| Our children in Kindergarten through Sixth Grade meet in two separate
groups to participate in age appropriate activities that comprise
a balanced religious education program. In order to insure that our
children are well grounded in the many different aspects of our religious
tradition, we have chosen four basic areas of religious education
content that we want our children to become familiar with. We call
these areas pillars. We divide each year into four study sections,
or pillars. Every fall we start with Unitarian Universalist History
and Ideas. The other three pillars follow through the course of the
year.
Both groups study the same pillars through the year, through activities
designed for their age group and from different angles each time.
Using this approach, our children can build on what they have already
learned, and those who are new to the group will get to experience
a broad sense of our program in the first year. We are careful to
show the relevance of each pillar to our Unitarian Universalist
values. Over their years in the program, we hope to help them develop
a strong foundation in these areas:
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UU Justice Making:
which includes UU Social Justice in which we learn about
the long tradition of UU justice makers; we celebrate diversity
among us; we learn how to build bridges with all people; and we
learn the part that each of us can play in helping to make the world
a better place. This pillar also includes Earth Stewardship
in which we foster greater sensitivity toward the environment, a
sense of connectedness and belonging, an understanding that we are
not separate and apart from the rest of the universe but an integral
part of it.
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