tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82471552737044276882024-02-19T13:51:38.232-08:00RE Teacher- Catholic Religious Education ResourcesCatholic Religious Education Class, Lesson and Craft ideasMaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-13233781515160150402014-01-06T14:11:00.001-08:002014-01-06T14:11:13.818-08:00Epiphany/Three Kings Day Game, Craft and Lesson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We started our class as we usually do, with a coloring sheet for the kids to complete as everyone arrives. A three kings coloring sheet can be found<a href="http://dailycoloringpages.com/christmas-coloring-pages/christmas-nativity-scenes-coloring-pages/the-three-wise-men-christmas-coloring-pages/" target="_blank"> here</a> and printed for free.<br />
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To celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, we had the kids create paper crowns of their own. We pre-purchased white paperboard crowns we bought at Michaels ($2.99 for six crowns) but a similar style, pictured left, is available through my Amazon store, <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B0063GCHLA" target="_blank">Amazon, (13.49 for 24 crowns).</a><br />
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We had the kids decorate them with crayons, markers and stick-on jewels. <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B00GLXTY1Q" target="_blank">A large pack of stick on jewels can also be purchased through Amazon.</a><br />
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The kids enjoyed making the crowns, and with no glue, it was pretty simple to complete.<br />
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For our circle time, we read the story of the three kings to our kids. We used our text books, but there is also a nice version, also printable for free, on the <a href="http://www.dltk-bible.com/cv/the_wise_men.htm" target="_blank">DLTK kids website</a>.<br />
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Also in our circle time, we played a group game. We discussed the tradition of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake" target="_blank">Kings Cake</a> with the kids. Our game used a tiny plastic baby (we purchased them in the cake section at Michaels, they are also on <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B000R4O9MY" target="_blank">Amazon here</a>). We told the kids we would have one person be the King and would search for the baby, who was being hidden from King Herod. The King then went and stood away from the group, eyes closed, while we passed the baby around. One student then ended up with the baby in their hands, and then we called back the King, who got three guesses to see if he could find the baby Jesus. The kids in the circle all pretended they were holding the baby, making it tricky. Whoever had the baby Jesus was then the next King.<br />
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To create a gift for multiple people, I turned to Pinterest to find ideas. I found a reindeer craft, using brown tissue paper over a full tp roll to create a centerpiece using the same basic idea of googly eyes, a red pom pom nose and handprint antlers. <br />
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I went out shopping in search of something tp roll sized, but something I could actually give out as a gift. I was thinking either candles or small canisters of treats/food, and I think both would work nicely with this model.<br />
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I ended up finding jar candles for 3 for $10 at Michaels. So, I purchased a jar.<br />
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I also picked up brown 12 x 12 scrapbooking cardstock paper, manila 12 x 12 paper, red pom poms and googly eyes.<br />
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The 12 x 12 paper almost makes it around the candle. I cut some of the excess of the top, and cut slits down the top and folded over the brown paper to cover the top and secured the paper to itself with hot glue. I used clear packing tape on both the front and back of the back seam to create a tube that slips on and off the candle without sticking to it. <br />
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For the antlers, I traced my daughter's hands and added a little tab at the end to fold backwards. I secured the antlers with hot glue.<br />
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I then added the red pom pom nose and googly eyes, also with hot glue.<br />
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I'll now repeat, over and over again, until I finish gifts for my coworkers and others! <br />
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Merry Christmas!<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-40477784846366219892013-11-21T20:32:00.003-08:002013-11-21T20:43:07.124-08:00Egg Carton Advent Wreath Craft<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My daughter's Catholic school has been having half days for parent-teacher conferences. Since I work, this means my daughter has been going to their quality after school program. <br />
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They had an arts and crafts day, and she came home with this adorable little advent wreath.<br />
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It is four sections of egg carton cut off, four birthday cake candles poked into the egg carton centers, pink and purple ribbons tied to the candles and some greenery spread around the top.<br />
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This seems like it would be a great craft that is simple enough for the K-1 students, but interesting enough for older students (my 4th grader liked it!). I can't wait to try this with my class this Advent season.</div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-16252942174956480312013-11-18T22:52:00.000-08:002013-11-18T22:52:01.687-08:00Guardian Angel Craft<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For our craft, we created the above angels. This project involved a lot of out of class prep and not a lot of in class activity.</div>
