I hope you are all staying safe and healthy during this time! My name is Claire, and I am the Echo Apprentice at Holy Spirit. As our schedules shift and we transition to religious education in the household, we are here to provide resources for you. It is especially important that you engage in faith formation with your children during this time. You all received make-up lessons from HSCC – overwhelmed on how to teach this to your children? Check out this article by Joe Paprocki, a consultant for Loyola Press, in his article “10 Tips for Teaching Religion Lessons to Your Children at Home”.

“In the midst of this COVID-19 threat, many parents find themselves in the position of doing a certain amount of homeschooling with their children, including teaching religion lessons that would normally be taught in Catholic schools or parish religious education programs. Teaching religion lessons is different from teaching other subject areas, because in faith formation, we do not teach a subject, we facilitate an encounter with Jesus Christ! With that in mind, here are 10 tips for teaching religion lessons to your children at home.

  1. Make this a priority. While your children have many lessons they need to keep up on at home during this crisis, do your best to make faith formation a priority. You can do this by setting aside a separate time from other lessons so that your children know that learning about Jesus is a priority.
  2. Look over the lesson. Before sitting down with your children to delve into their religion lessons, take a few moments to look over their assigned chapter(s) and become familiar with the concepts being taught. Reflect on what these concepts mean to you, how they affect your day-to-day living, and what stories or insights from your own life you can share to enhance the learning.”

See https://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2020/03/10-tips-for-teaching-religion-lessons-to-your-children-at-home/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loyolapress%2Fcj+%28Catechist%27s+Journey%29 to read the full article.

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