Mrs. Bernia's Classroom

Ext. 147

St. Augustine Catholic School spreads the good news by navigating a Christian Course, educating body, mind, and spirit, worshipping the Lord and serving others.

Email address mbernia@staugustinecatholicschool.com

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Classroom happenings!

All of the junior high students began working on their "Mission Statement," this week. Our design is a compass to direct us on our journey to navigate, educate, worship, and serve the Lord and others!

I am looking forward to the final product and will post each class to the site! Imagine what they will decide to follow and embrace in mission, especially the creative 1and loving minds that God has given to each student! We will put the final details on the mission statements on Monday and post later in the week! Each statement will be posted to the homeroom sites.

As we enter our first full week of October don't forget to pay attention to the colors in God's creation, the fall season is one of the most beautiful season our God continues to share with us!

Important reminders for this week:

6th and 7th grade chapter 3 test on Tuesday, 8th grade on Wednesday.

8th grade students will visit Cardinal Mooney on Tuesday, October 6th from 9-1pm.

7th and 8th grade students will visit Austin Catholic High School on Thursday, October 8th.

Friday, October 9th, students wear "House Colors." Remember to bring your $1.00 for points and for the important fight, "Kids against Hunger."

Girls home volleyball game on Wednesday, October 7th; home game at Holy Family;

JV @ 6:00pm/ Varsity at 7:00pm.

" GO SAINTS!"

CLASSROOM NEWS:

Our Specials!

Monday: Art, Library

Tuesday: Music, Gym, Spanish, Technology

Wednesday: Spanish

Thursday: Music, Technology

Friday: Art

Weekly classroom plans for this week!

6th grade students will journey with God this week and look at many different relationships within the history of God and his people. Some individual relationships we will look at: Adam and Eve, their children Cain and Abel. Noah's family, and the community involved in the story of "The Tower of Babel." As we take a closer look at each story, we will examine a few facts; how original sin effected our relationship with God and each other, the events of the stories, and the 4- levels each can be understood. 1st: Sacredness of human life, 2nd: separation of human beings, 3rd: respect for others and life, 4th: healing power of God. We will go back to our responsibility to be good stewards of creation, our respect for all of God's creation, and be able to see all the stories of division with God and each other began with original sin and how God's healing power and promise of a savior changed everything! It will be an exciting week!

7th grade students will finish their presentations on the Trinity, the importance of evangelization, and the importance of keeping a covenant.

We will look at why laws are important, God's providence, and why is Jesus the greatest revelation of God. (For some reason all students forget this very important revelation!) We will study the New or Great Commandment of Jesus, our relationships and the importance of the common good.

8th grade students will finished teaching each other the importance of the 1st through the 5th commandments from the CCC, discovering how in depth each commandment is and how we should think about our actions and behaviors in our daily lives. We will continue to build on our discipleship by looking at what God has given us to strenghthen us in our knowledge and abilities to live as a disciple of Jesus. We will explore the Commandments, virtues (both cardinal and theological) gifts of the Holy Spirit, fruits of the Spirit, beatitudes, all leading to the corporal and spiritual works. In addition what feeds us to live this life, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and most importantly the reception of the sacraments.

I am looking forward to this week and it looks like God is going to give us a great week of weather!

Blessings for your week!

" Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." St Frances of Assisi

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