FLEX FAITH FORMATION 2020-2021

October 2, 2020

Dear Elementary and PreK Parents,
Welcome to Children's Faith Formation 2020-2021! 

Thank you for registering your child or children for the 2020-2021 Children’s Faith Formation (CCE) year here at St. Laurence.  This includes all children registered for our weekly and Home Study programs - ages PREK3 thru 5^th grade.  We support your commitment to passing along your love for Jesus Christ and devotion to the Catholic faith to your children, and are grateful for the confidence that you have placed in us to support you in that endeavor. 

Since our ability to gather in person at the AMC has been delayed, we have begun all Children’s Faith Formation at home with a modified parent-led (i.e. ‘FLEX’) format for all of our weekly Elementary and PreK children.  This one-room schoolhouse approach, allowing families to engage children of multiple grade-levels (i.e. PREK3 through 5) simultaneously,  simplifies the implementation and provides opportunities for family prayer and formation together.

For the forseeable future, both the weekly and Home Study options will essentially operate in the same manner, with the exception of some additional Home Study Requirements.  Be sure to understand those, if you have registered your child for the Home Study option.

Be on the lookout, each week, for an email providing a lesson outline which will allow you to share a weekly teaching as a family.  This outline, in addition to your child's workbook materials, provides everything you will need to implement an engaging lesson at home.  Links to these weekly outlines can be also found on the left-hand side of this page, under the "At Home Resources & Weekly Lesson Outlines."

At the end of each curriculum Unit moving forward, you will be asked to complete an online assessment, as a family, which will provide credit for all of your participating children instead of uploading their individual work completed.

As conditions are updated and improve, we will continue to reassess this method of delivery for the weekly students, and prayerfully, be able to make adjustments going forward.   Please be sure to check back here periodically for updates. 

Thank you for allowing us the privilege of sharing this journey with you and your beautiful families!  

Gratefully,

Ms. Joan Hastreiter,  Preschool and Elementary CCE Coordinator