At the Unitarian Society of Germantown, we encourage Wonder, Compassion, Mindfulness, Service… and Fun!

This Sunday, May 11, we’ll be in our regular CSD classes. The Rainbow Connection class will be planting seeds, the Lego ValUUes class will be making creative art, and the CommUUnity Games class will be thinking all about candles! OWL class will be happening. The Wiggle Room in its new location will be open and staffed, while the Nursery (in the Narthex) is available for parents of infants and crawlers.

     Our Wiggle Room space is now in the Committee Room, which is at the end of the Dining Room. Parents can drop their little ones off with Susan before service starts or keep your kids with you through the Time for All Ages before taking them to the Wiggle Room. 
     The Nursery at the rear of the Sanctuary (the room formerly known as the Wiggle Room) will be available for the very littles and their parents.

And the Rainbow Connection preschool class is now next door in the Cooperative Nursery School. Our volunteers are well equipped to walk them over, but please come through the playground to pick up your kids after service! 

We’re looking for adults to join our CSD program over the summer! Our hope is that a variety of adults from the congregation will be involved, either as assistants or leading activities. These  activities could based on your own skills, interests, hobbies or there’s a list of ideas included in the sign up sheet. If you haven’t been part of CSD before, this is a relaxed and low-stakes opportunity to try it out, meet the kids of USG, spend time outside, and HAVE FUN! Get more information and sign up for one or more Sundays here.

      Adults, please sign up below as a lead teacher, helper, or substitute for any Sunday. Questions? reach out to Zoë at dsd@usguu.org.

Below you’ll find an overview of the current classes. You can also still register your kids for CSD using this link.

Classes     

Pre-K/Kindergarten will be doing The Rainbow Connection which uses story books to discuss the values inherent in Unitarian Universalism and crafts to spark their creativity. They’ll be in the Children’s Library, the nook behind the elevator. 

   
1st through 4th Grade will be doing Lego ValUUes which introduces our shared UU values through storybooks, discussion, and play activities. There’s always at least one Lego build! They’ll be in Sullivan 1.  

5th through 7th Grade will be doing Community Games which incorporates all kinds of games to guide discussion of our UU values and individual faith identities. They’ll be in Sullivan 2      

And our 7th-9th grade OWL Class will be meeting in Sullivan 3 from 10:30am to 12pm. Registration is closed. For those registered, here is the schedule. Questions, email owl@usguu.org 

And Susan, our childcare person, will be in the Wiggle Room, which is always open for tots and tot-minders.

Friday Childcare 
As Rev. Hannah preached on September 29th, our children matter! And we’ll be hosting childcare with the help of our elders on some Friday evenings for two hours. This is an event that is still being constructed so please fill out this short form if this is something that you are interested in. This gives us a sense of how many members we need to recruit to our childcare squad to properly care for all of your children while you enjoy time to yourself. 

October’s CSD Newsletter

If you have any CSD questions, please contact Zoë Johnston, USG’s Director of CSD, at dsd@usguu.org. 

Join us here at USG for fellowship and fun!
Registration is always open for CSD* programs!

The Mission of our Children’s Spiritual Development (CSD) program is to:

• Provide developmentally appropriate education that supports the lifelong process of learning to cultivate goodness, compassion, empathy, and love for oneself and others.
• Offer safe and caring spaces for introspective work, connecting to nature, and building right-relationships in community across generations.
• Put into practice hands-on, experiential education for children, facilitators and parents that cultivates respect, stewardship, service, mindfulness, responsibility, justice, and the search for truth and beauty.
• To welcome young people into the UU community, help them find their way into becoming active members, and provide them opportunities to learn the rich history and guiding principles of UU.

We believe if the mission of CSD is fulfilled it will contribute greatly to fulfilling our overarching mission at USG of: Building beloved community with service, compassion and empowerment.

Please see the weekly enewsletter for the most up to date info.

Please Register your Children for CSD

By registering your child this year so that we have allergy and contact info. 

Our program is a co-op. We hope you will consider how you can volunteer during the program year, such as assisting in Sunday’s Children Spiritual Development workshops, helping organize seasonal events, or even lending a hand with administrative office tasks.  

As per new USG safety guidelines, all children should be fully vaccinated if eligible, and have a clean mask for our indoors, well-ventilated time together.  All CSD volunteers are also fully vaccinated.

We are able to offer CSD because of our wonderful volunteers. Thank you for considering volunteering and click HERE for information and links to the required background checks for volunteers.