My Class Schedule

Given only 60 minutes namely 10:00 am to 11:00am every Friday , its imperative that we teachers have a Schedule to follow.

While we dont stick to it like the Army does, its good to have an outline to better moderate and help us prepare our Lesson Plans.

My Schedule goes something Like this:

1) Preparatory work - Arrange the class for kids. 

We normally make the kids sit on their chairs along the walls of the class. I arrange the tables in the centre. 

This way I have all the kids attention since they are not busy fidgetting with their bags, bottles etc. 

The rough Class diagram is as above. Chairs to the sides , Tables in the centre. The day I do decide to give them any activity they need to be doing on desks , i skip this step. 

2) Welcome- Greet students and welcome them to class. 2 minutes

3) Prayer – We begin the class with a prayer. 2 minutes

4) Review- Reminder of last week’s lesson and Morning Mass, the Sermon. 2 -5 minutes

5) Lesson & Home-work  – We cover the day’s lesson . Co-teachers helpcorrect the homework at this time. 30minutes

6) Attendance & Hand-out distribution- Fill out the Attendance Sheet, during this time , co-teachers distribute hand-outs to student according to Attendance Registry.  . 5 minutes

7) Closing Prayer & Action Song- We generally sing an action song , followed by a Closing prayer.

My first day as Class teacher

A new Catechism  year begins. 
The Catechism Ministry of St. Therese Church are as usual ...all ready to go....

We are excited to see new faces, the whole ministry has been on about new children joining us for a few months now. Over the past few days most have been sending out e-mails , reading new ones, re-reading them---all to make sure our little ones are A-Okay on their first day at Catechism. 

Prior to this, behind the scenes our very efficient Admin team have accepted Admissions , done all the leg work and sorted out all the kids in 5 different sections for Grade 1 alone. 

Parents full of trust and smiles bring their 5 year olds to my class.What joy , what fun ....and among them.....what fear!!!

But we have been expecting this....and so we start with a fun action song. 

I taught my kids 2 action songs 

a) If you're happy and you know it -

(that was a real ice breaker - finally i saw some smiles!!!) 

followed by Introductions. We (my co-teachers and I ) told the kids how much we would love to see them at every class and every Friday Mass. 

5 year olds are very hard to keep occupied, so as soon as we saw shuffling feet and signs of restlessness, we broke out into another Action Song 

b) I'm in the Lord's Army

(ALL absolutely all my kids LOVE this action song. The boys love this the most!!)

I explain to the kids that they are part of an elite group- Jesus's very own personal army. 


I love to hear my Kids talk - they are always encouraged to talk - we ask them about Jesus . 


Me: Do you'll know who Jesus is? 

Kids : YES!!!!!

Me: Well, really !! That's good. Who is He? 

Kids: He is Our God!!!

Me: Awesome....who is God? 

Kids: He made us!!!

Me: That's  so true- I have the most amazing Kids in my Class . 

(We, the teachers applaud them - and my kids are beaming) 

Me: So does anyone here know the Our Father

(Lots of hands went up) 

Me: Wow..what about the Sign of the Cross

(Again, amy more hands up) 

Me: Thats brilliant - Shall we try it now ? 

(And my faithful little volunteers, with a little help from the teachers - stand up. We taught them the Sign of the Cross very briefly because by then an hour was almost up and we had take their attendance plus hand them over little handouts) 

Most of my class have a good idea of what is required of them in Grade 1. We will have to brush them up more. 

The Next Class will be the Sign of the Cross and Jesus the greatest Teacher. 


Portion for Next Class: 

Prayer - Sign of the Cross

Bible Reading - Luke 4: 42-44 - Jesus the Great Teacher.