OBJECTIVES AND HOMEWORK - Week 11 - DEC. 12-13

GRADE ONE - Advent

• Children will review the story of the Annunciation and Visitation
• Children will review the Liturgical Calendar
• Children will add a purple page for Advent in their Book Without Words.
• Children will understand Advent as a time of waiting when we remember how people had to wait for a savior
• Children will have the opportunity to decorate a frame for a holy picture.

SAC PREP TWO - The Christmas Story

• Children will have the opportunity to review the Christmas story through story and music.
• Children will make Christmas cards for the homebound.

HOMEWORK: – Enjoy the vacation!

GRADE THREE - The Fourth Commandment

• Students will look up and read the Fourth Commandment
• Students will explore the concept of “Honor”
• Students will make specific plans to practice honoring their parents this week
• Students will understand the Holy Family is a model family
• Students will make a Holy Family Christmas ornament.

HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 11 in the book with your parents and discuss it. Remember your “honor” cards!

GRADE FOUR - The Mother of God

• Students will become familiar with some titles of Mary
• Children will understand that Mary cares for them
• Children will decorate a box to keep their rosary in

HOMEWORK: Do the "Titles of Mary" puzzle, if it was not completed in class.

GRADE FIVE - The Communion of Saints

• Students will review various aspects of the Eucharist, Eucharist as meal, sacrifice, liturgy, sacrament, worship.
• Students will be presented with the concept of Communion of Saints
• Students will recognize the Eucharist as a celebration that unifies all of God’s people.
• Students will begin to appreciate the sign value of bread.

HOMEWORK: Write the answers to the “We Review” section at the bottom of page 50.
With help from a parent, put together the Mass booklets from the back of your textbooks. Bring
it to class after vacation.

GRADE SIX - Covenant

• Students will become familiar with the form of a covenant in the Old Testament
• Students will be familiar with God’s covenant with Abram
• Students will think about the meaning of faith.

HOMEWORK: * Read the quotations on your worksheets. Give an explanation of each one and an example, if you can. * Read page 46 in your textbook.

GRADE SEVEN - The Nativity

• Every student will be able to relate the Nativity story.
• Students will know that stories of Jesus’ birth occur only in Matthew and Luke.
• Students will compare the Nativity presentations in the two Gospels.
• Students will do drawings of the Nativity as represented in one or the other Gospel.

HOMEWORK: Complete the worksheet.

GRADE EIGHT - Parables and Miracles

• Students will experience the joy of "hearing a story".
• Students will understand that a parable is a story that relies on a simile.
• Students will learn a simple way to approach the parables.
• Students will have the opportunity to briefly look at a number of different parables.

HOMEWORK: Have a happy Christmas!