Pre-school thru 5th grade

4th & 5th Grade

Toddler Time

Our Toddler class will experience a literature-based curriculum that includes songs and art to complement the age appropriate stories. This class allows toddlers plenty of time for free play, exploration, and relationship building with their friends. Because we understand the importance of consistency for toddler-age kids, we provide a trained staff member to lead this class. However, we do ask that parents of toddlers volunteer at least one Sunday per month.

Preschool

Chalice Children

Chalice Children is based upon the philosophy that a child's spiritual development is related to direct experience. This curriculum helps young children learn what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist. Using a chalice theme, children learn about their religious community, engage in sharing with others, and explore a sense of belonging.

Goals for Participants:

To nurture affection and affirmation for a child's individuality;
To develop a sense of belonging to a Unitarian Universalist community;
To foster acceptance, trust, and an appreciation of themselves and others in their world;
To create a sense of connection to nature and the universe, and;
To develop self expression, cooperative skills, and creative achievements as they learn and grow.

Kindergarten/First Grade

Around the Church, Around the Year

Through this curriculum, our Kindergarteners and First Graders will become acquainted with their own Unitarian Universalist community: the people, buildings, rituals, and celebrations, and the basic tenets of Unitarian Universalism.

Goals for Participants include:

To understand each person's uniqueness and potential;
To become familiar with Unitarian Universalist rituals and traditions;
To become familiar with their congregation's history, lay and staff leaders, and building, and;
To learn how Unitarian Universalists celebrate holidays.

Second and Third Grades

We Believe

This program builds on the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism. The activities encourage participants to incorporate the Principles into their lives.

Goals for Participants include:

To explore what they know about the Seven Principles;
To reflect on this knowledge;
To engage in activities inspired by the Principles, and;
To incorporate the Principles into their daily lives.

Fourth and Fifth Grades

Spirit of Adventure

Spirit of Adventure is a new approach to UU curricula - written especially for active kids featuring 35 sessions with unique themes, such as sports, medicine, architecture, science and food, and emphasizing active play such as circus arts, a "take apart party," obstacle course, and a treasure hunt.

Goals for Participants:

To become aware of values that Unitarian Universalists find important;
To learn that celebrating is part of a universal response to life;
To honor the diversity and particularity of cultural tradition and the commonality of the human condition;
To develop an interest in and an understanding of the ethnic traditions of our world neighbors;
To "meet" some of the heroes and heroines of our liberal tradition;
To become acquainted with a few great religious events, stories, myths, and persons, and;
To have opportunities for expressions of social concern.