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We spray painted toilet paper rolls gold, and painted<a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B00455C1US"> 2 inch Styrofoam balls (the smooth kind)</a> peach before class. We also pre-cut large gold ribbon, tying a small piece of yarn in the middle of the piece of ribbon to gather the angel wings. For the angel's hair, we gathered metallic yarn.</div>
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In class we had the kids draw on the angel face with a permanent marker. We then assisted in hot gluing the pre made angel pieces together. The kids really loved this project-- it didn't take a lot of class time, but gave them something really nice to take home to their home altars.</div>
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For our lesson, we discussed angels in depth using our text book. I also purchased a new book on the internet, <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/1612614086">Angels for Kids</a>, which provided a lot of information and answers to questions about angels.</div>
While the kids were waiting for assistance with the glue, we had them work on writing out their Guardian Angel prayer. I purchased a downloadable book, <a href="http://catholicicing.com/printable-catholic-prayers-for-kids-posters-and-copywork/">Learning Our Prayers the Write Way</a> which has the kids trace the prayer then write it on their own. The entire book download is only $2.00, and includes permission to share the materials with your whole RE class. There were several prayers in the book, I just used the Guardian angel prayer but look forward to using other prayers in future lessons.</div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-3174429471869905072013-11-01T21:35:00.000-07:002013-11-01T21:35:02.778-07:00All Saints Day Costume- St. Maria Goretti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My daughter chose to dress up as St. Maria Goretti this year for All Saints Day.<br />
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Maria Goretti died at age 12 years of age after an attempted raped that ended up in her stabbing death. Maria's father died when she was 9 years old, and Maria spent her days helping raise her siblings and helping out on the farm in the countryside in Italy.<br />
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Maria Goretti is the patron saint of purity and crime victims. For the costume, we purchased a peasant costume from Amazon for around $18.00. I added a toy dagger and plastic lilies, her symbols in picture and art.<br />
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You can purchase the <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B006ZAVHMY">Girl's Peasant Dress</a> here; a <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B00D2ASVXS">plastic lily</a> here and <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B000GL1EB2">plastic dagger</a> here. A quick and easy All Saints Day Costume.</div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-85353655359278977792013-10-30T19:10:00.000-07:002013-10-30T19:10:03.019-07:00Cheerleading Pumpkins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My daughter and I made "Cheer Pumpkins" this afternoon for her cheerleading Halloween Party.<br />
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We purchased mini pumpkins. At Michael's, we found some premade bows in the $1.00 seasonal section, and some cupcake "Cheer" megaphone picks.<br />
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Using a Sharpie permanent marker, my daughter drew on the faces, and we used floral pins to stick on the bow and poked the Cheer megaphone pick in the side. <br />
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Mini pumpkins could be easily personalized for lots of themes or party settings...I'm contemplating if we might b e able to use them for our upcoming All Saints Day celebration/class...<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-57532812852265447292013-10-27T19:21:00.003-07:002013-10-27T19:21:44.057-07:00Juggling: Gymnastics and a repeat lesson on Heaven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This weekend presented a challenge- our daughter had her first ever gymnastics meet scheduled for the same day as our RE class. <br />
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My husband, 9 year old daughter and I usually team-teach the class, which has this year amounted to 16-18 Kindergartner and first graders each week.<br />
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My husband decided to brave the class alone, while my daughter and I headed out early to her first meet.<br />
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The next lesson in our text book was on Heaven. To keep things simple, we decided to go with a tried and true craft, previously featured on this blog, where kids make their own "heaven" sculpture out of cotton balls.<br />
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To the left is our angel and heaven craft and you can link to the original post <a href="http://www.catholicre.blogspot.com/search/label/Heaven">here.</a> My husband reports that although he had about 16 students in attendance, he was able to successfully get the kids through the book lesson, circle time and this craft. </div>
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In related news, my daughter placed 7th in both the Vault and Floor. Pretty exciting! I hope you all have a blessed week and will pray for all of the parents out there juggling parenting, work and our commitments to our Church. </div>
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-84874656554827818892013-10-20T21:09:00.000-07:002013-10-20T21:40:01.396-07:007 Days of Creation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today's focus was on the Creation Story. We used an object lesson to aide our group lesson and discussion on the topic.<br />
