The Prayer Pal program, where a student in grades four through eight are matched with a student in grades Preschool through three, is a long-standing tradition at OMPH School. Each year, the OMPH Kindergarten class is paired up with the Fifth Graders to be their prayer pals. Kindergarten meets with their faithful, loving, inspiring, and kind prayer pals two times a month. During these times, the Fifth grade prayer pals pray, encourage, and create art projects with the kindergarteners.
The students also spend time reading stories, exploring nature outside, praying at the grotto, talking about their favorite activities, and how they can work together to love, serve, and praise God. During the month of September, the Kindergarten students learn about the importance of apples, the life cycle of an apple, take a virtual tour of an apple orchard, and how apples can be used each day.
For their prayer pals project in September, the Fifth grade prayer pals helped the Kindergarten students create apple mosaic sun catchers that they displayed on their windows in the classroom. Students were given different colored apples made out of card stock and instructed to put colorful tissue paper on a piece of sticky liner. The students then overlapped the tissue paper to create a mosaic collage. Next, they took another piece of sticky liner and put that on top of the tissue paper. Finally, they cut out the form of their apple.
The designs the students created were colorful and beautiful! Each time the kindergarteners are given opportunities to interact with their older buddies, they learn and grow in their faith. Thank you, prayer pals, for being positive role models in the lives of OMPH School’s youngest students!
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