Children and Youth Religious Education
The Sunday children's program will be presented online through Zoom video conferencing until further notice. Classes are currently on summer break but will recommences on August 16. The Religious Education for Children Coordinator will supply login information to families known to have children in the program. If you are not on the notification list, please email Kelly Sommer (kelly.winton@gmail.com)
Our Goal
Our goal is to provide our young people with a safe and nurturing environment and activities that will help them develop their own spiritual path and positive sense of self as they learn about and practice the values expressed in our UU Principles.
We believe that:
everyone is important,
all people should be treated fairly and kindly,
we should accept one another and keep learning together,
each person must be free to search for what is true and right in life,
all people should have a vote about the things that concern them,
we need to work for a peaceful, fair and free world,
we must care for our planet Earth which we share with all living things.
In our classes for children and youth we strive to:
stir up their minds.
encourage them to look inquiringly and steadily with their own eyes.
inspire a love of learning and truth.
encourage them to listen to their inner voice.
prepare them to think independently.
quicken and strengthen the power of thought.
everyone is important,
all people should be treated fairly and kindly,
we should accept one another and keep learning together,
each person must be free to search for what is true and right in life,
all people should have a vote about the things that concern them,
we need to work for a peaceful, fair and free world,
we must care for our planet Earth which we share with all living things.
In our classes for children and youth we strive to:
stir up their minds.
encourage them to look inquiringly and steadily with their own eyes.
inspire a love of learning and truth.
encourage them to listen to their inner voice.
prepare them to think independently.
quicken and strengthen the power of thought.
Our Program
The UUFSA’s Classes for Children and Youth will resume Sunday, August 16. For the safety of all, classes will be virtual on ZOOM until it becomes safe for us to meet in person. Classes are tentatively scheduled to begin 12:30 PM on Sundays and run for about an hour, however the start time is flexible, depending on feed-back from parents.
We are excited about the curriculum we have selected for this congregational year Harry and UU (http://www.imagine-re.com/harry-and-uu.html). |
This is a social action curriculum that uses the Harry Potter stories of magic and wizardry as a springboard to immerse students in the idea that they have the power to make the world a better place.
Students will become Enchanting Activists and will fight seven real-world “Horcruxes “such as Illiteracy, Hunger, Poverty, Sickness, Animal Cruelty, Environments degradation, Child Slavery.
Four Sundays will be devoted to understanding and combatting each Horcrux, and each series of classes will lead to a tangible result.
This curriculum gives students the opportunity to make a difference in their community and the world in a meaningful way through fun, hands-on projects that also teach them social responsibility. Although this curriculum uses the Harry Potter stories as a springboard, children need not have read the Harry Potter stories to fully participate.
Since we will conduct classes virtually, we will provide each student with most of the needed supplies, ideally one packet of supplies per month containing a separate envelope for each class. Depending on our parents’ needs, we will either mail the packet to you or leave it at a central location for you to pick up. Other supplies are common household items that we hope you will be able to make available to your student. We will send you a list of these supplies well in advance.
To assure that we get supplies for every Activist, please let us know if your child would like to participate. Students are welcome to join any time throughout the year. However, to register your Activist in time to fight the first Hocrux, please send an email to Professor Kelly Sommer (kelly.winton@gmail.com) by August 7.
