Solemnity of St Peter & St Paul

Feast of St Peter & St Paul was celebrated yesterday. We read little bit about them. St Peter is the patron saint of foot trouble. 

Then the children had the option to color the illustrations from Waltzing matilda and St Paul image kind.

Munnu’s coloring

                                              

Learned about the symbolism of of the shields, which initially thought of making a Barque of Peter, The fisherman, but couldnt do that.

Key is the symbol of St peter, authority of church's papacy and authority to choose and bind. One key shows the closed door to the unrepentant sinner and the other shows the opened door to the repentant sinner to heaven.

The below shield is of st paul and sword is assigned to him as he was a great persecuter of chrisians and the book  is a symbol of his conversion into a great preacher.

Game

St Pauls journey to Rome

Annu and Munnu did the maze which was an interesting one, though munnu took time to reach Rome.

Holy Apostles Peter & Paul ,Pray for us. 

Nativity Of St John The Baptist June 24

     "prepare the way for the lord"

When time came Elizabeth gave birth to her son, Lord has shown great mercy to her. It is the birthday celebration of  St John the Baptist. Sometimes called as Summer Christmas. On this day people traditionally do some outdoor grilling, bonfire,picnic, dance, singing and make secial foods.www.catholic culture.org

Actually  we didnt get much time to prepare for this day, but things happened in such a way that children could have some outdoor BBQ with our friends, played sometime.

A country side visit

It was a very sunny day .So we thought of going for a countryside visit which Annu and munnu wants to have a bike ride and a walk. Ended up in The Carr which is a beautiful country side.

We had a good walk. There was a little stream of water , childen enjoyed playing in the cold water, was so fun to them and munnu would love to come back again, though therese didnt want to go into water.

Montessori Approach

Maria Montessori was an Italian doctor who believed that young children could learn better and more quickly in a school environment that didn’t feel like a school. Hallmarks of Montessori schools include child-appropriate furniture, older children teaching younger children, and lesson plans that are invisible to the pupils.

Typically, Montessori teachers help children into and out of learning experiences, at their own pace. If a 10-year-old girl is enjoying long division, for instance, she can do long division all day. No bell will ring. Spelling can wait, until next week if necessary. www.boston.com

St Anthony Of Padua

It was really nice to know more about this wonderful saint on his feast day.

Something new came to me when we were reading about saint.  Tonsure which is the name of the franciscan haircut of shaving part of their head. St Anthony did have the  tonsure. See...

              An  AWESOME SAINT.

                                    Books

Children read some of  the below books about st.anthony, amazing miracles, great stories for children to tell .

Games

Since St Anthony is the patron saint of lost things, we planned to do some Outdoor Scavenger hunt. 

 Downloaded the scavenger hunt copies from shower of roses. Annu and Munnu went outside to hunt things

 around which was found to be very interesting. Children tried to find out many things. It was a nice time though it was a rainy day .  

St Anthony of padua pray for us.

Feast of St Anthony

As we celebrate this great saint's feast day today on June 13,  who is also called as The wonder worker, The great miracle worker and as pope Leo 12th said the Saint of the world. St. Anthony is one of my favourite saints as prayers are always heard so amazingly. Best wishes to all antony's on this day.

"Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft."  St Anthony.

It is said that St Anthony was an amazing preacher and one legend shows that even the fishes rose from water to listen to his preaching.

Because of St Anthonys history of been invoked by a single woman who was searching for husband, it is a good day for those who have a vocation to marriage to to visit a church dedicate to St Anthony .


From St Anthony of  padua  website

Learning 3D Shapes

Children made a pyramid shape with paper.Then they marked edges, vertices and face with different colors to differentiate the parts. Cool to learn the parts of 3D with this hands on craft.

Solemnity of The Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus & feast day of Immaculate heart

Just wanted to do some craft with our little ones for this beautiful feast day of Sacred Heart.

We used some felt fabric  bought from the craft store. First simply hand drew the red heart shapes and bits and pieces for the hearts.

For the sacred Heart of Jesus

A large red heart felt
Orange fire shape
From a different color brown, cut little sticks to make the crowns
Few drops of blood from red felt.


We read about this wonderful feast which falls 19 days after pentecost, been through the story of st. Margaret Mary Alacoque who promoted the devotion to the sacred heart of Jesus in its modern form.


We really liked the coloring page  which Munnu used to paint. Took litany of  sacred Heart and prayed during the time of  craft work. Theresu did enjoy her own messy work with  paint.

                                                      Munnu's work

                                        

                                          Annu's felt sacred heart

I wanted to talk through the symbolic meaning of the images and the each  part of image which found to be very devotional. 


It was really beautiful to go through the 12 promises of Sacred Heart. In the end  our little altar was decorated with their pictures.

 Such a wonderful feast day.

                                             Immaculate Heart

We couldnt get much time to do on the feast of immaculate heart other than the coloring sheets. However we were able to go for H.mass as  family and had novena of Our lady of perpetual help.

Feast of CORPUS CHRISTI

Children learnt about this feast, read from LUke gospel 9 about the miracleof  Jesus feeding five thousand. This is one of the miracles found in all gospels. Created the monstrance remembering body of Christ, went for holy hour which pope asked everyone to follow. It was an amazing day .

Family BArbecque

We had a good family time after coming from our holidays. Children had a beautiful time esp anu,munnu  n theresu  helped with barbeque.

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