Children's Classes
Pre-Kindergarten
We Are Many, We Are One
9:30 service only
Following the premise that
children learn best through direct experience, Chalice Children is designed to
nurture children's spiritual growth, creativity and connection to their UU
community by involving them in hands-on rituals - rhymes, fingerplay, games
& other activities. Young ones are introduced to the Unitarian
Universalist chalice, discover the concepts of birth and death, explore the
great forces of nature and the difference between animate and inanimate things
and consider how to make choices and overcome difficulties.
The K-5th Grade Program
Overview
Tapestry of Faith, offered
Fall-Winter in 16 sessions, is a new and evolving series of programs and
resources that nurtures UU identity, spiritual growth, ethical and
spiritual development, transforming faith, and vital communities of
justice and love. The UUA is developing these resources out of a broad
series of conversations and denomination-wide focus groups that articulated a
future direction for Unitarian Universalist religious growth and learning.
A World Religions
mini-semester, offered Winter- Spring for five Sundays, aims to
develop awareness and sensitivity to other cultures and religions and
expose students to religious experiences that they may use to shape their own
spiritual paths.
In the Spring, K-5th graders
will participate in a community service project. The project will be
similar to recent endeavors such as The Green Hill Project, with which we
created a environmental curriculum which had the kids outside doing hands-on
activities to learn about- and care for - the immediate environment.
Kindergarten - 1st Grade
Wonderful Welcome
9:30 and 11:15 services
Wonderful Welcome, a Tapestry
of Faith offering, challenges participants to explore how and why we are
willing to welcome others into our lives by welcoming not only strangers, but
family, peers, neighbors and even entities that are not people such as our
animal friends and nature itself. This program helps children
understand and practice other values central to Unitarian Universalism such as
friendship, hospitality, and fairness. It offers children safe, positive and
intentional ways to relate to one another, the people in their families, and the
world around them as they investigate how they use gifts they can't see or
touch to welcome others into their lives.
Grades 2 - 3
Faithful Journeys
9:30 and 11:15 services
Faithful Journeys, a Tapestry
of Faith offering, takes a pilgrimage of faith, exploring how Unitarian
Universalism translates into life choices and everyday actions via historic or
contemporary examples of Unitarian Universalist faith in action. Through
sessions structured around the Unitarian Universalist principles, Faithful
Journeys demonstrates that UU principles are not a dogma, but a credo that
individuals can affirm with many kinds of action. Over the course of the
program, children discover a unity of faith in the many different ways
Unitarian Universalists, including themselves, can act on our beliefs.
Grades 4 - 5
Windows & Mirrors
11:15 service only
Windows & Mirrors, a
Tapestry of Faith offering, nurtures participants' ability to identify their
own experiences and perspectives and to seek out, care about and respect those
of others via topics that lend themselves to diverse experiences and
perspectives - for example, faith heritage, public service, anti-racism and
prayer. The curriculum presents the windows and mirrors metaphor as
an effective tool for understanding and living our Unitarian Universalist
principles.
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