Youth Religious Education: Elementary
Grades K - 1
9:30 & 11:30
Curriculum: Love Surrounds Us & Free to Believe
Love Surrounds Us explores all our seven Principles in the context of
Beloved Community of family/home, school, and neighborhood. Participants engage
in activities that emphasize the love they feel in community. Sessions based on
the Principles allow children to articulate their faith in the world. Participants
come knowing they are Unitarian Universalists, and leave knowing why, as the
Principles help answer the question, "Why do I belong?"
Free to Believe also focuses on our seven UU Principles as starting points
for exploring values, beliefs and what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist.
Lessons will also examine some "big questions" through the perspective of our
Unitarian Universalist Sources.
Grades K - 1 Parent Letter
Grades K - 1 Curriculum Plan
Grades 2 - 3
9:30 & 11:30
Curriculum: Love Will Guide Us & Free to Believe
Love Will Guide Us encourages participants to learn and seek guidance
in life through the lens of our Unitarian Universalist Sources, with an emphasis
on love. Together we ask questions such as, "Where did we come from?", "What is
our relationship to the Earth and other creatures?", "How can we respond with love,
even in bad situations?", "What happens when you die?" Sessions apply wisdom from
our Sources to help participants answer these questions. Participants will learn
that asking questions is valued in Unitarian Universalism, even as they begin to
shape their own answers.
Free to Believe focuses on our seven UU Principles as starting points for
exploring values, beliefs and what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist.
Lessons will also explore our UU Sources through exploration of some of life's
"big questions."
Grades 2 - 3 Parent Letter
Grades 2 - 3 Curriculum Plan
Grades 4 - 5
9:30 & 11:30
Curriculum: Love Connects Us & We Believe
Love Connects Us celebrates important ways Unitarian Universalists live our
faith in covenanted community. The sessions explore our legacy, from both Universalism
and Unitarianism, of living our connections in loving service, inquiry, and action for s
ocial justice. At the same time, the program builds active participants in our faith.
Children learn how our actions create a new heritage of connecting in love which will
shape the faith of future generations.
We Believe focuses on our seven UU Principles as starting points for exploring
values, beliefs and what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist. Lessons will also
explore UU historical figures and how they embodied these Principles and shaped our faith.
Grades 4 - 5 Parent Letter
Grades 4 - 5 Curriculum Plan
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