Homeschooling Families

May 1, 2018 

Dear Junior High School Religious Education Homeschool Parent: 

I am very happy to welcome you and your children to the Junior High School Religious Education Program here at Corpus Christi.  I am confident that the curriculum will create a welcoming, inviting and engaging program for your child to grow in our Lord Jesus Christ.  

The program is designed to help young adults know, live in, love and befriend the Blessed Trinity.  We make connections between what we believe, how we live and how we pray. The three-year curriculum covers God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Prayer and the Sacraments, and Catholic Social Teachings and Morality.

Class schedules for each grade can be found on the Corpus Christi website under “Announcements & Schedules”.  

Please see below special events that home schooled students are invited to attend along with students attending class at the parish center.  Home school students can join any regularly scheduled class for these events.
 
Special Events:                                
Oct. 14, 2018      7:00 – 8:00pm     7^th Grade Mass 
Oct. 28, 2018      7:00 – 8:00pm     8^th Grade Mass 
Oct. 28, 2018      6:00 – 8:00pm     6^th Grade Retreat             Theme:  GRATITUDE
Nov. 18, 2018     7:00 – 8:00pm     6^th Grade Mass
Dec. 9, 2018        1:00 – 3:00pm    Back Pack Assembly       Gym (all invited!)
Jan. 27, 2019      6:00 – 8:00pm    7^th Grade Retreat              Theme:  KINDNESS
Jan. 27, 2019      normal times       8^th grade ACRE Test         MANDATORY-8^th Grade
Mar. 3, 2019        6:00-8:00pm       8^th grade Retreat               Theme:  COURAGE
Mar. 3, 2019        normal times       6^th Grade Reconciliation
Mar. 10, 2019      normal times       7^th Grade Reconciliation
Mar. 17, 2019      normal times       8^th Grade Reconciliation
Mar. 24, 2019      6:00 – 7:00pm    Ice Cream Social               Gym  (all invited!)
 
Homeschool Instructions:
1. Look at your schedule and see which chapter you will need to complete for that week.
2. Read the chapter from the Catholic Connections Handbook.  Discuss the chapter with your parent.   Read the Bible references discussed in the chapter.
3. From the Corpus Christi website, print and complete the homework questions given for each of the chapters under “Grade X Homework”.
4. Place in an envelope:  Attention:  Brian Duemling and drop off with the Receptionist in the Main Office at church.   
5. Please return all books, if used, at the end of the year.

Should you have any questions, please contact me at: bduemling@corpuschristi.org  or 973-635-0070, X-740.

Thank you for all your help guiding your children in this program! 

Brian T. Duemling
Middle School Religious Education Coordinator