Children's Religious Education
In our religious education class for children, we strive to provide an informative and fun Unitarian Universalist educational experience.
In addition to curriculums such as Wonderful World by Aisha Hauser and Susan Lawrence and Love Surrounds Us by Christy Olson and Lynn Kerr, we include a special month of Earth Day activities with Tirrell H. Kimball’s Caring for Our Planet Earth.
For younger children, Love Surrounds Us
looks at the core of our Seven Principles. The Principles encompass all
the ingredients of a good and faith-filled life based on equality,
freedom, peace, acceptance, truth, care, and love. This program explores
all the Principles in the context of Beloved Community of family/home,
school, neighborhood. Participants engage in activities that emphasize the
love they feel in community.
In the Wonderful World curriculum,
children identify intangible gifts central to our faith such as
friendship, hospitality and fairness, and share these gifts with others.
It engages and challenges children to explore how and why we are
willing to welcome others into our lives. We welcome not only
strangers, but family, our peers, our neighbors and even our animal
friends and nature itself.
The theme of Caring for Our Planet Earth is
caring for the environment through recycling and other ways of preserving
the earth and resources with activities, songs, stories and art projects.
Affirming our Seventh Principle, “respect for the
interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part” includes Earth
and Her Resources, Reduce and Reuse, Recycle, and You Can Help.