Glue, Giggles and Grace: The Poor Man of Assisi

Monday, October 3, 2011

The Poor Man of Assisi

Celebrating St. Francis

We were blessed with another perfect day to be outside celebrating the Feast of St. Francis (although this year, it only worked into our school schedule to celebrate him a day early!).

The munchkins enjoyed reading all the wonderful legends from Tomie dePaola's Francis: The Poor Man of Assisi. They especially loved, as was expected, the story of the wolf at Gubbio, as well as learning about how much Francis loved birds and all other animals.

We had all sorts of fun projects that filled the day, including a little diorama of the saint surrounded by all his "brothers" and "sisters" (animal stickers).

Then there was the coloring page, which the munchkins really did a nice job with. Many of them even included the wounds of Christ on his hands (after seeing this in a classroom icon that we have).

And then came the best part...well, unless you count the snack we had at the end of the day (but we'll get to that!).

We all went outside and made little bird feeders to hang in the trees around the rectory.

We strung a yarn hanger through a piece of toast and stuffed the toast with sunflower seeds. They turned out very cute.

Then munchkins had such fun finding a low hanging branch to attach them to. Although, I will say, after the trimming that was done to all the trees this fall, it was quite hard to find branches low enough for these cuties to reach!