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GLVN Bulletin
News for GLVN Volunteers (Thông Tin cho Thầy Cô GLVN)
Planning and Prepping Mode!
As you plan and prepare for your first day of class with your students, as well as all your exciting things for the upcoming months and year, we wanted to share a few online resources that might be helpful to you. These websites offer great ideas to enhance and supplement our current GLVN materials.
Most importantly, as you plan for a fun and fruitful lesson, remember to always help your students encounter Christ through anything that we do with our students. That is our primary calling as catechists. Not to teach theology or the Bible, but we are called to lead them into a relationship with Christ -- to help them have faith, keep their faith, and develop a desire to grow in their faith.
Our patron saint, St. Thomas Aquinas, said, "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
If we can do just that as catechists -- help our youth have faith by knowing and loving and having a relationship with Christ -- then the Holy Spirit will do the rest of the work to help our students understand the doctrine, traditions, and the beautiful mysteries of our Catholic Church.
Thank you for sharing your love for Christ with all of our students. Happy planning, and don't hesitate to let Ban Điều Hành know if you need any support or any resources to make it a great year with your students!
In Christ,
Chi
The Religion Teacher Website
These are specific online resources from The Religion Teacher website.
7 Practical Ideas for Prayer Before Class
10 First-Week Mistakes You Must Avoid
Save Your Voice & Your Sanity: 3 Ways to Effectively Get Students' Attention
6 Classroom Management Strategies for the First Week of School
FORMED.org
This is a great resource for catechists for our own faith development, but many resources that you can use with your students as well.
Every classroom this year will have an internet line that you can connect your laptop to. With projectors in every room, you can easily use resources from FORMED to supplement your curriculum.
1) Go to www.formed.org
2) Enter the parish code: CXV63J
3) Set up your profile account
4) Watch, read, listen, learn!!
More Blessings: School Renovation Update
Jesus told us ... "Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" ...
As many of you know, we have been praying for some sort of intercom system in the school to make it easier to reach teachers/students in the classrooms and also to have a little fun with morning announcements for GLVN.
Last Sunday, Cha gave us an opportunity to speak at the end of Mass about GLVN to the parishioners. As part of that speech, we shared our plans and our prayers for specific things in the school (see note below for that list), including our idea of an intercom system.
PRAYERS ANSWERED!!!!
So excited to tell you that someone has donated a business phone system to GLVN. This system includes one main phone for the office and 16 phones for classrooms. There will be 1 main GLVN phone number and each class will have an extension number. The phones have a speaker on it, so if we want to do announcements for all the kids, we can use that. The donor is working on getting us 3 more phones so that all 19 classes have a phone.
Please continue to say prayers of thanksgiving and prayers for our donor! God is soooo good!
MUSCLES NEEDED THIS WEEKEND!
The Main Level is ready for us to setup classrooms. Please join us this Saturday 9/3 from 10 am until evening to get things organized and setup. We need lots of muscles to help us move tables, chairs, cabinets into the classrooms.
Post-Confirmation Students Serving God Through GLVN
On Saturday an awesome crew of last year's Confirmation students came to help us clean, clean, clean. We wiped down inches and inches of dust from shelves and sanitized 88 classroom tables. Let's pray the Holy Spirit keeps moving in them!!
Vote for Our All-School Prayer
One of the suggestions that was submitted during our July teacher workshop was to choose an all-school prayer that we would all learn together. What a great idea and a great way to unite us all in prayer as a GLVN program!
Help us choose the prayer for our 2016-2017 school year. We will print the prayer on large poster board and hang in every classroom.
Click here to cast your vote by 9/2!