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Prior to class, we prepared seven small paper bags, decorated them with numbers (1-7)--I found some free calendar printable numbers from a preschool site-- and tied them up with ribbon and lined them up on the floor in the center of our circle. After reading from our text books, we passed out the bags to the students (or pairs of students-we have more kids than bags) and then took turns having the kids open their "gifts" from God for each day of creation.<br />
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We used frogs because this is our theme for the year (see our prior post on the "Hoppy to know our Prayers" bulletin board and matching Frog prayer books).<br />
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For the first bag, Day 1 of creation, we placed a small flashlight in the bag to represent darkness and light.<br />
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For the second bag, Day 2 of creation, we found a piece of sky blue felt and had stretched a few cotton balls and glued them on as clouds and had the felt folded in the bag. This represented God's creation of the skies.<br />
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For the third bag, Day 3 of creation, we had a small container of dirt and a small container of water to represent God's creation of the land and seas. (this bag is ripped, the kids opening this one were pretty eager!)<br />
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For the fourth bag, Day 4 of creation, we had some small silver star confetti, and I took two small Styrofoam balls, cut one into a crescent moon shape and the other I kept whole and painted them both yellow. This represented the sun, moon and stars.<br />
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For the fifth bag, Day 5 of creation, we put in a small plastic bird toy and fish toy to represent the fish and birds.<br />
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For the sixth bag, Day 6 of creation, we put in a small person (Little People toy) and some animals to represent the creation of man and animals.<br />
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For the seventh bag, Day 7 of creation, we put a small plastic bed in the bag (ours was a Little People toy, anything dollhouse size would work) to represent God resting.<br />
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For our craft project, we had the kids create Creation Wheels, a copy-printable from the book <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/057005382X" target="_blank">Bible Wheels to Make and Enjoy</a> to reinforce the lesson when the kids went home.</div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-5190078017514433302013-10-13T15:10:00.000-07:002013-10-19T19:24:46.263-07:00Lord's Prayer Color Felt Prayer Book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This week's lesson focused on the Lord, Our Father. We started off our lesson discussing fathers and the roles they play in the lives of our kids, and compared this to the role of God our Father and how he cares for each one of us.<br />
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For our project, we created a small book on the Lord's Prayer, using a modified version of a Ribbon Bookmark craft featured at <a href="http://childrensministry.com/articles/ribbon-prayer">http://childrensministry.com/articles/ribbon-prayer</a> . <br />
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For our younger audience, we decided to go with a more tactile approach. We created flip books with small squares of felt for each color and part of the prayer.<br />
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Supplies: Binder Rings (Yarn would probably also work); Felt in the following colors: Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, Purple, White and Black; large index cards (8 per student); markers; hole punch; glue; and the printable text, (<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7kz6erFyh15cnpoY1YyTi1BcGM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">print for free here</a>).<br />
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For preparation, cut small squares of the felt, one square of each color for each child. If time is limited, precut the text into small squares/rectangles around the text as well.<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-66251233351857566172013-10-12T00:30:00.001-07:002013-10-12T00:30:48.215-07:00St. Elizabeth of Hungary Costume<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last All Saints Day, our daughter chose St. Elizabeth of Hungary for her All Saints Day costume and diorama project.<br />
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We had actually picked up the "renaissance princess" costume the prior year on clearance, which helped guide our daughter to pick a royal saint. I found some similar costumes on Amazon for around $25.00, either the <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B002M0J3VI" target="_blank">Reinassance Princess (blue theme) for $19.99</a> or the <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B00AAJ0NRG" target="_blank">Little Adventures Red Winter Princess dress for $29.</a>99 could work. These types of costumes can often be found in costume stores as well.<br />
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I made a red cape to add to the look. I don't really sew, so I purchased a burgundy-red velvet(ish) dress from our local thrift store (it was a Christmas dress with white fur trim). I cut off the trim, and cut it down the center. I turned the sleeves inside out and used fabric glue to close up the armholes and put a few stiches in the top part to make it fit like a cape (but left the neckhole plenty big to fit on and off easily. I found a <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B000W4CEX0" target="_blank">red cape for $29.99</a> on Amazon, or a <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B00C77CZRU" target="_blank">blue cape for $24.99</a> on Amazon that would work (my option with the modified dress cost around $4.00 in comparison, but more hunting and prep work would be required).<br />
