to make it around the room twice with paper pretzels! As a class we are also helping to set up for the Fish Fry each Friday and saying the Rosary (as different 5th graders lead each part) each week.
The Middle School classes are writing special prayers and deeds they are doing during Lent on crosses and posting them on a "Take up Your Cross" bulletin board. All of the middle school classes are doing spiritual bouquets consisting of Adoration, extra prayer, and extra acts of respect and kindness.
Kindergarten is praying a decade of the rosary each week, visiting adoration 3 times, silent prayer for 2-5 minutes two times a week, making a blanket for Northside Life Care Center and doing good deeds for classmates (like helping a friend, pushing in chairs, letting a classmate go first) everyday.
First grade is coloring a calendar of daily activities to do during lent, e.g., pray for people, forgive someone, do a chore, make a card for someone, etc. We are also coloring a stations of the cross book, we are spending 15 minutes a week in Adoration.
Mrs. Harty's classroom made a treasure chest with jewels of sacrifice, sharing, and prayers to follow Jesus's advice to "store up treasure in heaven." We have station of the cross booklets to look at during free time and when we visit the Adoration Chapel on Thursdays.
Third Grade has selected extra activities to do for the three themes of Lent. We have selected extra prayers to say, extra actions to give up and extra duties to help others at our school. We are filling a jar with colored beans to represent our activities. We hope to fill a very large jar.
During the season of Lent, Fourth Graders have made a promise of prayer. Each morning, we will gather in a group and offer a time of silent and spontaneous prayer. Also, during the season, 4th Graders will explore and discuss our Catholic Church's traditions of Fasting and Almsgiving to reinforce our relationship with God and neighbor.
The fifth graders set two individual goals: one to give up something and one good deed. They are keeping track of their goals by hanging up a paper pretzel in the room each time they meet a goal. Their class goal is to make it around the room twice with paper pretzels! As a class we are also helping to set up for the Fish Fry each Friday and saying the Rosary (as different 5th graders lead each part) each week.
The Middle School classes are writing special prayers and deeds they are doing during Lent on crosses and posting them on a "Take up Your Cross" bulletin board. All of the middle school classes are doing spiritual bouquets consisting of Adoration, extra prayer, and extra acts of respect and kindness.
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