Kids Religious Exploration
  Joyce Zaugg Director of Religious Exploration 662-2346 dre@uulosalamos.org Also, see the related information about the Adult RE program.
Our Sunday School program runs for two hours each Sunday. From 9:30-10:15am we hold regular Religious Exploration classes for all ages. From 10:30-11:30am we have our regular Sunday Service. The children go to the regular service each week for about 10-15 minutes. The children take part in the Chalice lighting, first hymn, first reading, announcements, and sharing. They are usually dismissed after Children's Time. They then go to their own service which lasts about 10 minutes. After the Children's Worship, they participate in The Children's Hour, which is an independent study program. Please read my monthly article, REJoyce for updates about our Religious Exploration program.
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Nursery
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Nursery Supervisor: Wellner Ahluwalia
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| The Nursery is open from 9:00 am until
noon every Sunday. Babies
up through 3 years of age are welcome in the Nursery. Wellner Ahluwalia
is our paid nursery supervisor. She has several teen assistants
who work with her each Sunday.
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Growing Times: Preschool and Kindergarten
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Teachers: Mary Hrbek and Becky Howard
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Curriculum: Celebrating Me and My World
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the wondrous qualities of the children and expands outward to the things
and people around them. The lessons provide preschoolers and kindergartners
with experiences and opportunities to grow in their sense of trust and
caring and to develop their self-identity and sense of connectedness with
all life.
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Heads 'n Hearts: First and Second Grade
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Teachers: Teresa Cull and Tom Venhaus
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Curriculum: Experiences Within the Web
of Life
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| This is a yearlong curriculum based
on the seventh UU Principle of respect for the interdependent web of all
existence of which we are a part. This is more than an ecology course that
they might get at a public school. The difference is the emphasis on values
and an understanding that this seventh principle is a deeply religious
undertaking. Although first and second graders may not be able to grasp
the full concept implied in the “interdependent web”, it is
not too early to begin giving them the building blocks out of which such
understanding will emerge.
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Crossings: Third and Fourth Grade
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Teachers: Kelly Shea and David Bouquin
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Curriculum: Awesome Stuff and Ecology
for Kids
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| Awesome Stuff is full of activities,
pictures, puzzles and information tidbits that explore our connection to
the natural world. It Covers the big bang, snowflakes and frost, the significance
of bugs, and much more. Ecology for Kids has experiments that explore important
issues facing children and adults in today’s world.
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Discovery: Fifth and Sixth Grade
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Teachers: Erin Bouquin and Jan Van Cleave
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Curriculum: A Good Planet is Hard to
Find
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| Mary Zemach, a long time member of
our church, wrote this curriculum. We have offered it many times and it
has always been very popular. The purpose of this course is to enhance
the ecological awareness of 5th and 6th grade children, while illustrating
with relevant activities how they can make a difference in protecting the
environment. It is designed to illustrate and increase awareness of the
UU Seventh Principle. This course will show our young people that they
can make significant contributions to the care and preservation of our
earth. Stories, games, crafts, field trips, child-produced slide shows
and videotapes, and recycling projects are just some of the things offered.
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Passages: Middle School
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Teachers: TBA
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Curriculum: A Good Planet is Hard to
Find
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This age group will also be using Mary Zemach’s
curriculum. The curriculum has been adapted to meet the needs of this older
age group. Instead of creating a large world map as will be done in the
Discovery class, they will chronicle the progress of that map using photos.
They will then create a PowerPoint presentation.
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Explorers: High School
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Teachers: Coleman Smith, and TBA
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Curriculum: Movies That Teach
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| We will be using materials from a
web-based site called Teach With Movies. The site has discussion guides
for thousands of movies of interest to all ages of children and youth.
The movies that will be viewed and discussed this year will all have an
ecology emphasis.
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YRUU
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Advisors: Pam Risley, Larry Schultz, and
Shari Kelley
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| YRUU Room 16 | |
| Young Religious Unitarian Universalists
is a church group for high school age teens. The group meets every Sunday
from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM. The group attends district conferences,
engages in fund raising activities, and plans and carries out social action
projects.
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Uniteens
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Advisors: Cheri Host and TBA
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| Uniteens Room 15 | |
| Uniteens is a church group for sixth,
seventh, and eighth grade youth. The group meets every Sunday right after
the church service. The group participates in a district conference in
our cluster once a year. They participate in group activities once a month.
Some of these activities include hiking, swimming, ice-skating, zoo trips,
amusement park trips, etc. The group tries to do one social action activity
a year.
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Chalice Children
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Advisors: Mark and Kimberly Petersen
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| Chalice Children is a church group
for children in first through fifth grades. This group meets once a month
for a planned activity. These include sleepovers at the church, camping
trips, sledding, swimming, and trips to the zoo.
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Chalice Children’s Choir
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Directors: Steve Tenbrink and Mark and
Kimberly Petersen
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| The children’s choir meets every Wednesday at 4:45 PM for practice. Children in kindergarten through sixth grade may join the choir. The children sing at the Sunday church service about once a month and for special events when needed. | |
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(505) 662-2346 |
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Hello! My name is Joyce Zaugg
and I am the Director of Religious Exploration at the Unitarian Church
of Los Alamos. I started work at the church
January 1, 1986. Around 1989, I decided I wanted to make this my
life career. I enrolled in the College of Santa Fe and in May of
1994 I graduated with a bachelor of Religious Education degree. It has
been a very rewarding experience and I love my work. Los Alamos is located
about
35 miles north of Santa Fe in New Mexico. We are situated in the Jemez
Mountains. Our church is at a beautiful location with Ponderosa Pines surrounding
it. When you walk outside in the front yard forest you can smell
the vanilla scent produced by the Ponderosa Pines. 
Sunday
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