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For her headdress, we ordered a crown from Amazon. Here is <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/B004MBJHQG" target="_blank">link to the exact crown pictured</a>, the cost is $4.00. For the white cloth underneath it, I repurposed a veil from a prior Mary costume, but I would think any white cloth would work. The crown held it in place nicely.<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-11730329625715319422013-10-06T14:04:00.000-07:002013-10-09T18:59:23.223-07:00"Hoppy" to Know Our Prayers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This year's theme for our K-1 RE class is.....Frogs!</div>
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As you can see above, we are using a similar bulletin boar to track and recognize our students as they memorize their prayers. In our local Archdiocese, the students memorize the Sign of the Cross, Prayer Before Meals, Prayer After Meals and Prayer to One's Guardian Angel in Kindergarten. In First Grade, they memorize the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be and the Prayer at the Stations of the Cross.</div>
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On our first class, each child created a frog prayer book with their four required prayers, to take home a work on memorizing during the week. When they come to class, they recite a prayer to a teacher and earn a frog prize and we put their name on a <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/1594415862" target="_blank">frog</a> and post it to the bulletin board.</div>
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Free printables for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7kz6erFyh15ME03ODhpeGxOSVk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Lily pads are here </a>, just write in the names of the prayers you are tracking, and the frog prayer books will be posted soon. </div>
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-8633427386787413202013-09-22T20:56:00.003-07:002013-09-22T20:56:47.557-07:00Guiding Your Catholic Preschooler--Excellent Book for pre Religious Ed students<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/0879733926" target="_blank">Guiding Your Catholic Preschooler</a> remains my favorite book to recommend for parents that are preparing your child for entry into either Catholic School or your parish's Religious Education program. While I have had friends that find it too simplistic if you've been raised in a devout Catholic home, as a parent who converted to Catholicism as an adult, I loved all of the ideas on how to incorporate your faith into daily family traditions and make our faith come alive for young children.<br />
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I strongly recommend this book for Catholic parents looking for creative ways to make our faith come alive and become understandable for our youngest church family members.<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-29065782034002386892013-03-10T19:18:00.002-07:002013-03-10T19:18:52.056-07:00Last Supper- Plastic Chalice Craft<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For our third week of Easter, we focused on the Last Supper. <br />
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For our craft project, we had the students design their own chalice, imagining what they would have presented to Jesus had they been present at the supper.<br />
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I purchased plastic champagne glasses at the Dollar Tree in our town (6 glasses for $1.00). I also purchased some Easter stickers from the Dollar Tree as well.<br />
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In our class, we retold another version of the Easter story. We discussed the Sacrament of Communion, and presented our sample project.<br />
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We had the kids practice lining up and bowing before the cup, with their arms crossed (as our kids do not yet take communion yet) and had them practice going up for a blessing and showing reverance to the Sacarament.<br />
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For our craft, each child was given a plastic champagne cup. We used permanent markers, and let the kids color the cups to make them look like either stained glass or jeweled in their appearance, and let them add stickers for fun. Given we do many coloring crafts, these were a hit as it was something easy to do. For our youngest preschoolers, we skipped the permanent markers and let them just apply stickers.<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-40797490813287841102013-03-10T19:13:00.001-07:002013-03-10T19:13:19.137-07:00Palm Sunday-- Paper Palms and Pin the Tail on the Donkey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For our second week of learning about Easter, we focused on Palm Sunday.<br />
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We made paper Palm Leaves from the book <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/0887247946" target="_blank">Easy Christian Crafts, PK-K</a>. This book features reproducible activities, including a two page palm leaf that our student cut out and taped together (we had it copied onto green paper).<br />
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For our game, we purchased a Pin the Tail on the Donkey game, and added an picture of Jesus to the donkey to represent Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. </div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-56397196353914440292013-02-23T14:53:00.004-08:002013-02-25T13:11:56.755-08:00Resurrection Eggs and Printable Link!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Each year, we use the <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/1572297220" target="_blank">Resurrection Eggs</a> to retell the Easter story. These are sold in a carton, and inside each plastic egg is a symbol from the Easter story. They aren't Catholic specifically, but can be found in any Christian book store (we got ours at Family Bookstore in Bellingham, WA). We usually tie this lesson in with a Stations of the Cross coloring book, or one year purchased plastic eggs and made Stations of the Cross eggs in class. We tell the story at circle time, and pass each egg around to each student as we tell the story.<br />
