Sunday, May 25, 12:00 noon - 1:45 PM: Parent Connections Group Meeting - A gathering for parents of children 0-8. Topic: How to answer your kids' "big questions". We'll meet for lunch (bring a bag lunch) in room 4, then have our meeting with drama games for the kids with Laura Hidebrandt (teacher with CYPT). Please sign up in Wickenden Hall by May 18 and provide the names and ages of your children.

Sunday, June 1, 10:30 AM: Children's worship. Children should come directly downstairs to Room 1 instead of going into Panabaker Hall.

** THE UNITARIAN CHURCH OF CALGARY IS A NUT-FREE ZONE **

Programs for 2007-2008 (September through June)

• We understand that children do not develop at the same rate – all age and class groupings are flexible.
• Nursery (ages 0-2): Childcare for babies and toddlers is available in our nursery from 10:20 – 11:45 AM every Sunday.
• Preschool (ages 3-4): We Are Many, We Are One - This curriculum offeres the opportunity to learn about religious community and tradition. The four units in this program encourage children to use their minds, bodies, and emotions to develop their sense of identity and self-esteem within the Unitarian community and their world. The curriculum will alternate with supervised play times.
• Division One (kindergarten-grade 3): Spirit Play – This is a curriculum of stories about Unitarian principles, famous people and events in Unitarian history, and our Jewish and Christian heritage. The stories are told using props and are followed by a "wondering" session and art response.
• Division Two (grades 4-6): A Growing Up Year - This curriculum contains two key areas: 1) self-knowledge and interpersonal awareness through art, drama, poetry, discussion, games, and interaction with others and 2) knowledge of Unitarian Universalism as well as other world religions.
• Junior Youth (grades 7-9) and Senior Youth (grades 10-12+): please visit our Youth Programs page.

First Time?

• Please visit our Welcome Table to pick up a name-tag and for information about our church and children's programs.
• If you have a baby or toddler, you may want take your child to the nursery at 10:20 AM to settle them in (the greeters in the church foyer will direct you) or you are welcome to keep your child with you during the service.
• Older children, including preschoolers, should go with you to Panabaker Hall for the start of the service.
• After the Story for All segment of the service, you should accompany your children downstairs to the appropriate classrooms (signs on the doors will indicate the class age groupings).
• Please introduce yourself and your children to the teachers or the Director of Religious Education, Sandy Cooper. After these introductions, you may rejoin the service in Panabaker Hall. 
• Immediately after the service and before joining the congregation for coffee, you should go downstairs and collect younger children from their classrooms. Older children can go by themselves to Wickenden Hall and join you during coffee-time. 
• There are several multi-generational services throughout the year, which are intended to involve everyone (preschool to the elderly) in a meaningful, community building, spiritual event. During multi-generational services, there will be no children's classes, but the nursery will operate as usual.

Did you know that our Regious Education program here at the Unitarian Church of Calgary is the first church school in Canada to receive Green School recognition from the Seeds Foundation? To do this, our church school has done a number of environmental projects over the last few years, which counted toward our Green School Status.

Here are some of the things that we have done:

• cleaned up the school yard every June for the past 3 years
• participated in the Alberta Wildnerness Association's Tower climb for at least 3 years
• did a yard clean-up for Rev. Meg Roberts, sending materials for composting and recycling
• took on the "One Tonne Challenge" and shared achievements with the congregation (Youth Group)
• a poem, "Mother Earth", was published in our RE newsletter (Ammie Ascanius, youth group member, was the author)
• did a play to help raise funds for the World Wildlife Federation (Division 1)
• participated in a play called "Stewards of the Earth"
• used a recycling boxes in the classrooms for over 3 years
• attended a Waste Management Workshop
• began an energy audit of the church
• learned about ways to help the environment at home
• supported the "Seeds for Survivial" program

Sandy Cooper – Director of Religious Education

• Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
• Direct phone: (403) 230-4146
• Email: Sandy