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Children
& Youth Religious Education Program 2007 - 2008
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Nursery -
Infants and
Toddlers:
Meet in
the teacher’s
lounge behind the cafeteria. They are
supervised under the loving care of Marta Velasco who has been employed
with us
for five years. The Nursery is open from 10:15am until immediately
after the
service.
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Pre-Kindergarten
–
Kindergarten 4 – 5 years
This
program will follow
the values based lessons used by
the older children in the Workshop Rotation Model. The children will
have the
same teachers throughout the year and will not rotate classrooms.
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Workshop
Rotation
Classes, Grades 1 – 5
We are
pleased to
continue our Workshop Rotation Model for
our children in grades 1 – 5 this year. This model teaches major
religious
education themes through kid-friendly multimedia workshops: Art, Drama
(puppetry, storytelling etc), Computers, Video, etc. The
multi-intelligences
approach is designed to take advantage of our children’s multi-modal
learning
styles. Each class will have a Guide whose role is to stay with the
same class
for the entire session and provide the consistency and structure for
the
morning.
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Middle
School – That
Special Time, Grades 6 – 8
We felt
the
middle school students needed a Workshop
Rotation Model to meet the developmental needs of their particular age
group.
Borrowing from other congregations we came up with an idea for a
“Newsletter”.
In this model the kids serve as “investigative journalists” for that
publication. They have a “news room” in which there are laptop
computers and a
conference table where they can sit and share ideas. Then the teacher
assigns
them to different “beats” and sends them out to be investigative
journalists
observing the younger kids’ workshops. They discuss what they are
learning and
write their story. When the newsletter is complete it goes to print and
winds
up as an insert in the Order of Service and is sent out in the weekly
email! The kids enjoy it and the
congregation at large gets an entertaining update on what the kids are
doing,
from a kid’s perspective. The authors of the story get a kick out of
seeing
people read and enjoy their stories – and the younger kids love being
written
about!
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Our
Values Based
Workshop Rotation Sessions for grades K – 5, 6 – 8
Our shared values will be
explored, based on the Principles
they reflect – each set of values has key concepts that will be taught
in the
workshops.
Session
1 –
August 26 – September 23
Belonging,
Worship and
Reflection
Session
2 -
September 30 – October 21
Love,
Tolerance, and
Acceptance
Session
3 –
October 28 – November 18
Honesty
and Search for
Meaning
Session
4 –
January 13 – February 10
Peace,
Service and
Responsibility
Session
5 –
February 24 - March 16
Forgiveness
and
Justice
Session
6 –
April 20
Intergenerational
Religious Education- “We Care
for Earth’s Lifeboat” classes begin Sunday,
April 20th at 9:30am ; The class will explore our relationship
with nature as part of the interdependent web of life, looks at our
carbon footprint and how it affects the planet, and offers suggestions
for things that we can do right now. For more details on the class
& how to sign-up see LIFEBOAT.
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Correspondence
Information :
324
S. University Drive
Plantation,
Florida 33324
Phone:
954-474-2007
Fax:
954-474-2022
Office: uuriverofgrass@aol.com
Rev. Naomi King, Minister
Ila Klion,
President
Deb
Giblin-Davis, Director of Religious Education
Gayle Giese,
Director of Music Ministry
Leana
Bresnahan & Karen Morris, Membership Co-Chairs
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