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This year, I found an awesome resource over at <a href="http://www.teachinghearts.net/">www.teachinghearts.net</a>, another site that describes using the Resurrection Eggs in class. Additionally, this site has an awesome <a href="http://teachingheart.net/blog/2011/03/resurrection-eggs-idea-with-printables/" target="_blank">FREE printable file folder game</a> with flip open Resurrection eggs to make and take home. Our plan is to use this activity along with the eggs, and save the Stations for another week during lent.<br />
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The Teaching Hearts printable was a bit complicated for our Kindergarten and First Graders, so we modified it slightly. We only distributed the blank folding eggs, folders and the 12 symbol circles, plus the cover and explanation page to each student. (We left out the fancy egg number covers and narratives for each egg). We just had the kids number the eggs 1-12 and decorate them on their own, eliminating some of the cutting and gluing.</div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-9498474316549606882013-02-19T14:45:00.002-08:002013-02-19T14:45:52.619-08:00February is Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Month<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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February is Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Month. Throughout the month of February, the goal is to spread awareness of CHDs, including pre-natal diagnosis and research for improved treatments and surgergies for CHD kids.<br />
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My daughter, Maddy, was diagnosed with a CHD at our 20 week ultrasound. She has <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002534/" target="_blank">Tetralogy of Fallot</a>, a series of four defects of the heart. <br />
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Maddy had an exploratory surgery in the cath lab and a separate open heart surgery at around four months of age. She has been followed by a cardiologist ever since, and will need a pulmonary valve at some point in the future. We are currently in the watch, wait and pray phase of treatment- waiting for indications that her heart is struggling necessitating the valve replacement, and praying that this doesn't happen until she is bigger, so that repeated valve replacements are not needed as she grows.<br />
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By learning our daughter's diagnosis before her birth, we were able to planfully give birth near higher level NICUs and prepare ourselves by learning as much about her condition as possible before she wa born. If you are expecting or know someone expecting, please read this article <a href="http://childrenshospitalblog.org/20-weeks-pregnant-time-to-ask-about-your-babys-heart/" target="_blank">20 weeks pregnant- things to ask about your baby's heart</a> .<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-55817422332286520902013-02-12T20:26:00.000-08:002013-02-12T20:26:13.568-08:00Ash Wednesday, Lent and Caterpillars<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On the last Sunday of Ordinary Time before Ash Wednesday, we presented the topic of Lent and penance and preparation for Easter.<br />
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For our introductory activity while the kids arrived, we had them color a simple Ash Wednesday drawing, like the one found on <a href="http://www.coloringpages101.com/printable_page/46894/Holidays/Ash_Wednesday.aspx" target="_blank">Coloring Pages 101</a> .<br />
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We then went outside and watched an Eagle Scout burn last year's palms to prepare the ashes for Ash Wednesday.<br />
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When we returned to our classroom, we had our circle time, working on the Prayer at the Stations of the Cross (1st Grade Prayer to memorize in Seattle Archdiocese) and discussed Ash Wednesday and Lent.<br />
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We discussed the process that caterpillars go through to become butterflies. We encouraged our students to think of ways they could prepare their hearts for Easter during Lent, such as giving up something, doing extra good deeds and adding prayer to their day to day routines.<br />
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For our craft project, we made caterpillars out of egg cartons. For each child, we ripped out a section of three egg cups from old egg cartons, and gave each student two small pieces of pipe cleaner. The students decorated the caterpillars with markers and inserted the pipe cleaners in the "head" by poking small holes with a pencil first, then inserting the pipe cleaners. <br />
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This ended up being a successful project--easy enough for our preschoolers to complete, but fun enough to keep our 1st graders entertained as well.<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-21602549329820636472013-02-06T22:35:00.000-08:002013-02-06T22:43:27.012-08:00New Book- Inside a Catholic Church<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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While spending some time in our local library, I came across this book, <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/1893361543">What You Will See Inside a Catholic Church</a> . (Click the link to view the item in my Amazon Store). Inside it features a guided tour of the different parts and items you will see inside the Church, perfectly written at a level for presenting to Kindergarten and First Grade.<br />
