Mrs. Kola’s classroom happenings - from School Newsletter Oct 23 2012

Mrs. Kola’s classroom happenings:

 

Life is good!  Wowie Zowie!  Yippe Skippy! -- We have our first ever American Indian Saint, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha.  She was declared a saint JUST TWO DAYS AGO, Sunday Oct 21, 2012!   She has been the focus of some class discussion in the upper grades Religion classes.  We are watching the canonization coverage from Rome and watching a movie/documentary on St. Kateri in Gr 7/8, and reading her story in Gr 6.  I am happy to loan out the DVD to any adults who would like to borrow it.

 

Thanks to some student help, we have an image of St. Kateri on the school doors heading out to recess.  Megan Kola & Alex Schmidt traced the image and Emma Nockerts did an amazing job coloring it in.  Stop by to see it if you have a chance.  This image will remain on the door for years to come (hopefully)!

Gr 6-8 has been participating in 40 Days for Life, by fasting and praying for an end to Abortion.  This is a worldwide program and over the past 5 years has accounted for over 6,000 babies lives saved.  If you are not aware of the program, please check it out at 40DaysForLife.com.  This campaign runs from Sept 26 – Nov 4^th…. so those pre-teens that gave up candy will really be sacrificing come Halloween night!

 

Gr 6-8 hopes you can join us this Friday Oct. 26 at 1:30 PM at St. Paul church to pray the rosary for the intention of a greater respect for life.  October is the month of the Rosary and Respect Life month. 

With the upcoming election at hand, the 8^th graders have been looking over last week’s edition (Oct 12, 2012) of the Compass Newspaper (our GB Diocesan newspaper) and reading up on the moral issues we are faced with this election. 

 

Earlier this fall the 8^th graders took a field trip to the Monastery of the Holy Name of Jesus.  We attended 7 AM mass (that was early!) with the cloistered nuns on the Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux.  This is a very special day for the nuns, as it is a patron saint of theirs.  Fr. Daniel Schuster, director of vocations at the GB Diocese, said mass and joined us for breakfast at D&G Restaurant afterwards.  It was a priceless experience to learn beforehand about the lives of cloistered nuns and then to be present with them for mass. 

 

There is so MUCH good stuff going on in Gr 6-8 … too much to mention…, this is only a glimpse of what we have been up to.