Parent Expectations Catholic Refresher Course Required Parent(s) are required to attend the monthly Catholic Refresher class that is offered during your child’s class time. One week the class will be offered in Spanish and the following week in English. We want to encourage both parents/guardians to attend if possible. We want to empower you as the main and most influential teacher in your child’s life to help you and them live your faith. We are blessed to help guide and walk alongside you and your family. Parents, you will be put into a Catholic Refresher flocknote group, so be looking for those flocknotes.
A minimum of 15 class credits in person and a maximum of 3 make-up classes. 1 Spring class will be a home lesson. Students receive credit for the in-person class by attending class and do not need to turn in anything if they were present.
CatholicBrain- every student will need to sign-up for CatholicBrain. It is a Catholic Kids website. It has tons of resources, games, and videos. Many of our lessons use videos from the CatholicBrain website. Parents will receive an email with login instructions.Please feel free to use it on your own.
There are 3 Explore Four Categories: Service, Faith Practice, and Social. (see Chart) Students need 1 from Service, 1 from Faith Practice, and 1 from Social to complete the year. An Online Reflection Form needs to be completed to receive the Explore Four Credit. The Link to this form can be found on the Explore Four Webpage, your weekly flocknotes, or the direct link below. Direct Link:
18 Lessons17 of the lessons will be from the Faith Fusion book you were given.
1st Lesson is the Welcome, Virtus lessons, and Introduction.
We will be following the Our Catholic Faith book and completing chapters in book order except for a few exceptions. Please see the outline for the lesson schedule. Do not panic when you see the number of pages there are to complete. The book is bilingual, so the pages double.
8 lessons: 1st semester thru December
10 Lessons: 2nd Semester thru May
Materials for Class
Faith Fusion textbook
Yellow Folder
Folders
Students will be taking home the “With My Family” page from the Chapter/Lesson covered in class each week in their folders. We encourage students and parents to take 10 mins that week and go over the page together. We also want to encourage families to use the prayer in the “Praying Together” portion and pray it daily until the next class. It is vital to start those daily faith habits with your child.
Folders will also have copies of prayers and other important papers in them. Please check after each class.