Cleaning & Setup Days
Slight change of plans on cleaning & setup dates:
- Friday 9/2 -- CANCELLED
- Saturday 9/3 from 10 am to 8 pm -- Please come! We need lots of muscles and help! Our goal is to setup the entire Main Floor (Classrooms, GLVN Office, Teachers Lounge & Meeting Room, Resource Centers, Student Lounge)
- Sunday 9/4 from 11:30 until 4 pm
- Friday 9/9 after 6 pm
- Saturday 9/10 from 10 am until completed
Saturday, Sep 3, 2016, 10:00 AM
St Anne-St Joseph Hien Church, Queen Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Teacher/TA Meeting
It's a busy time of year for everyone, but we would like to squeeze in a teacher meeting prior to school starting. This teacher meeting on 9/10 will cover the following information:
- Attendance policy reminders & update on new procedures
- First day of school logistics
- Open house plans/expectations
- Handout final class danh sach (we will try our best to get you a draft danh sach before then, but registrations are still coming in, so appreciate your patience with us on this!)
- Provide all GL & VN books for classes so that you can bring to your classrooms
- Tour the school (lots of new spaces and organization to show you!)
- Classroom setup for those who still need to do so
Thank you for arranging your schedules to be with us for this important meeting!
Saturday, Sep 10, 2016, 04:00 PM
St. Anne & St. Joseph Hien (School Building: Teacher Meeting Room 103)
First Day of School
- 10 a.m. -- First Class Session
- 11:15 a.m. -- Lunch Break
- 11:45 a.m. -- Second Class Session
- 1:00 p.m. -- Go to church to prepare for Mass
- 1:30 p.m. -- Mass
Sunday, Sep 11, 2016, 10:00 AM
St. Anne & St. Joseph Hien
Open House
On this day, you will have class with your students during the first hour. During the second hour students will participate in an all-school rally in the gym with our parish Youth Ministry Coordinator Christina, so that all teachers can be in their classrooms to meet and greet parents.
Sunday, Sep 18, 2016, 11:45 AM
St Anne-St Joseph Hien Church, Queen Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN, United States
ACTION ITEM!
It's been fun to see the profiles come in! But we've only received a handful of these. Please send Thảo (ttlam089@gmail.com) your profile as soon as possible! Thank you!!!
This year, we really want our kids and families to get to know who we are as a GLVN team, so that they can understand us and our perspectives and experiences to support us and pray for us in our efforts to catechize their kids. Faith formation is strengthened when relationships are strong, and this is one way to help our students grow in their faith by sharing our own journeys, interests, experiences and hopes!
We plan to create a "Meet Our Volunteers" bulletin board near the GLVN office. Please see the info request below and share with us a little bit about yourselves!
Năm nay chương trình GLVN muốn quý phụ huynh và các em biết thêm về những volunteers trong GLVN để hiểu biết, nâng đỡ và cầu nguyện cho nhau nhiều hơn. Để đạt được việc này văn phòng GLVN sẽ có một cái bảng trong trường học gọi là "Meet Our Volunteers". Xin quý thầy cô giúp chia sẻ một ít về đời sống của quý thầy cô theo những information dưới đây. Quý thầy cô có thể viết bằng tiếng Việt hoặc tiếng Anh.
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MEET OUR VOLUNTEERS (See sample)
Please send the below information to Thảo (ttlam089@gmail.com) by 8/31 and she will put it all together for us to display. Don't worry about formatting or designing your page. We will take care of that. Just send us the info and photos!
Background: Please write a few sentences to tell us....
- Why you like to volunteer in the GLVN program (Tại sao quý vị thích phục vụ trong chương trình GLVN)
- (Optional) a little bit about your family, school/work life (gia đình, việc làm, vv.)
- (Optional) your own hopes and dreams, especially related to your volunteerism in the GLVN program :-) (Những ước mong của quý vị cho cá nhân, các em, chương trình GLVN, vv)
Your Favorite:
- Saint (Thánh):
- Bible Verse (Câu Kinh Thánh):
- Food (Thức Ăn):
- Hobby (Sở thích giải lao):
Photo(s): Please send us a photo (or photos) of yourself to share with this profile!
Important GLVN Documents & Forms
Chuong Trinh Giao Ly Viet Ngu
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Email: chipham.sasjhparish@gmail.com
Website: www.gxannagiusehien.net
Phone: 00000000