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Each morning during Lent, students enter the school and our classrooms quietly as music is playing. In place of their sentence writing morning work, students complete an entry in their Lenten Journal. The entry is displayed each day on the board and students write their answer in their journal. A sentence starter is also displayed if a student needs help getting started writing. Then, they draw a picture about their entry.
-Lauren Hall

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Integrating faith into a Reading lesson.

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This lesson can be used in Religion or Reading class to practice retelling the story of the Passion of Christ and sequencing  (LA.1.LRA.1). We read the story of Christ's death; depending on your Religion series you can use your textbook or another book (i.e. the Bible) to read the story together.  Depending on the abilities of the groups (we do this in small groups), we pause the lesson to fill out the chart, the students can fill out the chart together, or they complete the sequencing chart after the story.

~ Nicole Hayes

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Biography

I gave my kids a biography about a Saint of their choosing.

Then I called them back in small groups to read the biography once on their own and then I read it to them once in case they did not understand any of the words. We then talked about the person and recalled information about them. I then gave them a biography graphic organizer that I found for free on TPT. I numbered the organizer 1-5.

1. Born

2. Dead

3-5. Important Facts

We then went back into the biography and highlighted these facts and then wrote 1-5 next to the highlighted parts so they know where the fact goes. EX: Highlight born put a number 1 next to it and then it would go in the number one spot on the graphic organizer.

The kids then transferred their info from the biography to the graphic organizer.

I then printed a black and white picture of their person and they glued it in the middle of the white paper. They then separated their paper into four sections. #1&2 went into one spot, #3 in one spot, and so on.

They wrote it in pencil and then went over all pencil marks in sharpie. They then water colored over sections all a different color.

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I do the Daily 5 during our reading block.  For their writing center most weeks students retell a writing story. On Mondays in morning we read the story from our Children's bible. A few students practice retelling the story. The rest of the week in morning meeting, students take turns retelling the story to freshen everyones memory. During the writing center students practice writing
the story.  If they struggle to remember the story they can reread it in our bible or check in with a friend. The students also draw a picture to help them retell.
I review the story with students who struggled with details.

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Raquel Tripp
Holy Trinity School
At Holy Trinity, we completed a school-wide diversity project to help the students appreciate how we are more alike than we think and how our differences make us stronger. In first grade, our focus was on how, each day, our job is to use our unique, God-given gifts to make the world a better place. Students took time to think of their personal strengths, and specific ways they can use them to help others.

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Lighting the World with CHRIST's Light by Kelly Burns

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Lighting the World with CHRIST's Light by Kelly Burns

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At Holy Redeemer School,  we focus on the 4 C's  "Courtesy, Compassion,  Community and Commitment". During our compassion quarter, we read the story in our 'Christ our Life" Religion book Matthew 25:34-40 ("where did we see you Lord?") After,  we brainstormed ways we can show compassion to our family, friends and the community around us just as Jesus did. The students then wrote how they are compassionate to others. We integrated this lesson with teaching the components of sentence structure, capitalization and proper punctuation.

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Margaret Cavanaugh
St. Pius X Regional School
Everyday after we pray and read our kindness chart we read a bible story from our Day by Day book.  After we read it and discuss the lesson the story teaches,  we pray we can apply it throughout the day.....Great Book!!!

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Tammi Price
I absolutely love the Reading A to Z membership our school has.  I would use the Thanksgiving paper reader and worksheets for the week of Thanksgiving to incorporate with our Fall bulletin board and our whole school Mass.  Every day we always thank  God for so much that He has given us in our morning prayers as well.

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Tami Liberati
St. Pius X Regional School
I am a reading and math teacher for first grade without a homeroom so I don't teach actual lessons on religion.  I do, though, incorporate talk about Jesus continuously throughout the day and how He would handle certain situations within the first grade.  Attached is a weekly homework sheet that also incorporates the same WWJD Table Talk for the families at home  in hopes that the discussions carry to the dinner table.

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SS/Religion/Language Arts
Lori Carter and Alexis Prada
Saint Mary of the Mills

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Susan Feudale and
Annamaria Zimmerman
St Martin of Tours School
Gaithersburg MD

Based of the stories of Piggy and Elephant by Mo Willems

Students pair up and pick their character Piggy or Elephant and think of a place in school they would visit if they were on a tour and what would they see and
do.
The students write out there question and answer to each other and its posted as a speech bubble with the characters pictures.

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Saint Patrick Writing
Kelly Weeks Holy Cross School

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Reading Lesson

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Create a word bank of Easter words with the students. Use the word bank as an anchor chart displayed in your classroom for the children to incorporate into their writing. Write the Easter words on Easter eggs and hide around the room. Children will hunt for the words and sort them into the parts of speech baskets. When everyone is finished, go over the answers and create an anchor chart by calling on students to grab a hidden word and sort it into the correct basket.

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Using Repeated Reading of Prayers and Church Songs to Improve Reading Fluency and Develop Faith

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Using Repeated Reading of Prayers and Church Songs to Improve Reading Fluency and Develop Faith

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Alice Hale, St. Peter School DC

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This is a craft to use to present the Church's celebration of the Three Days before Easter.
St. Jude Regional Catholic School
Teresa Phillip

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"Love Cloud" - Great for Valentine's Day!

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"Love Cloud" - Great for Valentine's Day!

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Integrating Faith Before, During and After your Classroom Party

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Integrating Faith Before, During and After your Classroom Party

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Lesson Plan for Valentine Classroom Party, Barbara Ryba/maryofnazareth

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Lesson Plan for Valentine Classroom Party, Barbara Ryba/maryofnazareth

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The children will be able to identify fourteen objects in church.  We have two one week lessons on seven different objects.  We use the chapter  in our Religion books , Sadler, We Believe.  I make copies of pages for them to take home and study and write a letter explaining this to the parents.  We go to church and walk around looking at and discussing each object.  The assessment consists of a paper with the names of each object.  The children must find the numbered object in a picture on their paper and write the number next to the word.

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This is a Science lesson from the 1st grade teachers at St. Elizabeth School.

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This is a Science lesson from the 1st grade teachers at St. Elizabeth School.