Stories of God's Love, 2nd Edition, 2024 — RCL Benziger

Stories of God’s Love Second Edition is a complete Preschool-Kindergarten religion readiness program for parishes and schools. The program helps children take the first steps on their journey of faith and provides them opportunities to build connections between home, church, school, and family.

New Second Edition features to love:

• Spiral bound Storybook – Contains the same images and stories as the ones on the corresponding children’s leaflets and serves as a focal point for story time.
• Focus on Virtues - Carefully selected virtue connects the chapters in each unit to meet the developmental and faith formation needs of young children.
• Feelings Check-In – Included in each chapter to help children recognize, name, and navigate their feelings, as they grow in understanding of themselves, God, and others.
• Cross-Cultural Connections – Identifies common cultural differences and concerns and provides suggestions to help every child in the program grow in faith.
• A Quality Moment – Provides teachers and catechists with realistic learning and behavioral expectations and suggestions of how to meet the needs of the children.
• The Whole Child – Suggests methods to provide children with developmentally appropriate opportunities to build faith and social-emotional, physical and language skills.
• Family Communication – Explanation of suggested resources that will help families extend the lessons and incorporate faith formation at home..
• Wisdom from the Church - Quotes from enyclicals and apostolic exhortations that address the unit virtue and inspire further reflection for teachers and catechists.

The second edition features a new look on covers, updated art, and new packaging for student packs. With a special focus on early learners and social and emotional skill development. Includes new extension activities for guided play.

Stories of God's Love (©2024) has been found in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church.