While I know that the year is not yet over, I just need to share how incredibly blessed the 2017-18 school year has been at The Way of the Shepherd. We began a new adventure this year, doubling our staff and significantly adding to the children in our care. The decision to expand our school’s […]
As we approach the end of the school year, many of the Extended Day / Kindergarten children are approaching the Second Plane of Development, which, according to Maria Montessori, has very different developmental characteristics than the First Plane. Dr. Montessori recognized four distinct planes: First (0-6 years), Second (6-12 years), Third (12-18 years), and Fourth
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The “all day in the Atrium” day finally arrived and it was celebrated with great peace, periods of remarkable silence, and much joy! To use the new favorite word to describe time in the Atrium…it was “phenomenal.” These crosses represent one visible “product” of a long year of intensive preparation for First Communion. Each child
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The “big work” of the second year children in the Atrium is their Missals. After laying out articles, pictures, and text cards representing the most important moments of the Mass in the order of the Liturgy, the children then begin the long, careful process of recording, illustrating, and internalizing the individual prayers which make up
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“Miracles” The subject of “miracles” has come up repeatedly with the children preparing for their First Communion this year. Early in Lent, the 2nd year children were pondering “The Mystery of Faith” and examining how the following are mysteries: Jesus’ death, Jesus’ resurrection, Jesus’ return to begin Parousia, as well as the bread and wine becoming
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Having just celebrated the Liturgy of the Light, the Atrium’s most solemn celebration of the year, where the one Risen Light of Christ spreads to many as each child receives a candle lit from the Paschal Candle, the youngest children are led to an encounter with the moment they themselves were first invited into the
The Upper Elementary children (E2 / Level III) spent two hours preparing to lead the Liturgy of the Light celebration for the entire school. They read through their assigned readings, they walked through the movements, they practiced both together, and then even had five minutes to spare before the Atrium began to fill with children.
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As we enter the final week of Lent, the children and staff at The Way of the Shepherd have been extra busy pondering the events of Jesus’ life commemorated on Holy Thursday and Good Friday as we move closer, with the whole Church, to Easter Sunday. Because of a very special celebration, The Penitential Rite
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It’s that time of year once again! Each of the children (ages 3 to 12) spent time writing and decorating an Alleluia card this past week in the Atrium. It brought a smile to my face to see the older children enter and exclaim with joy over this yearly activity that they have fond memories
Please keep our 2nd year children in your prayers as they begin to take time away through meditations and retreat, continuing to listen even more closely to the Good Shepherd and pondering the great gift of allowing His sap to flow through their branch on the True Vine. (One child was absent on Ash
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