Happy New Year!
We have a new and beautiful website! I am working with RE Council member Lisa Chistenson to get everything up to date.
There is no Wintersession this year. Classes will begin Sunday and run through June 14. This is a brief synopsis outlining our current religious education program for children and youth.
PreK/K Spirit Play. This Sunday they will start in their classroom where we will begin Children's Chapel. They will learn about and walk a large floor labyrinth that their teacher, Judy Clough, will bring and have out. We will also have new finger labyrinths for them to try and labyrinths they can color and take home. Using labyrinths is a spiritual practice we introduce in all the Spirit Play classes.
For January the class will here the story of our flaming chalice. The story introduces an important symbol of our faith and the agreements we make with each other to be in community together. The stories they hear in class over the coming months will focus on our seven promises or Principles.
They will also hear about Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year beginning January 25.
1st & 2nd grade Spirit Play - This Sunday they will start in the preK/K classroom for Children's Chapel. See above description of Labyrinth Walk.
The class will hear the story of the flaming chalice and focus on our seven principles, or promises, over the coming months.
They will hear about Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year beginning January 25.
3rd and 4th grade Spirit Play- This Sunday the class starts in the preK/K classroom for Children's Chapel. See above description of Labyrinth Walk.
The class will hear stories from our UU Sources. They will explore some of the wisdom traditions, beginning with a Parable of Jesus. They will celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year and hear about Taoism in January as well.
In the upcoming months they will explore Buddhism, humanism, earth-centered traditions and the work and words of prophetic women and men..
They do this in the context of Spirit Play class which brings them together for a story and then allows them to explore the story they just heard, or a different one, on their own or in groups.
5th grade O.W.L.- The 5th grade will start this week in Children's Chapel at the preK/K room. They will learn about and walk the labyrinth. Then they will go to their classroom and meet their teachers for Our Whole Lives, the new curriculum they are beginning the following week.
If you have a child in 5th grade and have not heard from me about this class please contact me at 377-0002 or dre@fussonline.org. This class requires parental consent and an orientation.
6th grade The Questing Year- They will begin in their classroom and continue on their Questing Year journey with their teachers.
7th grade O.W.L.- Our Whole Lives class does not meet this week.
8th grade Neighboring Faiths- Meets in their classroom for a celebration! In January, as part of their Neighboring Faiths curriculum, the group will visit a Hindu Temple, discuss politics and religion on January 18 and make plans to visit a Baptist Church.
9th - 12th- meet in the senior youth lounge. They are busy planning for their youth con that they will host at FUSS January 16 -18. Look for signs as you enter the main building for ways to help. I know they are still looking for folks to bring food for meals.
