Religious Exploration With Our Young
Our program continues to be directed to aid families in their search for spiritual growth. We believe that children learn best when they are having fun and are engaged in the program so we have organized classes based on age groups and parent feedback, choosing classes that have something to interest each different learning style. Sometimes listening, sometimes playing games, sometimes crafts -- every child is different and finds different elements of the program that they enjoy best.
The 4 children’s RE classes including:
- NURSERY: Dr. Seuss & UUs
Children spend their time in play and we add a little curriculum silliness. - EARLY ELEMENTARY: Moral Tales
A UUA Tapestry of Faith curriculum. Provides children with the spiritual and ethical tools needed to make choices and take actions reflective of their Unitarian Universalist beliefs and values.
Curriculum - UPPER ELEMENTARY: Tool Box of Faith
A UUA Tapestry of Faith curriculum. Reflects on the qualities of our Unitarian Universalist faith, such as integrity, courage, and love, as tools the children can use in living their lives and building their own faith. Each session uses a tool as a metaphor for an important quality of our faith such as reflection (symbolized by a mirror), flexibility (duct tape), and justice (a flashlight).
Curriculum - TEENS: Popcorn Theology
Movie night meets UU ethics (ages 12+). This program examines how the choices we make affect our lives, and the lives of others. We look into concepts such as truth and meaning and how that they are related to the individual’s perspective. We consider ways our faith can help us understand our questions, seek answers and deal with the challenges of life. Each session has a selected movie excerpt which lasts approximately 15 to 20 minutes to allow for the one-hour RE format.
Curriculum
At 10:30AM children join their parents in service, or join our children's community staff that will oversee a healthy snack, outdoor games, and craft activities.
Social Action Sundays
On the first Sunday of each month we will begin with an “ingathering” ritual coupled with a Social Action project. The children gather in one classroom to light a chalice together, share joys and concerns; then work on a project together that benefits our community either within our Fellowship, OR with in our city; OR in the wider web of existence. Every other week they go directly to their classroom for chalice lighting and lessons.
NEW THIS YEAR -- After service care
Available beginning Sept 2011 childcare until 12:30. Children remain with childcare providers until parents come to sign them out. Children under the age of 8 should stay with the monitors OR their parents after service. This is a new arrangement, we are trying to let parents have time to share in coffee hour and meetings after service knowing their children are having fun.
LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS
We are looking for volunteers to teach our children.
Volunteers would be responsible for 4 sessions.
All materials are provided.
Please contact Happy Amein for more information.
"The great end in religious instruction is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own."
William Ellery Channing
The Puppet Show
Learn about the UU's Seven Principles.
Part One
Part Two
