Preschool - Kindergarten
Offered at both services: 9 a.m. & 11 am
Spirit Play and Chalice Children alternate every other year, allowing children to have both the valuable curricula of Chalice Children with the creativity and freedom of Spirit Play. For 2010-2011, we will be using the Spirit Play curriculum.
Spirit Play offers children opportunities...
1st-3rd Grades - 11 a.m. service only
Our first, second, and third graders will embark on Faithful Journeys - a relatively new Tapestry of Faith curriculum. As Pathfinders, our children explore faith as a pilgrimage and discuss, through shared inquiry, how Unitarian Universalism translates into life choices and everyday actions. In each session, they listen to stories of historic or contemporary examples of Unitarian Universalist faith in action and have opportunities to share and affirm their own stories of faithful action. This curriculum emphasizes that our principles are not dogma, but a credo that they can affirm with many kinds of action.
4th and 5th grades - 11 a.m. service only
Toolbox of Faith explores the various aspects of our Unitarian Universalist faith and how those qualities (love, courage, justice) can be used as metaphorical tools to further their own spiritual development.
6th-7th grade - 11 a.m. service only
The Navigators will be using a new Tapestry of Faith curriculum entitled Families. This program re-envisions the definitions of family, based on our Unitarian Universalist perspectives of love and inclusion, and recognizes that a family is defined by its members. This class focuses on ethical, spiritual, and faith development in class sessions with the inclusion of a photographic documentary project that provides students the means to personally explore and display what their family means to them.