We Learn About™ Mary and Her Feast Days Teaching Edition provides teachers and catechists with background material on the feasts, memorials, and solemnities on the universal calendar that honor Mary. This information will help teachers explain to the children how the Church has honored Mary from its early years. The dogmas on the Immaculate Conception and Assumption are explained and Marian prayers are provided. Activities for second through fifth graders are provided, including: the opportunity to color images of Mary depicted in each of her feast days, to answer fill-in-the-blank statements regarding Mary and her feast days, to color a Rosary, and to draw pictures of Mary. All of the material within the children's edition is provided in the teaching edition.

You will lead the children in discovering:

• •   that we honor Mary because of her role in salvation history;
• •   that Mary was the first disciple;
• •   dogmas concerning Mary;
• •   how to pray the Rosary;
• •   traditional Marian prayers;
• •   the many names for Mary.

Sister Ann Therese Chaput is a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Presently, she is the Director of Faith Formation at St. Dismas Parish in Waukegan, Illinois. She holds a BA in theology from Loyola University, an MA from Loyola in Curriculum and Instruction, and an MA in Religious Studies from Mundelein College. She has been a teacher and DRE, Mission Education Director in the archdiocese, an elementary school principal for 20 years, and served in the southern missions in Alabama for the past 5 years.