Bees start off life as eggs. The queen is the only female bee that will reproduce and she will lay all the eggs for a colony. Eggs are deposited in cells of the honeycomb. Soon they develop into larvae, which are cared for by the female worker bees. Worker bees feed the larvae a special substance...
Leader Resource
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November 7, 2014
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Children,
Grades K-1
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Creating Home
ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 10 Activity 1: Home and Back Again 5 Activity 2: Story — The Magic Vase 5 Activity 3: Walking the Labyrinth (concurrent with Activity 4 and/or Activity 6) 25 Activity 4: Our Name Stones 10 Activity 5: Singing "The More We Get Together" 5 Activity 6: Decorating the...
November 7, 2014
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Grades K-1
| From
Creating Home
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
November 7, 2014
| For
Grades K-1
| From
Creating Home
We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations....
November 7, 2014
| For
Grades K-1
| From
Creating Home
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.— Cato IN TODAY'S SESSION... We concluded our Faithful Journeys program. Our Move It! game challenged the children to voice ways they will "step up" to act on Unitarian Universalist Principles we studied in earlier sessions. We...
Taking It Home
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November 7, 2014
| For
Families
| From
Faithful Journeys
We need not think alike to love alike. — Francis David (David Ferenz, 16th-century Transylvanian Unitarian minister) IN TODAY'S SESSION... A contemporary story about a Transylvanian community welcoming visitors from a U.S. partner church demonstrated action based on our sixth Principle, the goal...
Taking It Home
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November 7, 2014
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Families
| From
Faithful Journeys
We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by traveling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burden. – Jane Addams, in Democracy and Social Ethics IN TODAY'S...
Taking It Home
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November 7, 2014
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Families
| From
Faithful Journeys
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich ... in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. — William Ellery...
Taking It Home
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November 7, 2014
| For
Grades 2-3,
Families
| From
Faithful Journeys
Once the guest has eaten and drunk at your table, the guest becomes kin…beggar or enemy, friend or chief, if they knock on your door, it will open; if they seek your shelter, it will be given, and if they ask for hospitality, give them your bread and wine…for who knows when you may need the help...
Taking It Home
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November 7, 2014
| For
Grades K-1,
Families
| From
Creating Home
Activity time: 15 minutes Preparation for Activity Familiarize yourself with the games and songs listed in Posters for Chalice Children, under Resources in the Introduction. Display any posters you have made. Description of Activity Gather in a circle on the floor. Play the games and sing the songs.
Activity
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November 7, 2014
| For
Children,
Preschool
| From
Chalice Children
Activity time: 10 minutes Preparation for Activity Familiarize yourself with the games and songs listed in Posters for Chalice Children, under Resources in the Introduction. Display any posters you have made. Description of Activity Gather in a circle on the floor. Play the games and sing the songs.
Activity
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November 7, 2014
| For
Children,
Preschool
| From
Chalice Children
One Hundred Wisdom Stories from Around the World, Margaret Silf, p.29. “How Much Does a Snowflake Weigh?” Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press. Copyright (C) 2003. Used by Permission for this one time use. No reprints or use permitted. All Rights Reserved. It was deep winter and the snow was falling...
Story
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November 7, 2014
| For
Children,
Grade 6,
Middle School
| From
Amazing Grace