Our Lady of Fatima

The Day the Sun Danced

Our Lady of Fatima falls on Saturday this year, and Father has a wonderful Rosary Rally planned for the parish...so to get the munchkins ready for this big event, we spent a day learning all about Francisco, Lucia and Jacinta.

We created a fun "dancing sun" and colored a beautiful image of Our Lady as she may have appeared to the children. 

We also watched "The Day the Sun Danced" with the First Grade.

(and shared some "dancing sun" cookies with them!)

Of course, being Friday, we ended our day with an all-school Rosary. 

Very fitting!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

Happy Birthday Mary!

A Special Birthday

Our school celebrated the Nativity of Mary with a special afternoon birthday party, complete with cake.  Our class enjoyed celebrating with the first and third graders. 

The cake was super yummy...

But unfortunately, we only had a handful of munchkins at school that afternoon. 

It was a special way to dedicate the afternoon to Our Blessed Mother.

~  Happy Birthday, Mary  ~

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.



Our First Feast Day

The Queenship of Mary

What a great way to start learning the feasts of our beautiful liturgical year!  Today we celebrated the Queenship of Mary.

(Thanks to Charlotte for the beautiful coloring image.)

We ended our mid-week activities with an end-of-the-day snack to represent Mary on the clouds of heaven.  This was a quick and easy first recipe of the year, but the munchkins enjoyed placing their teddy graham Mary in the center of the donut cloud and sprinkling it with heavenly Marian blue sprinkles.  Of course, they loved eating it even more!

I'm sure it's the start of another year of wonderful Wednesday afternoon recipes and yummy fun!

Mary, Queen of Heaven, Our Mother ~ Pray for Us!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

The Feast of the Annunciation

She Said Yes!

The Feast of the Annunciation falls on a Lenten Sunday this year, so it will be officially celebrated on Monday, March 26.  We decided to end our week by preparing for the feast day, even though we are a few days early.

We revisited our Atrium infancy narrative box with the beautiful pieces for retelling the Annunciation story.  Then we sang one of our favorite little songs: She Said Yes

We also re-read the story from one our many Bibles.

(The munchkins love to read from different Bibles!)

Then we were on to the fun part.  Anything that includes glitter is fun, right?

The munchkins traced and cut their hands and one foot (yes, with the shoe off and everything!). 

All the pieces were assembles to create what could be considered an angel!

(Although, many of the munchkins decided it looked more like a turkey!)

We added a pretty glittered halo, though.  Then it looked more like Gabriel!  We also added a prayer to the back.  The munchkins began learning The Angelus after Christmas break and now THEY KNOW IT!  So, this was the perfect project to add it to...

As the munchkins finished, they had the chance to color the beautiful image of Gabriel and Mary from our atrium work folder.

And then my camera battery gave out!  I guess it was time to stop taking pictures...

How sad!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

Our Lady of Lourdes

I Am the Immaculate Conception

During February, we take a day to celebrate Our Lady and learn all about the little girl, Bernadette, who was so beautifully blessed with visions of Mary at Lourdes.  I was excited this year to be able to show the munchkins some Holy

Water from Lourdes, as my niece made a pilgrimage there recently.

We read the story of Bernadette and created some fun projects to help us remember this feast day...

This one is a little stick grotto with blue jewels for the spring and a lovely holy card of Mary and Bernadette.

And this one was a paper grotto with an image of Mary that the munchkins colored themselves, using the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes from our Atrium as a model (right down to the yellow roses on her feet!).

We decided to write in our journals about Mary and Bernadette this year and the entries were wonderful.  The illustrations were just a beautiful!

I love the detail!

Some of the munchkins continued to think about Bernadette and Mary during their free time at centers too...

This is the first time I've seen a Marian grotto created from pattern blocks at the math center!  Very creative and so inspired!

Do you see Mary?

Our snack for this special day was lots of fun too (especially those that actually stayed standing!)

Like these...

Our Lady of Lourdes, Pray for us!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

Our Lady of Guadalupe

St. Juan & Our Lady

After hearing the wonderful story of St. Juan, the munchkins did a wonderful job of recreating the vision of Our Lady as seen by him. 

Then the munchkins added them to paper tilmas.

Adding tissue roses was the finishing touch!

Happy Feast of St. Juan Diego!

St. Juan & Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pray for us!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

Our Lady of the Rosary

Celebrating Our Lady

Although we didn't have school on the actual Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, we took some time to celebrate this beautiful day as a class before our day off. 

We colored a lovely Rosary booklet, which included an image of Mary and all the mysteries.

The munchkins also enjoyed creating a little Rosary cup for holding  their special beads.

But the most fun of the day came near the end...

We took the time to discuss all the beautiful prayers of the Rosary, even counting how many of each there are.  It was easy when we added marshmallows and mini oreos to the mix!

The munchkins all did a great job counting the correct number of marshmallows to represent the Hail Mary prayers.

With the correct number of marshmallows, it was easy to create an entire edible Rosary! 

Isn't it lovely?

And delicious!

Doesn't he look like the cat that swallowed the canary marshmallows?!

YUM!

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Pray for us sinners,

Now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.