Nursery (infant through 2 year olds)

9:30 and 11:30 am

Childcare and developmentally appropriate playtime to develop a sense of belonging in this space. Parents are welcome to stay and participate with their children anytime they wish. Snacks are served.

Preschool (3 and 4 year olds)

9:30 and 11:30 am

We Are Many We Are One: Based on the philosophy that young children learn about religion through relationships, this program encourages children to use their minds, bodies, and emotions to develop their sense of identity and self-esteem within the Unitarian Universalist community and the world. This class is lead by a professional trained in early childhood development and assisted by parent volunteers. Parents are always welcome to participate with their children in this class. A snack is served each morning.

Kindergarten/First Grade

9:30 and 11:30 am

Creating Home: The sessions include stories from Unitarian Universalist and other traditions, hands-on activities to make learning accessible to individuals with various learning styles, and structured opportunities for questioning, reflecting, and self-expression. The program introduces children to Unitarian Universalist heritage, including rituals, songs, and traditions of our faith, and stories about Unitarian Universalists whose words, songs, and deeds have helped to shape the faith home that participants share.

Wonderful Welcome Field-Beta Test: The Wonderful Welcome curriculum engages and challenges leaders and children alike 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 entities that are not people such as our animal friends and nature itself.

Staffed by adult volunteers who have been trained by and are supported by ministers and religious educators.

Second Grade/Third Grade

9:30 and 11:30 am

Faithful Journeys: Participants embark on a pilgrimage of faith, exploring how Unitarian Universalism translates into life choices and everyday actions. In each session, they hear historic or contemporary examples of Unitarian Universalist faith in action. Stories about real people model how participants can activate their own personal agency - their capacity to act faithfully as Unitarian Universalists - in their own lives, and children have regular opportunities to share and affirm their own stories of faithful action. Through sessions structured around the Unitarian Universalist Principles, Faithful Journeys demonstrates that our Principles are not a dogma, but a credo that individuals can affirm with many kinds of action. Over the course of the program, children discover a unity of faith in the many different ways Unitarian Universalists, including themselves, can act on our beliefs.

Moral Tales: Every day our children go forth into a complex world where they are often faced with difficult decisions and situations. Moral Tales attempts to provide children with the spiritual and ethical tools they will need to make choices and take actions reflective of their Unitarian Universalist beliefs and values. Each session has a central story in which participants meet real and fictional heroes and heroines who have displayed moral courage and spiritual greatness. They will hear about characters who have struggled, but who have chosen justice, goodness, and love. If you implement the Gems of Goodness Project (introduced in Session 2 and continued through the remainder of the program), children will have regular opportunities to create and share their own stories, in which they are actors for justice and goodness.

Staffed by adult volunteers who have been trained and are supported by ministers and religious educators

Fourth Grade/Fifth Grade

9:30 and 11:30 am

Toolbox of Faith: This curricula invites fourth- and fifth- grade participants to reflect on the qualities of our Unitarian Universalist faith, such as integrity, courage, and love, as tools they can use in living their lives and building their own faith. Each of the 16 sessions uses a tool as a metaphor for an important quality of our faith such as reflection (symbolized by a mirror), flexibility (duct tape), and justice (a flashlight).

Windows and Mirrors: This curricula nurtures children's ability to identify their own experiences and perspectives and to seek out, care about and respect those of others. The sessions unpack topics that lend themselves to diverse experiences and perspectives-for example, faith heritage, public service, anti-racism and prayer. The program teaches that there are always multiple viewpoints and everyone's viewpoint matters. The metaphor of windows and mirrors represents the dynamic relationship among our awareness of self, our perceptions of others, and others' perceptions of us.

Staffed by adult volunteers who have been trained and are supported by ministers and religious educators.