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joshhackerspmdo
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This is my first year teaching PSR (5th and 6th grades) and no one has really seemed to light the fire for these kids and i want to change this and am looking for idea.
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Brenda_V
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This is a difficult age at best but the right person can indeed light that fire. I have to tell you that I overheard one of my students from last year (6th grade, two girls, eight boys in the class
) talking with another one about the upcoming election and why one should vote for McCain over Obama - I was so proud of him even though it wasn’t my class that taught him the value of life although my example may have - I volunteer at a CPC and I wasn’t shy about mentioning it.Okay, got that out of the way. Some of this has to do with homelife, teach them to pray the Rosary, say a decade every class time, they should know those basic prayers so you can do it in 5 minutes.
If possible get some of the older movies on the martyrs (sorry, I don’t know the names of them as I only saw them on the “Old Time Movie” slot 35 years or so ago!)
Approach them like Jesus did, with stories and parables - not dry catechism lessons. If your books you work with have stories in them, focus on those. if not, then you have to do a bit more work and read the lesson ahead of time and see if you can find a story that will teach the lesson.
I personally found the books I have ever worked with for this age level to be beyond boring and if I do as an adult what do they with their ‘everything is entertainment’ culture!
The biggest thing is for you to be praying for guidance - ask the Holy Spirit to guide your words and actions before every class session, if possible sit before the Blessed Sacrament either in an Adoration Chapel or the Tabernacle for 10 -15 minutes before every class.
Brenda V.
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