Fourth Grade Activities

CORNELIA’S LIFE: Review all Coloring Cornelia; review all of A Generous Love: The Life of Cornelia Connelly.
Cornelia starts a new religious community of sisters: the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. She chose the name because Cornelia believed God lives and acts in each person – just as God sent his son Jesus to enter our world to teach us how to act.

VALUES: Reverence
QUOTE: "Is mine a listening soul?" C.C.
HOLY CHILD SCHOOLS: If possible, Skype with another class from an international Holy Child School.
GEOGRAPHY: With Google Earth, locate the international Holy Child schools and where the Sisters of the Holy Child have ministries throughout the world.

Primary resources:

• Photos of Native America students and families in
  • Avoca, Minnesota - Photo 1, Photo 2
  • Cheyenne, Wyoming - Photo 1

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES AND IDEAS:

• Learn the prayer: Glory be to God, whose power working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Coloring Cornelia and A Generous Love post reading activities (see below)
• Possible questions to accompany coloring book for 4th grade students.
• Cornelia Connelly Scavenger Hunt game
• Who Wants to be a Corneliannaire? game
• Walking tour of Cornelia's Philadelphia
• Photos from walking tour:
  • 8th and Filbert
  • St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
  • 10th and Sansom
  • 151 N 9th
  • 7th and Market
  • Christ Church Burial Grounds (5th and Arch)
  • Betsy Ross House
  • Elfreth's Alley
  • Christ Church(2nd between Arch and Market)
  • City Tavern
  • Bishop White's House
  • Walnut between 10th and 11th

• Create a wordle with words that represent your Holy Child experiences.
• Reenactment of Cornelia's story
• Create a skit to represent some aspects of Cornelia’s life. (monologue to multi-person). Instructor will decide how to assign the tasks. If possible, perform for other grades or record the presentations for other students to see. Is there a place on your school’s web site where the students’ work could be published?
• Create a collage of pictures, words and symbols that will represent all aspects of Cornelia’s life. Think about using Glogster for a web-based poster.
• Write a song and/or choreograph a dance to represent Cornelia’s life, passions and struggles.
• Write a 3 stanza free verse or rhyming poem about Cornelia’s life, passions and struggles.
• Create newspaper articles about Cornelia’s life, legacy or schools.