It’s beginning to look a lot like….Advent?
Happy November all! After All Saints Day, I think Advent is my very favorite time to be Catholic. (I think that come Holy Week, I might say that is my…
Simple Strategies for building community at the beginning of the school year
9 simple ways to build community as a staff, with parents and in your classroom.
If these walls could talk…
Every teacher knows...our walls do talk. We spend hours designing and creating bulletin boards, doors, moving posters, all to maximize what students can learn from just looking around the room.…
Let our hearts be led by mercy: a penance service
Throughout the year at our school, each mass and prayer service is planned and run by one class or grade level. At masses, these students are the readers and choir,…
What I learned from the prayer service that failed.
It was the ultimate Pinterest fail, and unfortunately the whole school got to see it. When the 8th grade class was in charge of the planning the first rosary of…
5 ways to celebrate the month of the Rosary
October is the month of the Rosary, and here are 5 ideas to help you celebrate in your class and school community. Do a color and pray rosary. Our school…
Love. Pray. Serve
It's hard to believe that we've been in school for a month now, but as promised, here is the retreat plan from our back to school retreat and some thoughts…
5 back to school activities that will make Religion class better
It's that time again - many of us are plugging away in dusty classrooms, measuring paper for bulletin boards and wondering where the summer went. I've been poring over my…
Close Reading in Religion Class
So I write this from a super fancy hotel in Las Vegas, which may seem a bit counter intuitive for a religion blog, but I am at a conference on…
Summer Spirituality
Now that June is coming to a close, I finally feel like summer is beginning. Between closing my classroom for the summer, working on the school library and teaching Vacation…