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Men are brothers 
in good deeds
regardless of their
different creeds.
PHILIP M. LARSON


Sunday Schedule

Classes and Curriculum
Sep 2007—May 2008  
Emerson Church provides a complete Religious Education program that includes age-appropriate Church School classes for toddlers through high school. We strive to engage our children and youth in a program founded on our UU principles and values while providing a safe and nurturing environment conducive to developing their own spiritual identity. Our RE program is a very vital, energetic part of our church community.

All classes start promptly at 10 AM.

Children’s Curriculum

 Opening Service
(1st–5th grades)

Room 108

The Opening Service in Schweitzer Hall for our fifth grade and under group starts each Sunday with an inspiring communal gathering before splitting into their separate classes. There is a theme for each Sunday - among them have been: Creative Sharing, Unity, In/Out Trouble, Win-win situations, Ramadan, and Thanksgiving. We have 10 minutes of opening words, chalice lighting, song and program, then break for classes. Jill Rose has done a wonderful job of putting most of these programs together. Any other members who have ideas they would like to contribute should contact Jill or Jo Ann Reeves.

 Infants to 2yr olds

Emerson Nursery

Childcare is provided in the Nursery area.  

 2yr and 3yr olds

Room 104

We Are Many; We Are One Young children are encouraged to learn how to work and play cooperatively, express their feelings about themselves and others, and see the congregation as a place to make and care for friends. They will also learn to appreciate how we are alike yet different, view nature as a source of gifts that needs our care, and celebrate the different religions and cultures of the earth.

 4yr and 5yr olds

Room 105

Spirit Play This course is a newly developed Unitarian Universalist Association curriculum based on “Godly Play” developed by Jerome Berryman. It uses the Montessori teaching approach. The curriculum offers an alternative to the same old way of teaching religion to children; teaches children how to learn and work together, and shows how children can seek and find their own answers to their faith questions.

 1st grade

Room 107

A Discovering Year This curriculum seeks to develop sequential connections between religious and spiritual knowledge and growth by focusing on four Unitarian Universalist Principles: that each person is special and important, that we should treat each other fairly and kindly; that we should accept each other and learn together; and that we should take care of our earth.

 2nd and 3rd grades

Room 108

Special Times This curriculum acquaints children with the Jewish and Christian heritages from which our UU beliefs have grown and engages them in celebrations of Jewish and Christian holidays and other “special times”. This course will help children see and honor the diversity and unity of both religious heritages.

 4th and 5th grades

Room 111

 Jesus and His Kingdom of Equals This curriculum depicts Jesus as a reformer who urged the creation of a just society. Students will see Jesus as a man of his time and yet ahead of his time in his promotion of personal responsibility, radical nonviolence, fairness, and equality.
 

Youth Curriculum

 6th and 7th grades

Room 209

Compass Points This curriculum asks questions central to an adolescent’s spiritual journey: “What do I want from life?” “Why do some people do good things and others bad things?”“What do I believe in?” “What is of value and how may it affect the rest of my life?”.

 8th grade

Room 207

Coming of Age In an intensive year long program, eighth grade youth, working alongside a trusted adult mentor, explore the many facets of Unitarian Universalism while learning to articulate their own religious and spiritual beliefs. Questions are encouraged about God, death, and religion. From this course of study, students will develop more mature value systems from which they will act in the future.  

 High School (LRY)

Room 208

Thinking the Web Students learn to organize and develop their thoughts and moral values systematically and logically and see how moral issues affect the rights of individuals, nations, and the world. Taught how to posit their own ideas against differently held view points, students evaluate what, how, and why they react to moral issues and how their thinking corresponds to or is different from the UUA position on that issue.
 


After class at 11 AM, children in Pre-K classes are picked up by their parents to be taken to child care or to accompany them into the sanctuary. Parents should also pick up their older children from their classrooms and go into the sanctuary together. Older youth will also join the rest of our church family in the sanctuary for the beginning of worship until excused for Activity/Youth hours.
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