by Kitty Merrill | Feb 27, 2017 | Religious Ed News
The UU Kids Corps puts RE values and teachings into action, giving kids and families volunteer opportunities with a minimal time commitment from parents.
Here’s how it works:
Our goal is to provide a service/social action event each month. Twelve families will sign up to coordinate one event. For an hour’s effort, you get a year’s worth of activism!
Possible activities include:
- Work with UU RiverHaven outreach • Sing at a nursing home • Volunteer at an animal shelter event • Join in a beach cleanup day • Make care packages for homeless folks • Develop kids activities at a protest march
Many organizations have activities and a coordinator for a particular event The coordinator will need to know a date, numbers of attendees, and any age or accessibility restrictions.
A signup sheet will be posted at all the classrooms. You determine the activity, the date and time. Contact Vanessa Frank for ideas and support.
by Kitty Merrill | Aug 1, 2016 | Religious Ed News
Our study of the Channel Islands continues this month with Mark and Krista Mendelsohn teaching about the National Park Service and their amazing programs to recover the life and habitat of our ocean. Then we’ll view the National Marine Sanctuary: the kelp forests, marine preserves and their essential role in the life of the ocean, including learning about how litter and trash destroy the life in the ocean and lead to weakening and disappearance of vital areas within our ocean. We will also be learning life sustaining ways to take care of our trash and litter.
We are thrilled with your response to our Teacher Recruitment Town Hall. Please save Saturday, August 27 for Teacher training that morning. We feel very fortunate that our newly arrived minister, Rev Dana will join us to lead our training along with experienced teachers and members of the RE Committee.
Please consider your volunteer teaching as an integral part of your spiritual work. Teaching Religious Education to our children can be as deepening for our spiritual life as attending our Worship service. In fact they both complement each other for most teachers. Our workable compromise is to provide for continuity with our children and at the same time to give our teachers two Sundays to attend the worship service – the best of “both worlds.” Our goal is to have two teaching teams for each class; each teaching two weeks per month. A substitute teacher will be a regular part of the team when needed.
In addition, our RE team has support for you: just give us a list of your materials, books, posters, music, charts, letters home, two weeks before you teach and we will have it all in your room before you arrive Sunday morning. We are ready to assist you in any detail of planning you need, questions you have about teaching children, using the curriculum, teaching songs, doing followup activities, dealing with special needs of children.
We welcome all your questions and will give you tours to acquaint you with our rooms, play yard, equipment, teachers library and children’s library. The sign up logs are on the table outside the RE Director’s office in Berg Hall. For more information please see Joyce Faber, Acting DRE
OWL Our Whole Lives Classes will begin in the fall for 3rd and 4th grade and Sr HS. See Vel Akseven, Coordinator, for info.
Children’s, Choir, led by Carolyn Howard, returns in the fall.
With Love and Faith, Joyce Faber, dre@uuventura.org
by Kitty Merrill | Nov 27, 2015 | Religious Ed News
Playroom
Tender, loving, and interactive care for infants and children under age four is provided by trained, professional caregivers 15 minutes prior to the service, during worship, and during social hour from 9:45-11:45 in our Nursery from 9:45-11:15 and outdoor playground from 11:15-11:45.
by Kitty Merrill | Nov 26, 2015 | Religious Ed News
Picture Book UU! Teaches young children about the love, reason, tolerance and good works that make up our faith and the art of self-expression, to value individuality, to think for themselves and simplify their lives.
This curriculum is fun, friendly, and concise with teachable moments that introduce our faith to young children. Each lesson includes a sharing circle, storybook that teaches our values, an activity, and a closing statement.