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I'll be planning our lesson this week around this book, and will hopefully post a more detailed lesson description once it is planned. Has anyone else incorporated this book into their lesson planning?</div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-12168837558854970462013-02-02T14:01:00.002-08:002013-02-02T14:01:21.588-08:00Feast of the Presentation of Jesus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This Sunday we are in that odd time between Christmas and Lent. We aren't quite ready to start with the Lent lesson plans yet, so we decided to look to the calendar for our lesson plan. February 2 marks Candlemas, or the feast of the Presentation of the infant Jesus at the Temple.<br />
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This event is the fourth Joyful Mystery when praying the Rosary, so we will use this as a chance to pray a decade of the Rosary with our class as well.<br />
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Our opening activity will be a mini coloring book from <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/oneyeartolivi-20/detail/0887248721">New Testament Take Home Bible Stories</a> on the story of Simeon to introduce the topic.<br />
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Once all of the kids arrive, we will move to our Circle Time. We gather in a big open space on the floor with a cloth (in the color of the liturgical season) with a candle in the middle. We will tell the Bible story of the Presentation of Jesus, then pass out Rosaries and pray a decade of the Rosary and explain the Fourth Joyful Mystery to the Class.<br />
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For our project, we will have the students make "Two Turtle Doves", the sacrificial gift brought to the Temple. DLTK Kids has a printable<a href="http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mdove.html"> TP roll Dove</a> craft we will use with our students.<br />
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How will you teach the Presentation of Jesus with your kids? Feel free to share your ideas in the comments below.</div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-26965846501405916422012-11-04T20:05:00.000-08:002012-11-04T20:05:37.865-08:00After Halloween Clearance Sales- Time to Stock up!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Always looking for a deal? Consider now as the perfect time to stock up on All Saints Day costumes essentials.<br />
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Princess Dresses/Costumes: Perfect for Royal Saints (ie St. Elizabeth of Hungary, etc).<br />
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Crushed velvet capses: add to the the princess dress for a Royal St.<br />
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Black Demon-type costumes with black robes: Nun costumes, some male saints wearing black robes<br />
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Short Black Capes: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton<br />
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Adult Monk or Nun costumes: We've used these to dress up as saints ourselves for RE class, or have taken the nun headdress to use with a generic black robe in a child size, above for nun saints. Monk costumes-- great for monks, St. Francis, etc., can be cut down for a child (or shortened with safety pins to "let out" as they get bigger.<br />
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White robes (greek-type costumes, angel costumes, ghost costumes, etc)- these can easily be modified for Blessed Theresa of Calcutta (add blue to the borders) or Archangel saints.<br />
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Halos-- good for any saint costumes, either sold with angel costumes or as an accessory</div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-50102444034054288312012-10-28T14:08:00.000-07:002012-10-28T14:08:37.407-07:00Saint Puppets- St. Elizabeth of Hungary and St. Francis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Using the free downloadable e-book from <a href="http://www.catholicicing.com/" target="_blank">www.catholicicing.com</a> we created St. Francis using the Head, Franciscan Hair, Praying Hands and Bird templates.<br />
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For St. Elizabeth of Hungary, we had to be a bit more creative. We used the templates for the crown, veil, shoulder cape, cape, dress and hands. To create the bread basket, we used the baby template, shrunk it down some, and freehanded the three loaves of bread for the basket. We used the St. Elizabeth puppet for our first graders (who happen to mostly all be girls) and our St. Francis puppet for our Kindergarten and younger kids as it is easier to put together.<br />
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Our daughter also appeared in person as St. Elizabeth of Hungary, giving her oral report to prepare for her report in school the coming week.<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-38583495460006274852012-10-16T05:36:00.002-07:002012-10-25T21:01:57.091-07:00All Saints Day- Saints Stations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For the next three weeks, our class will be working on activities related to All Saints Day. For for our first class, we focused on learning about what a Saint is (God's friends and our friends in Heaven) and gaining familiarity with some of the saints.<br />
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After our circle time and review of our text book section on Holy People, we set up five stations in our class room. We divided our children into five small groups of 2-3 kids, and had them rotate through the following stations to have them "live like a saint"<br />
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Station 1: St. Francis<br />
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We placed two small plastic containers next to each other. In one container, we placed a small amount of birdseed (about a half a cup) and had the kids use a teaspoon to move the birdseed from one container to the other to help feed the birds and care for God's creation, like St. Francis.<br />
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Station 2: St. Vincent de Paul<br />
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We brought in one of our daughter's Build a Bear animals with a dress and shoes. The children took turns dressing the animal to "clothe the naked" like St. Vincent de Paul.<br />
