Developed in the 1930s by the Marquette Institute of Catechetical Research, the Religion in Life Curriculum is more than just a Teacher's Manual for use with its accompanying textbook series, The Highway to Heaven. It lays out a complete course of religious education that includes music, art, reading and classroom activities.
This First Grade Teachers Plan Book and Manual includes presentation material for the lessons contained in the First Grade text, The Book of the Holy Child, along with recommended readings and activities for both student and teacher. Many of these readings were taken from contemporary Catholic school readers now long out of print. These have been painstakingly collected and reprinted in a companion anthology: The Magnificat First Reader. A full listing of all resources for this curriculum can be found here.
Please note: The lesson material for the Sacraments of First Confession and First Communion is contained in this First Grade Manual, not the Second Grade Manual.
This edition faithfully reproduces the original manual and includes supplementary material from the 1931 curriculum overview, A Curriculum in Religion, as well as a newly compiled appendix listing the recommended supplementary texts.
softcover 5.25" x 8" 184 pages
Customer Reviews
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Beautiful illustrations and wonderful content
Beautiful illustrations and wonderful content
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Religion in Life Curriculum First Grade
I bought this as my primary teaching curriculum for my homeschooled children (ages 7 and 5). I absolutely LOVE it!!! I've tried some of the other more "modern" religion texts which are dry, difficult to teach, and do not hold their attention. I am just starting to use this but already my kids are engaged in helping set up the sand table and in finding things to use in it. I love that this curriculum understands kids--it provides hands-ons activities through crafts, dramatizations, sand tables, etc. Any child can sit down and do a worksheet page and memorize things, but this curriculum really engages all of the child's senses. I am so very grateful for all you do to bring us these wonderful books! I can't wait for the readers to be finished! Thank you and keep up the great work!
