Author: Dan Harper

Contents:
1. May calendar
2. From your Associate Minister of Religious Education
3. Intergenerational Flower Communion
4. Intergenerational Peace Experiments service
5. Service opportunity for families with children
6. Family dinner on March 3
7. CYRE Newsletter online

1. May calendar

Tues., May 1, 7:15 p.m.: Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting. Contact Heather Chen, chair
Sat., May 5, 11:30 a.m.: Service opportunity for families with children (see below).
   and from 5-7 p.m.: Family dinner at UUCPA (see below).
Sunday, May 6: “Peace Experiments” continues. Maypole dancing, and middle school Morris dancers after the first service, ice cream social.
Sunday, May 13: Intergenerational Flower Communion service (see below)
   and from 11-noon: Parent Journey. Contact: Kristen-Marie Freeman Williams
Sunday, May 20: Intergenerational “Peace Experiments” service (see below)
   and at 12:30: Open meeting to plan for next year’s Coming of Age program for gr. 8-9.
Sunday, May 27: No Sunday school, child care only. Continue reading “UUCPA RE newsletter: May, 2012”

Contents:
1. April calendar
2. From your Associate Minister of Religious Education
3. Intergenerational Easter service and Easter egg hunt
4. Spring project: “Peace Experiments”
5. UUCPA Passover Seder

1. April calendar

Sunday, April 1, 11-noon: Parent Journey, topic: “Discipline and Limit Setting.” Contact: Kristen-Marie Freeman Williams (email address in your email version of this newsletter).
Tues., April 3, 7:15 p.m.: Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting. Contact Heather Chen, chair (email address in your email version of this newsletter).
Saturday, April 7, 5:30 pm: Passover Seder (see below)
Sunday, April 8: Intergenerational Easter service with easter egg hunt between the services(see below)
Sunday, April 15: First week for “Peace Experiments” (see below)
Sunday, April 22, 10:30 a.m.: Fourth Sunday brunch

N.B.: For OWL schedules, please see separate email! Continue reading “UUCPA RE Newsletter: April, 2012”

Contents:
1. March calendar
2. From your Associate Minister of Religious Education
3. Service opportunity for families with children
4. Family dinner on March 3
5. Workshop on special needs kids and Sunday school

1. March calendar

Sat., Mar. 3, 11:30 a.m.: Service opportunity for families with children (see below).
Sat., Mar. 3, 5-7 p.m.: Family dinner at UUCPA (see below).
Tues., Mar. 6, 7:15 p.m.: Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting. Contact Heather Chen, chair.
Sun., Mar. 11, 11 a.m.: Parent Journey, discussion/conversation group for parents. Child care provided.
Sat., Mar. 17, 9:30-4:30, UUCPA hosts a Bay Area training on integrating special needs kids into Sunday school (see below).
Sun., Mar. 25, 10:30 a.m.: Fourth Sunday Brunch, served by Edie Keating and the “Teal” Sunday school class. Continue reading “UUCPA RE newsletter: March, 2012”

Welcome to the once-a-month email newsletter for the UUCPA children and youth programs! This newsletter is sent via email to all families with children and teens enrolled in the religious education programs at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto. For your convenience, the monthly newsletter will also be posted on this blog.

Contents of the February, 2012, newsletter:
1. February calendar
2. Infant/toddler care information
3. Midyear evaluations
4. Note from Dan

1. February calendar

Tues., Feb. 7, 7:15 p.m.: Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting. Contact Heather Chen, chair, heather.chen@gmail.com
Sun., Feb. 12, 10:30-11 a.m.: Make Valentine’s cards for elders in Stevenson House next door.
Sun., Feb. 12, 11 a.m.: Parent Journey, discussion/conversation group for parents. Child care provided.
Sun., Feb. 12, 5-7 p.m.: Canvass Celebration — The annual party thrown by the Canvass Committee. They won’t ask you for money, they’ll just feed you pizza and beer (including root beer for kids), and provide child care. Please email childcare/at/uucpa/dot/org if you plan to bring your children to child care.
Sun., Feb. 26, 10:30 a.m.: Fourth Sunday Brunch, served by Edie Keating and the “Teal” Sunday school class. Continue reading “UUCPA RE newsletter: February, 2012”