I hope this finds you all healthy and well-stocked with soap and toilet paper. To alleviate parents' and teachers' concerns about meeting in large groups and to provide our families a solid plan moving forward, CCE will be transitioning to on-line classes for the remainder of the semester. Catechists will email lesson material to their classes each week for the students to complete with their parents at home.
 

• For K-5, this email may include using Loyola Press' on-line resources that families can log on and complete.  Your child's teacher will tell you which unit and lesson to do each week.  These lessons also include interactive assessments and reviews that students can complete and then email results back to the teacher. If needed, the appropriate pages from the textbook or other supplementary information will also be provided in the email.  
• 6th/7th Grade does not have online lessons, so everything to complete a particular week's lesson will be included in the weekly email.  Loyola Press does provide an 'Interactive Session Review' on-line which your teacher may ask the children to complete after each lesson and email results back to them.   
• To access the on-line resources, go to FindingGod.com; click on the Orange box (ignore the blue box); then click on 'Parent Resources'.  From there, click on your child's grade level and you will see a list of all units and lessons. 
• Your child will use the textbook pages provided and parents will use the online resource to help them understand the lesson, share information about the saints discussed and have the child take the 'Interactive Session Review'.
• 8th/9th grade and Confirmation textbooks do not have  online resources. All materials will be emailed each week  with instructions.  

If any family does not have the technology at home to make this work, we can arrange to get you a textbook and the corresponding instruction pages from the teacher's manual.  Call Becky Pursell @ (713) 516-7376 to make arrangements to get the material. 

Be assured that the entire CCE team is here to assist you with these lessons in every way possible. Do not hesitate to call, text, email or send a carrier pigeon if that's what it takes.  We are happy to hear from you and lend assistance.  We are a strong community of faith, and we will get through this new challenge with calm and grace.  Truly, St. Philip is more prepared to take on the challenge of disruption and change than any other group I know.  As of now, no further scheduling changes are planned, but keep checking the St. Philip app, website, email and weekly bulletin for further updates as needed.  I know the entire CCE team will miss seeing our students in class and look forward to a wonderful summer VBS program.