MADISON — So, what do you think most teenagers do during the summer? Sleep in? Head to the beach? Hang out with friends?
All of that may be true. I hope it is true — summer is summer, after all.
But summer is also a time to serve: to be the “light of Christ” in the world and to be “Sent Forth by the Spirit.”
Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Madison has students that serve all year long: as ushers, altar servers, cantors, leaders of the Children’s Liturgy of the Word, etc.
JANESVILLE — St. Patrick Parish, Janesville’s oldest Catholic parish, is hosting open houses in August to introduce the wide variety of educational options open to area parents, including a new homeschool ministry.
Located at 305 Lincoln St. in Janesville, the parish school will offer tours and information about available programs to area families after all weekend Masses the weekend of August 5 to 6.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two Destination ImagiNation (DI) teams from Sacred Hearts School in Sun Prairie qualified at the recent state tournament for the Global Finals in Knoxville, Tenn.
The two teams were made up of middle school students, who joined students from 48 states and 30 countries for the Global Finals, which ran May 24 to 27 at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville. In all, over 8,000 students competed in seven different challenge categories.
Sacred Hearts School is in its ninth year of providing this after-school co-curricular to fourth through eighth graders.
St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Waunakee completed the second year of its Positive Character Development Program this past school year.
BELOIT — It’s music to Adam Gracyalny’s ears even though songbooks and choral singing are replaced by Chromebooks and lively conversation in the music room at Our Lady of the Assumption (OLA) Grade School.
Gracyalny, who is the OLA music teacher, changes hats to conduct Code Club meetings. About 40 students in kindergarten through eighth grade are learning how to write code, how to create simple objects with 3D printing, and how basic concepts can empower them to do many things with a computer.
On April 21, 4K through second grade students from Blessed Trinity School in Dane took a field trip to Ripp’s Dairy Valley Farm in Dane.
MADISON — From April 24 to April 28, Blessed Sacrament School in Madison celebrated the Week of the Young Child.
The Week of the Young Child is an annual celebration hosted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children celebrating early learning, young children, their teachers and families.
VERONA — Now in its second year, the High School Ministry program at St. Christopher Parish in Verona is striving to be a community where all teens can be heard, feel like they belong, and form authentic friendships through discussions, prayer, study, and social activities.
The program is a separate entity from the parish’s Confirmation program for teens, who are confirmed in the fall of their 10th grade year.
For Youth Ministry and Confirmation Coordinator Doug Ulaszek, High School Ministry is about the teens “being formed beyond Confirmation” and striving to “change the mentality” from teens being done with their faith formation following the Sacrament of Confirmation.
BELOIT — Apple cores and banana peels had a special use following a recent snack time for Our Lady of the Assumption School (OLA) first graders.
Students recycled the organic materials by putting them into a worm bin. It was part of the first grade curriculum unit about soil, recycling, and composting.
OLA first grade teacher Cynthia Welte said, “I really enjoy environmental science so I felt this project would be perfect.”
MADISON — Totus Tuus is a summer Catholic youth program dedicated to sharing the Gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through evangelization, catechesis, Christian witness, and Eucharistic worship.
Our week-long Parish Summer Catechetical Program and Summer Camps assist parents and parishes in the evangelizing and catechizing of their youth by supplementing the work they are already doing.
