Our Religious Education Classes for Children
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All of these classes are described more fully in the religious education program prospectus.
Infants and Toddlers
We invite our infants and toddlers into a safe, loving environment where they will quickly feel comfortable. The Playroom for infants and the Playgroup for toddlers are staffed and equipped to be warm, welcoming, secure and happy places where the children are cared for while their parents attend the worship service and other functions.
Staff: Leslie Arluck, Child Care Supervisor
Bridges
Bridges includes supervised play and a variety of planned activities for three year olds using art, music, poetry, stories, conversation, movement, drama and experiences from the natural world.
Teachers: Mary Lou Kluger, Elizabeth and Charles Weinstein Class parent:
Butterflies
Butterflies recognizes four year old's growing maturity and social skills. Crafts, music and companionship are vital parts of the program. Unitarian Universalist principles are introduced on an age-appropriate level.
Teachers: Charlotte Herdman,
Ralph and Jessica Vega
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A Discovering Year
The kindergarten program nurtures children's spiritual and religious growth through connections to their ever-widening environment. The children celebrate this world as they explore themselves and friendships, their families and congregation.
Teachers: Lauren Furst, Peter Koos, Rosemary Lopez, Melissa Pappas
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Haunting House
This curriculum is designed to help first graders feel at home in the world through experiences of building and living in different kinds of houses and by addressing a variety of life situations, including birth, death, fears and relationships.
Teachers: Nancy Baldwin, Debbie Kahn, Paul Winkler
Free to Believe
This program is designed to nurture the emotional, social and spiritual life of second grade children. It explores our Unitarian Universalist principles, values and beliefs through hands-on activities, stories, games, songs and discussions.
Teachers: Katie Kurjakovic, Toni Logue,Jean Lucarelli
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Feasts and Festivals
Through a diverse array of costumes, customs, festivals and foods, third graders celebrate the myriad of the world's major cultures and religious traditions. In doing so they discover their common bonds with peoples of the planet.
Teachers: Lisa Brody, Bob Gale, Laura Grassie Class parent:
Stepping Stones
Fourth graders learn to formulate, understand and express their religious identities and concepts within the context of their own faith tradition. They learn to develop their own thinking and decision-making skills via myths and stories of various religions and cultures, the natural sciences and biographies of eminent Unitarian Universalists.
Teachers: Beth Fedirko, Michele Streeter, Sheri McKee
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Bibleodeon
This program is an introduction to the Jewish and Christian scriptures for fifth graders in a liberal religious setting. The children explore connections between biblical events and Unitarian Universalist principles and values, between biblical ideas and their own lives.
Teachers: Jerry Jalazo, Ilene Friedman
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The Questing Year
Sixth graders undertake four quests designed to help them seek and discover their own answers to deep life questions about human faith and the web of all existence. Connected through the central themes of social action and spiritual search, the Mystery Quest, the UU Quest, the Action Quest and the Inner Quest are both challenging and fun.
Teachers: Dana Gumb, Gray Hirshfield, Dan Kluger, Mary Ralph
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