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By Virginia
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Valerie, congratulations on your new job. I also teach first grade and please do not feel intimidated by teaching religion. You will find that throughout the day you will have opportunities to include religion into your| lessons. Simply by recognizing a child's kindness to classmates or another child's honesty in class are ways to reinforce your lessons. We use the Silver Burdett series "This Is Our Faith" and after I read a page or two with the class, I find the most effective lessons are those when I relate material to the children's lives. We spend more time discussing lessons than we do actually reading | |
the books!You will find first graders to be refreshingly innocent and honest. Don't worry about teaching religion, you will be surprised how it all falls in place. A great unit to include as part of your religion curriculum would be character education. In fact, you should save this unit to use in case you eventually transfer to a public school. Character education is a hot topic in all school systems right now. Best of luck to you in your new job..have a great school year.
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