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Catechist Handbook
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Remote Learning Plan
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Fall October/November Update from Mrs. Joni:
Dear Catechists,Our first due date for the Gospel Weeklies is here! I would first like to thank all of you for volunteering to help check our student's work and to help me by sending me a list of the students whose work you have checked over. I have a few information points and reminders to share with you all*The Remote Religious Education email(the one parents use to send in their child's work) is forwarding the student's assignments to your church email. If you answer a student (and please acknowledge a student when you receive their work!) If you do NOT change the "to" in your email to the parent's email address (the parent email address will typically show up once you start typing the family name) the system is sending your email RIGHT BACK to the Remote Religious Education email...which then forwards your email back to you... and back to me. PLEASE change the "To" in the emails to the family's email,(again these should appear once you start typing the family name in the "to" section) and then copy my email under "CC" so I know you have already acknowledged the received work.*Some families are still confused about what they should be doing. Please refer to the parent pamphlet on our website www.stchristopherski.org , but in a nutshell these kids should be doing all the assignments/puzzles/activities and questions that are inside their Gospel Weeklies. Most importantly, I would like you to see their answers to the questions in the Gospel Weeklies. Some families are not able to print out the digital copies and are having trouble having the kids complete the different puzzles to show. It is MOST important for the students to be answering the questions. If the parent is sending in the answers to all the Gospel Weeklies questions, they have done enough. In addition, the children have the enrichment activity to do from our website. This enrichment activity is an extra learning resource.* Our children in the Sacramental Preparation Classes (usually 2nd grade and 8th grade) have a SEPARATE Sacramental prep. class they must complete. Sacramental prep is entirely separate and parents should send those assignments directly to my email. If you should get a Sacramental Prep. assignment, please forward that to my email.* We are counting any and all submissions as the child's attendance for this school year. While we want our students to get the most out of their Religious Education as possible, some families are just not able to keep up and are doing the best they can under their circumstances. We want to be considerate of every family, knowing that each family has different circumstances to contend with. Keep encouraging families to keep up with the Gospel Weeklies questions in their child's packet, but accept any attempt.*Remember what letters of the Alphabet you are responsible for checking. Do not feel that you are responsible for every student in your grade levels. You have help!*Families are still sending in their student's assignments. Please keep checking in with your church emails. Some families started late or had a rough start and are a bit behind. Please just acknowledge you received their assignments (Don't forget to change the "To" recipient!) . We want to be as supportive to our families as we can in Christian Charity. The Pflaum website has NOT been easily navigated, and I have had some students working out of teacher books, enrichment workbooks and anything else you can think of on the website that is not the Gospel Weeklies. Adding to this general confusion are those who have had an issue with a password, or other technical issue with the Pflaum website itself, as well as connectivity issues.*Families Always have the option to pick up their child's physical copy (paper packet) of Gospel Weeklies either from me when I am in the office, or getting it from their child's folder that is kept on the table in the narthex (back of the church), or they can see me on Sunday mornings either directly before or directly after the 9 a.m. Mass. The ushers are fog cleaning our church after each Mass, so I am unable to stay in the building for long.I realize this is a long email! Sorry to send you such a long message all at once. If anyone has questions or needs help with the Remote Religious Education email please call or email me and let me know so we can try to work that out together.Thank you again for your help in persevering! We are all learning how to make this work together, and I will keep all of you in my prayers. Please pray for me too!God Bless,Joni KilgoreReligious Education Remote Learning Plan 2020-2021
We are SO grateful for your volunteering of your time and talent to help us keep our children in Religious Education connected and learning during this unprecedented time. Below is our remote learning plan, and various ways that we could use your help during our time away from the classroom.
We are using the Gospel Weeklies materials for all students (with their parent’s assistance) to continue to learn at home. These materials are available in an online format, as well as a physical copy that parents of registered children are able to pick up in the Church narthex on Sunday morning. Gospel Weeklies are grouped into the following grades: Promise is Grades K-1, Good News is for Grades 2-3, Venture is for grades 4-6 and Visions is for Grades 7-9.
Children will be completing the activities and questions included in their Gospel Weekly material weekly, but they are required to turn in their homework only ONCE a month. Families are able to turn in homework either by email OR by physically dropping off the completed work in the bin provided in the Church narthex on Sunday mornings following the 9AM Mass until 11AM.
We want to make continuing their child’s Religious Education as easy as possible for families who are already dealing with a lot of remote learning; therefore, this homework will be counted primarily as the children’s weekly attendance for this school year.
Below you will find the three main options for helping with Religious Ed this upcoming year. Please look over each of these options and select what will work best for you (you can select more than one if you'd like). We realize that each of you have different gifts and talents, so we are asking that you tell us your preference of what you would like to do for this upcoming school year.