CHILDREN'S GROUPS
Nursery: Infants and Toddlers
Aides: David Karp and Senior High Youth
For the youngest children we provide warm, friendly care. We ask parents to stay with their children until they feel comfortable. Please pick up your children immediately after the service ends.
Three – five year olds:
Leaders: Kristine Cucinello and TBD
Assts: Mena Ostapchuk, Phyllis Gorwitz, Jamina Hajagos, Maria & Pete Kata, Dan Dunmire
The Chalice Children curriculum is based on the philosophy that a child’s spiritual development is related to direct experience. This curriculum helps young children learn about what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist, to engage in sharing with others and to explore a sense of belonging through stories and activities.
Kindergarten & 1st Grade:
Leaders: Michele Maggio, Janet Karp
Assts: Kelly O’Donnell, Carol Castillo, Janos Hajagos and ….TBD
Around the Fellowship, Around the Year and UU Super Heroes are curricula that allow children to become acquainted with our Fellowship - the people, the building, our traditions and celebrations, as well as the basic tenets of Unitarian Universalism
Second & Third Grades:
Leaders: Janet Kagel, Wendy Engelhardtk, Judy Damore
Asst: TBD
Free to Believe & We Believe are curricula that enable children to explore our Unitarian Universalist principles, values and beliefs through hands-on activities, stories, games, songs and discussions. The children will learn to recognize and incorporate the seven principles in their own lives as their emotional, social and spiritual lives are nurtured.
Fourth & Fifth Grades:
Leaders: Gretta Johnson-Sally, Wendy Engelhardt
Assts: TBD
Children will develop age appropriate understandings of their religious identity, our seven Unitarian Universalist principles and of their own spirituality, using lessons from the Questing Year and Stepping Stone Year curricula. During the year lessons from these curricula will help the children find answers to important life questions, learn to accept diversity, engage in meditative thought and participate in social justice projects
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YOUTH GROUPS
Sixth – Eighth Grades: Middle School
Leaders: Nancy Hunter, Deborah Hempe
The Compass Points and Traditions with a Wink curricula enable youth to begin to sort out their feelings about themselves and their world, discover what they believe about life’s big questions - the nature of humanity and God, beliefs about death and faith - and to acquire enough background in Unitarian Universalist history and theology that they can know and express what Unitarian Universalism is and stands for.
Ninth –Twelfth Grades: Sr. High Youth
Sunday Morning -Leader: Gil Hanson
Evening Youth Group-Leaders: Melissa Elliott and Lori Jones
In these groups, young people meet and discuss topics ranging from current issues in Unitarian Universalism and other religions, to their spirituality. The morning group is working on a Unitarian Universalist Identity service they will lead on Oct. 25. The evening group, which meets from 5:30-7:30 pm, is planning for a CON, which they are hosting here at UUFSB on Oct. 16-18. Youth will also select social action projects such as Christmas Magic and Midnight Run. |
