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Faith Facts for Young Catholics: Drills, Games and Activities for Middle School Students
Are you searching for a resource that makes learning the Catechism fun? Faith Facts for Young Catholics is an excellent resource for middle school Catechists. The activities for learning the ten commandments are engaging and encourage application to every day life. Scripture quote games are great tools for getting our Catholic kids to memorize and apply scripture. All in all Kieran has put together a great resource that I highly recommend for all middle school catechism classes.
Faith Facts for Young Catholics: Drills, Games and Activities for Middle School Students
I thought there would be more different topics for the drills, there are probably only 7 topics and each topic has 3 or more different ways of using the drills. I do like the Flash card concept. We have went away from memorizing and it is another good tool to learn with.
Faith Facts for Young Catholics: Drills, Games and Activities for Middle School Students
I bought this for my PSR class, and it includes a lot of topics and games that we don't regularly cover in the book supplied.Great resource! Only thing I would suggest is getting the spiral bound book, easier to make copies
It's Raining Laughter
Poems & photos, bursting with life, on subjects from getting teased to being tickled, from loving old friends to hating new glasses; often hilarious, clever & insightful. Children after my own heart! The photographs accompanying the poems in this lovely, vivid book are enchanting, thoughtful & deeply instructive. Children laughing, leaping & loving, alive! Celebrating running, reading, being in action & in poetry...
A wild thing (Bantam Pathfinder Editions)
I first read this book when I was 13, and throughout my life I have always made sure to have a copy. The book is out of print, and finding copies are difficult, so if you find one, grab it.The story is of Morag, a fifteen-year-old girl who is, as the book puts it, "retarded by circumstance". She's sullen, angry, and rendered so by her early experiences of a delinquent mother, a succession of foster homes, and the cruelty of a world that seems to have no place for her. The story is of Morag's flight from her latest foster home to live in the hills and forests of Scotland, a dream she has been coaxing into reality for some time. The going is at first predictably rough: she has difficulty building a fire, finding shelter, providing herself with food. But as weeks turn into months, she becomes a part of the forest, and wonderful things happen: she finds a cave to make into her home, adopts two goats that provide her with milk (and frustrating lessons of butter and cheese making), and discovers a natural supply of salt at the nearby ocean.The self-discoveries she makes are the truly important ones, however, and her self-imposed isolation makes it possible for her to slow down her thinking, her responses, her emotions. In a large sense she regains the sanity that she never felt was in her grasp before. She also makes discoveries about her own sexuality, which opens the story to turn off into two other avenues: one, worship towards a skeleton she finds one day in the woods, and the second, saving the life of an injured rock climber that turns into much more than either of them had bargained for.I've always thought this would make an excellent movie: more of an Indie film, shot in Scotland, of course, with an extraordinary girl in the role of Morag. She would have to be an extraordinary actress indeed, because Morag is so multi-faceted a person. It would never be a mainstream film, because there are few people in it, a huge shortage of dialogue, and the pathos that exist are almost entirely of a psychological nature.This book is just so marvelous.
A wild thing (Bantam Pathfinder Editions)
As a troubled 14-year-old, locked away in a Louisiana reform school, I discovered this masterpiece of empathy and the cycle of life and death on a lower shelf, covered with dust and unread (according to the yellowed card) for more than 12 years. I can unreservedly claim that "A Wild Thing" is the underlying reason that I never returned to that horrid place and learned to make my own way. A sullen, selfish girl is lost in a wilderness she claims as her hermetic home where she discovers the strength and beauty within herself and the power that comes from self-reliance and acceptance. No happy endings, no sap, and definitely NO male hero needed to come to the rescue. Just a powerful adventure that is a vehicle for a profound, life-changing message. A rare and wonderful jewel of a book, if you can find it.