Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Read below to see the full set of
activities available for our children and youth this Sunday.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. SOCIAL
HOUR SNACKS: We want
to ensure that there are healthy and inviting snacks on our social hour snack
table for our kids. The social hour team will be including some bars, apple
slices, and graham crackers each week. If you’re shopping and you see something
that would be good to include on the snack table for our kids, please pick it
up and drop it off in the kitchen. Just label it “for kids.” Thank you!
2. CRAFTS
AND COFFEE: Join
us on Friday mornings in the church library (3rd floor) from 10-12
to visit, enjoy your coffee, and help to create crafts to be used in the RE
program. Babies and children are invited! Contact Stina Lane-Cummings (stina@kempf.com) or
Betsy Lowry (dre@wsuu.org).
THIS WEEK:
Story
Time: This
week our children will share a story and snack together. Please let the
teachers in the class know if your child has a food allergy.
Spirit
Play: Our preschoolers will enjoy a favorite story this week – “The
Carrot Seed,” followed by a discussion of “wondering questions” and creative
play.
Kindergarten
through Second Grade: “Wonderful Welcome”:
This
week’s lesson is about the gift of families. This session's intangible gift is
sharing positive qualities such as kindness, respect and care with the people
in our families. Although we do not usually get to choose them, some of our
best friends can be the people we live with. The children will explore what it
means to share in our families. What do we share, and how? What do we give one
another that is tangible and what do we give one another that is not?
The
Gift of Kindness was introduced in Session 4. Kindness is revisited in this
session, along with respect and caring. The focus is on our relationships with
the people we spend the most time with — the people in our families. Children
will paint images of Chinese characters for words like “kindness” to hang on
the walls at home.
Third
through Fifth Grades: “Love Will Guide Us”:
This week the class will
explore our fourth Unitarian Universalist Source, “Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love
by loving our neighbors as ourselves." Jesus called on his followers to live in service to those in need;
this service strengthens community. Children hear a story of Jesus' life and
explore the concept of community. They will have some adventures in exploring
the Bible, and they will examine mustard seeds and the story Jesus told in the
book of Matthew about mustard seeds growing as love grows.
Middle
School: This
week, our middle school class will work together to shape a social justice
project that they will implement this spring. They will also examine the big
question, “Why do bad things happen?”
Stay tuned, middle school families – your middle schooler will
be invited to a social event soon, and to participate in one of two bands we
are starting this spring! More information coming soon!
High
School: “Our Name is Earl”:
Our high school class is meeting this week with Suki and Ed for more of
our favorite characters from this humorous and endearing sitcom!
Youth Group will meet in the Social Hall from 7:00pm to
8:30pm with Shelby and Cole.
I am away at a training for Directors of Religious Education
this week, but you will see Joe Nabbefeld greeting, and Julie Forkasdi and Kim
Frappier will be helping with the RE program.
Have fun, and I’ll see you next week!
Betsy
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