3rd- 5th Grades
Willow Room – Classroom 5 2018-19 Curriculum: Spirit of Adventure
Designed for more active kids, this curriculum uses challenge and adventure to teach character-building, values, and the UU sources, and principles.
Youth Group
Youth group – Garage aka Drumbeat
Teens and youth meet in the garage after the bridge of love in the Sunday service.
This group offers its members a safe place to share their lives and find support and friendship among open minded and loving peers. The group engages in discussions about issues relevant to youth’s lives and communities.
6th-8th Grades
Jedi Academy! Offers padawans an opportunity to develop practical spiritual skills including skill, sense, courage, insight, and spirit. The focus is mindfulness.
Jedi are the guardians of peace in the galaxy. Jedi use their powers to defend and protect. Jedi respect all life, in any form. Jedi serve others rather than ruling over them, for the good of the galaxy. Jedi seek to improve themselves through knowledge and training.
The world of the Jedi has inspired real-life practices of spirituality. The Jedi believe in the “living Force”, a spiritual presence that surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds all the matter in the universe together.
If this program were summed up in one word, it would be “Mindfulness.” The Jedi students learn to pay close attention to their experience of themselves and the world around them. They develop spiritual skills in five training categories: Physical training, Senses, Courage, Insight, and Spirit.
At the end of the year if the pass the five trials, they will be ceremonially knighted as Jedi Knights!
