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Sunday School Curricula for 2007–08

We have chosen a variety of engaging and educational curricula for each age group in our Sunday school program.

Preschool (ages 3 and 4)

The Unitarian Universalist curriculum Celebrating Me and My World begins by celebrating the wondrous qualities of our children themselves, then expands outward to the things and people around them. This program provides preschoolers with experiences and opportunities to develop their sense of trust and caring, their self-identity, and their sense of connectedness with all of life.

Kindergarten–Grade 1

Around the Church, Around the Year is a curriculum about our UU community: its people, buildings, and rituals. By the end of this program, our children will know much more about the physical and social life of the church and will have the beginnings of an overall understanding of our faith. They also will have explored their feelings about themselves and their relationship to our religious community.

Grades 2–3

The year-long curriculum for our second and third graders, Experiences with the Web of Life, involves children with one of our Unitarian Universalist principles: respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. Learning to understand this principle is a deeply religious undertaking. Our emphasis on values, including this UU principle, differentiates this curriculum from what children learn about ecology at their weekday schools.

Grades 4–5

The first curriculum for our fourth and fifth graders, Travel in Time, is an exciting, hands-on program. Children will gain a deeper understanding of the principles of the UU faith, perceive the relevance of those principles to contemporary times and to their own lives, and develop a sense of the connectedness between life events and individual religious beliefs.

The second curriculum, We Believe, focuses on learning and living our UU principles. The program introduces each UU principle in a creative and fun way, then helps children internalize each principle using art, games, songs, skits, and discussions.

Junior High

In the Neighboring Faiths curriculum, our junior high school youth will actively encounter the traditions of other religious groups in our community. They will explore what members of other faiths believe, value, and do as a religious people; discover ways to understand our new multireligious reality; and learn the meaning of Unitarian Universalism and our foundational commitment to religious freedom.

During the year, we will also be offering the junior high portion of the UUA's Our Whole Lives sexuality program to our seventh through ninth graders. A parent orientation will be held beforehand, and participation in the program is voluntary.