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Station 3: St. Teresa of Calcutta<br />
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We brought in a doll and a wrap bandage. The kids took turns bandaging up the doll to take care of the sick like St. Teresa.<br />
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Station 4: St. Nicholas<br />
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We had a child's shoe, and three coins. The kids took turns tossing the coins into the shoe from a distance, to be like St. Nicholas dropping coins in children's shoes.<br />
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Station 5: St. Elizabeth of Hungary<br />
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We brought in 9 small cans of tomato sauce and had the kids take turns arranging them into a stacked pyramid or tower to "feed the hungary" like St. Elizabeth.<br />
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To finish our class, we made the All Saints Day Buckets, found on the <a href="http://catholicicing.com/2011/10/craft-all-saints-day-treat-bucket/" target="_blank">Catholic Icing</a> website using orange buckets purchased from Michaels for $1.00 each.<br />
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We sent the kids home with a worksheet to complete with their parents to complete their "Saints Posse" or a team of saints in Heaven praying for them. This can be found on the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.loyolapress.com%2Fassets%2Ffg_comp%2Fpdf_199366.pdf&ei=WVR9UIzoFO32igK3woDADg&usg=AFQjCNEdFOHz0wc25tnqmvWtt1BunGTkKw&sig2=eVG9XM8PKHZfvu4yRS33sg" target="_blank">Loyala Press</a> website. We are hoping at least a few come back with it next week for discussion.</div>
MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-59154706910998820902012-10-07T13:30:00.002-07:002012-10-28T14:18:45.230-07:00Noah's Ark Prayer Flip Books- w/ Free Printables!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We kicked off our first RE class of the year with new and improved prayer flip books, similar to our bumble bee hive books and theme of the previous year.<br />
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Our theme this year is Noah's Ark. Our bulletin board states "We Noah Our Prayers", and is covered in blue butcher paper. For each student, we created small Noah's Ark boats listing out their required prayers to memorize for their grade level, and have a space at the bottom in a wave for the child's name. You can find these Prayer Checklist sheets on our <a href="http://catholicre.blogspot.com/p/re-teachers-free-printables.html" target="_blank">Free Printables Page.</a> <br />
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For our class project for the day, we had the children create their own Noah's Ark Prayer Books. These flip books, similar to our bee hives last year, can be printed, cut out and stacked to make cute booklets containing all of the required prayers. The flip books can also be found on our <a href="http://catholicre.blogspot.com/p/re-teachers-free-printables.html" target="_blank">Free Printables Page.</a> <br />
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Hope you like these...they took awhile to create, but I like the more polished final look that we have this year as opposed to the bee hives last year.<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-18756548169396109742012-09-08T16:30:00.004-07:002012-10-06T05:47:52.348-07:00First Day of Third Grade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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And just like that, summer is over and another year of school has begun. My little one is in Third Grade! I hardly know how this is possible, but here she is all shiny and clean for the first day.<br />
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Fall means not only school, but after-school activities, sports and scouts, and our favorite, RE classes!<br />
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Classes start up again in our parish in October, but we are already starting to work on our theme for the year...<br />
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A sneak peak will be coming soon, but we "noah" you are going to like this year's bulletin board and prayer memorization tools.<br />
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MaddyGoCheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642904733369425838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247155273704427688.post-51703760284073480412012-09-02T20:37:00.001-07:002012-09-02T20:37:49.004-07:00"do" and "done" magnet board - back to school<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our next back to school project- a magnet board using an idea from Pinterest. My daughter participates in competitive cheerleading (yes, there is such a thing) and her coach gives the girls homework each week, usually jumps or exercises to practice at home between team practices.<br />
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We typed up each of her typical homework tasks, printed them out, cut them out, mounted them on construction paper, and sent them through our home laminator. We attached a piece of magnet tape to the back of each piece.<br />
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For the board, I purchased a cookie sheet at Dollar Tree. We used painter's tape to mask the line down the middle, and spray painted the board with some extra spray paint we had leftover from previous projects (pink). When it was dry, I painted a coat of Modge Podge over the top to prevent scratching. I then punched holes in the top using a hammer and nail, and added a matching ribbon to hang it up. On the back of the board, I used more magnets to attach a small plastic pouch with the leftover tasks to switch out as necessary. <br />
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Now, our daughter has a easy visual checklist to help her complete her cheer homework each night. This could easily be modified for chores, other sports, etc.<br />
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