For Golden Apple teacher Sonja LoVecchio, sharing the faith with her kindergarten students ‘feels natural and authentic to me’
Situated in the kindergarten classroom at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Elementary School in Clinton, Maryland is a student-sized altar where the youngest students at the school begin their faith formation.
It is in this classroom and around that altar that kindergarten teacher Sonja LoVecchio not only teaches her students their alphabet and numbers, but also how to “perceive our Catholic faith like a kaleidoscope of color and beauty.”
LoVecchio, who converted to the Catholic faith nearly 40 years ago, said she prefers teaching in a Catholic school because “my faith is very important to me – that is everything for me.”
“I am so grateful for it (the Catholic faith), and I have a deep enthusiasm and excitement about it and I am anxious to share it,” she said.