I am thinking of a family movie night in Advent (combining school and rel. ed. students and their parents). Any suggestions on a movie? Logistics? I was...
We do movie nights throughout the year, but by grade level. The new "Nativity Story" was a beautiful movie and done very well, but I doubt young children would...
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Sep 18, 2007 2:40 am
We do a Saturday Night Movie at the parish on a monthly basis.? Usually a religious theme.? I'm surprised that folks come with all the movies that can be?seen...
Wednesday 19 September 2007 Greetings from Gainesville.. I have been using movies in education for a long time. I love it. Movies have the power to catalyze...
Great ideas Tom! What kind of movie clips do you use for Marriage prep? Tom Rinkoski <tomrinkoski@...> wrote: Wednesday 19 September 2007 Greetings from...
Thursday 20 September 2007 Lillian, You ask about films I used in marriage education. At the time I wrote the marriage prep program (please remember this was...
Oh, I'm so glad to see this thread come up on my "digest" message for this group. I'd love to do this, too, but am wondering how you veterans manage "clips...
Quick question to this group about reading aloud in class. Not that catechists have kids burying their noses in the books ALL the time, but when it is a chunk...
Some favorites of mine are "About A Boy" for emphasizing community, and "Stranger Than Fiction" for a glimpse at the God-Man relationship. (Or at least one...
I'm not a fan at all of reading aloud in class. Even as a child, subject to this method, I thought it was a silly way to learn. The children reading are...
Hi- When I first started off as a 3rd grade teacher, I remembered how much I loved to play school when I was that age. I decided to allow the kids to take...
We try not to do a lot of reading. Our classes are after school from 4-5 and the kids have had enough school work. The catechists try to translate the focus...
Jeannine, Kathy, Barbara: Thanks SO much for such helpful feedback. I'm a newish DRE (today was my first day of classes, Year 2!) and inherited a very...
Try CTA they have things in all price ranges. Sherill _____ From: dre-talk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dre-talk@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lara Druffner Sent:...
Happy Beginnings! I hope everyone has experienced some blessings in the craziness of launching a new year of handing on the faith. I want to take this...
Good morning DRE-talkers, I'm glad to see you all back and fully into another catechetical year. I have a request to make of you. If I've made this request...
Hi Target usually has a great section in the front of the store with seasonal items. For the fall, I bought everyone a ceramic leaf shaped dish and put some...
wow what a great idea. Thanks Anne Marie ... From: kroro43@...<mailto:kroro43@...> To: dre-talk@yahoogroups.com<mailto:dre-talk@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
Hi, Dan. Thank you for the really helpful materials you provided us for catechetical Sunday. You are a real treasure! I know you are collecting Bible stories,...
Michelle, Thanks for the compliment and thanks for the question. I am looking for stories in the Bible that you, a catechetical leader, thinks works well or is...
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Sep 28, 2007 3:26 am
To Daniel Mulhall's comment on the source of the many who are not in catechesis: Catholic USA by Froehle and Guatier, Orbis Books in 1994 is more recent than...
I wish we had some way of finding reliable statistics. I find here that we have children going to class who never come to Mass on Sunday.(Obviously their...
I am hoping to receive some help from the group. The database I am currently using to keep students records for Parish School of Religion is outdated and...
How about using some reading from Ezra - where he reads the Word, which had been lost, before all the people... You could use a formal blessing from the Book...
Hi, Carolyn. We switched to Parish Data Systems and it is the easiest program we have used. On the service for presenting the Bibles, I would base it on the...
Hi Carolyn....we use PDS too! ... Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. [Non-text...
Hello, our parish switched curriculums a year ago. I have a lot of leftover texts from RCL's Faith First program, some used and some new. I thought I'd post...
You may also wish to look into ParishSoft: http://www.parishsoft.com/parish-software.htm?gclid=CL-9mf_W6I4CFQKhIgodUCrtJg It is a program developed based on...
