Welcome back Middle Schoolers to another year at Holy Spirit. We have an exciting Religion curriculum planned for you. Grade level packets were distributed at Back to School night a couple of weeks ago. If you were not able to attend please ask your child to ask me for one to bring home.
Each of the Middle School grade levels have different Religion standards. Many overlap from year to year. Then many of our extra requirements are basically the same for each grade level. All the students have a Religion folder that they keep with their Social Studies binder, since our classes are back to back. So far we have completed a couple of daily Bible readings and reflections. The students have also completed some activities that have gone along with Pope Francis' daily tweet. The students have also planned for the weekly Masses.
Some of the requirements for all the students are: notes and vocabulary, monthly current events, daily Bible reading, tests and quizzes, Mass preparation, memorized prayer, Saint reports, and service projects. We have had a sign up for babysitting for the PTO meetings and the PTO book club. The students who signed up were asked to check these dates with their parents to confirm they will be there.
I believe they might get a reminder phone call also.
I will be sending home Religion homework and updates by E-mail almost every night. Please feel free to e-mail me with any questions or concerns. jgutzwiller@holyspirit-indy.org
This week we have been Benchmarking in Religion class. 99% of all the students should be completed by tomorrow.
You are all invited to attend our 8:30 Mass tomorrow. 8 Gold has the readings so it would be nice for you to come and participate in the liturgy with us.
God Bless you all,
Keep Calm and Have Faith
Mrs. Gutzwiller
