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Of Children and Church: I Wish I Could Be There

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Thursday, June 21, 2012. I Wish I Could Be There. Earlier this year, we did a presentation of the Mystical Supper work. We sat down on the rug as a group, and listened while one of the teachers read about the Mystical Supper from the Holy Gospel. After she finished, she took out 13 icon figures - 12 disciples and Christ, a table, and small models of a chalice and loaf of bread. I wish I could be there.". But you are there! Every Sunday, you get to go to the Mystical Supper.". That way, when the child doe...

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Of Children and Church: 2013

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Posted by Anna Chilcote McDonald. June 15, 2013 at 1:07 PM. Alicia in New Zealand. February 7, 2014 at 11:20 AM. As you can see, Ive done it again. This time I moved (again) and got pregnant and have become generally unproductive in life (all I want to do is sleep! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Orthodox Christian Spiritual Formation Teacher Education Center. Montessori Teacher Education Center. There was an error in this gadget. A Few Excellent Books.

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Of Children and Church: Be Like the Little Children

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Monday, August 6, 2012. Be Like the Little Children. Back when I was a catechumen, I nannied for a family with 4 daughters (now 5). One evening, I was standing in the living room talking to their mother when the youngest at the time (she was 2 1/2) came up to me and started pulling on my arm. She was saying something, but I don't know what it was. Maria Montessori tells us 2 1/2 year olds are still working with an unconscious mind. They don't deliberately recall information in order to make connectio...

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Of Children and Church: Geography of Israel

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Monday, June 17, 2013. In a regular Montessori environment, there's an area of the room dedicated to Geography. In it, one finds globes, puzzle maps, pictures of foreign countries and people, land and water forms, etc. It's a sequence that spans the entirety of the 3 years the child spends in the Primary (ages 3-6) classroom. The very first presentation is done using a Sandpaper Globe, on which the water is painted blue, and the land is covered in sandpaper. The Relief Map of Israel. The Relief Map of Is...

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Of Children and Church: Icon Figures

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Monday, June 17, 2013. Two of the areas of the Catechism environment, Parables and Life of Christ, involve icon figures used as visual aids while reading the children the parables and the major events of Christ's life from the Gospels. These icon figures are made by isolating individual figures in an icon, printing them out, and mounting them on a thick, flat piece of wood carved to imitate the shape of the saint (or Christ) being mounted. Posted by Anna Chilcote McDonald. A Few Excellent Books.

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Of Children and Church: June 2013

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Monday, June 17, 2013. In a regular Montessori environment, there's an area of the room dedicated to Geography. In it, one finds globes, puzzle maps, pictures of foreign countries and people, land and water forms, etc. It's a sequence that spans the entirety of the 3 years the child spends in the Primary (ages 3-6) classroom. The very first presentation is done using a Sandpaper Globe, on which the water is painted blue, and the land is covered in sandpaper. The Relief Map of Israel. The Relief Map of Is...

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Of Children and Church: June 2012

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Friday, June 22, 2012. Everybody Knows How to Love God. A few days ago, I was sitting in a classroom at Hellenic College and listening to Catherine Varkas give a lecture on Baptism, the nous, and the spiritual nature/development of children. She started by simply quoting the Philokalia, "The spiritual faculty, the nous, of the baptized infant knows God through immediate experience". We all sat and tried to absorb that concept, contemplating the many ways it presents itself in our Church and in our work.

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Of Children and Church: July 2012

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Saturday, July 7, 2012. Last week, I had the pleasure of assisting Catherine Varkas in exhibiting her course, Orthodox Christian Spiritual Formation, at the 2012 Clergy-Laity Congress of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Our particular approach to transmitting the beauty and essence of Orthodoxy to the young children (3-6 year olds) is based pedagogically. On the methodology and observations of Maria Montessori and Sophia Cavaletti, theologically. It went a little something like this:. If the pe...