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Early Childhood

Come, Follow Me
Share The Joy
Benziger Religion Readiness

Start your kindergarten and preschool youngsters on their faith journey with Benziger resources!

Come, Follow Me, Kindergarten has been designed for traditional classrooms.
Share the Joy, Kindergarten is an alternate design for parishes.
Benziger Religion Readiness--a bilingual program for preschool and kindergarten children--is a dynamic, fresh approach which is God-centered, child-focused, teacher-friendly, and based on sound principles of early childhood education.

	Come, Follow Me
	Kindergarten, Second Edition

	School	Student Text
	Student Text	0-02-655964-1
	Teacher's Wraparound Edition	0-02-655965-X
	Teacher's Resource Kit	0-02-662143-6
	For Traditional Kindergarten Classrooms

Features

Kindergarten children begin learning about their Catholic roots through classroom experiences and lively activities in the Come, Follow Me program.
Creative projects and bright, colorful student texts, created specially for the five-year-old, support daily lessons and capture students' attention.
Lesson planning is a breeze with the program's easy-to-use format, perfect for parish and school use.

Student Text

A bright 30-lesson workbook full of colorful illustrations, photos, craft and activity pages. Pages are perforated for send-home ease.

Teacher's Wraparound Edition

Student Text pages are presented with one, three or five-day lesson plans for easy preparation. The Teacher's Wraparound Edition includes:
- Complete resource section
- Teacher preparation materials
- Song Book, Games, Fingerplays, and Storybook
- Reproducible Parent Letters in English and Spanish

Teacher's Resource Kit

This handy resource kit is full of colorful posters, cut-out story props and puppets, a fold-out puppet stage, and music cassettes to ensure exciting and lively kindergarten classrooms.

	Share the Joy
	Kindergarten

	Student Pack	0-02-655873-4
	Catechist's Resource*	0-02-656065-8

	For Kindergarten Parish Classes
	*contains Kindergarten Catechist's Edition & cassettes and management box

Features

Share the Joy for kindergarten invites the children to realize and to express their joy in God's wonderful gifts-themselves, their world, and God's love.
Share the Joy helps children and their families understand that God really cares and that all are invited to be part of God's Family.
Each of the twenty booklets offers an opportunity for the children, the parents, and the catechist to rejoice in the specific gifts of God's love. Most of all, Share the Joy invites the participating families to celebrate belonging to God's Family through following Jesus.
Kindergarten catechists will have the thrill of knowing that this new program will make a big difference in the lives of the children in their classes. Share the Joy is tailor-made for the parish school of religion.

Student Pack

The Student Pack consists of 20 lesson booklets and My Catholic Faith, a special doctrine book.

Catechist's Resource

For the convenience of ordering and organization, the Catechist's Resource includes the Kindergarten Catechist's Edition and music cassettes as well as a special Management Box.
The Catechist's Edition provides a complete overview, easy to use lesson plans, reproducible resources, family messages and parent letters in English and Spanish.
Two Kindergarten music cassettes are provided: (1) songs for use throughout the year and (2) instrumental.
The Management Box organizes the entire year in one place. It is designed to hold the Catechist's Edition, My Catholic Faith booklets, and the Lesson Booklets in the order that they are going to be used.

Also Available

Share the Joy At Home/Share the Joy En Casa
These are booklets which guide families in further developing the individual Lesson Booklets of Share the Joy right in their homes. The English and Spanish booklets can be purchased in single copies or ten-packs.
My Catholic Faith/Mi Fe Católica
Additional copies of My Catholic Faith or copies of Mi Fe Católica can be purchased. Also available are ten-packs of My Catholic Faith or Mi Fe Católica.
Catechist's Edition
Additional copies can be ordered separately.

	Benziger Religion Readiness GOD'S GIFTS- Preschool

	Complete Set	0-02-656483-1
	(includes English Literature Package)
	English Literature Package only	0-02-656518-8
	Spanish Literature Package only	0-02-656486-6

	GOD'S FAMILY- Kindergarten
	Complete Set	0-02-656485-8
	(includes English Literature Package)
	English Literature Package only	0-02-656519-6
	Spanish Literature Package only	0-02-656517-X
	Bilingual Program for Preschool & Kindergarten

Features

These exciting, joyful programs--God's Gifts and God's Family--were developed to gently introduce young students to the fundamentals of the Christian Faith. Through a wide variety of lesson themes, the children learn to experience God's love and the generosity of God's gifts, and to experience God's family in the everyday world. They learn from Jesus and about Jesus. They learn stewardship, celebration, and prayer.
Opening God's Gifts and God's Family is like opening a surprise package. All that is needed to teach a successful and enjoyable religion readiness program is inside!
- Acres of Activities: Each program recognizes that young children are not passive, sedentary people. They need to move, to be involved, to be exposed to fresh ideas in a variety of ways. Each of the 20 lessons in the Teacher's Planning Guide provides plenty of developmentally appropriate activities and more.
- A Bounty of Books: Big Books, Lap Books, and Small Books are bilingual in English and Spanish, with each having a separate Literature Package for preschool and kindergarten. The English Literature Packages are included in the boxes. Spanish Literature Packages are available separately.
- Scores of Music: A music tape is provided; the words and music are available in the guide.
- Pounds of Posters: A set of 10 posters with bilingual lessons on the back of each is furnished.
- Fields of Families: Family letters in English and Spanish are available.
- Loads of Learning: A whole set of ideas is provided with Workjob Cards, Association Cards, and Sequence Cards.
- Bilingual Family Letters: Twenty letters in English and Spanish summarize each lesson, bringing the content and experience of the lesson home.

Complete Set
GOD'S GIFTS

Teacher's Planning Guide
"Fun Ways with Special Days"
"Like a Little Child"
Sequence Cards
Association Cards
Workjob Cards
Music Cassette
Poster Package
Prayer Area Sign
Family Letters (bilingual)
English Literature Package

Complete Set
GOD'S FAMILY

Teacher's Planning Guide
"Fun Ways with Special Days"
"Like a Little Child"
Sequence Cards
Association Cards
Workjob Cards
Music Cassette
Poster Package
Prayer Area Sign
Family Letters (bilingual)
English Literature Package

Additional copies of the English Literature Package that is furnished in God's Gifts (preschool) or God's Family (kindergarten) can be purchased separately.

English Literature Package
GOD'S GIFTS