Our first year students have had a great first quarter and have learned a great deal. From learning that Jesus truly is their friend to understanding that our God is Three Persons in One to learning all about Advent and the Christmas story we have covered a lot of ground in the last three months. Parents, please remember to reinforce at home all we’ve learned in the classroom. A couple of minutes reviewing their weekly lessons and then reminding them of the lesson throughout the week sure helps little ones learn.

And while we’re on reminders, please remember to have your child to class on time. Getting a prompt start to the morning ensures we have time to go over all we need to cover each week.

Congratulations go out to all the students for the hard work and faithful service to others they have shown through both the drive for the HCA as well as bringing in baby articles for Birthline. The practical lessons they are learning now about helping others are just as important as what we learn in the classroom. We need to not only learn our faith but live it as well and our students have done a great job of both.

As a final note, we hope to see each of you in Sunday Mass. Learning the catechism doesn’t do us much good if we don’t as a minimum practice on Sundays.

[Submitted by Yolanda Siddons]