Preschool "Chalice Children" class

This year, the CHALICE CHILDREN class will be using the curriculum Me and My World by Debora Chandler Pratt. "This full-year curriculum celebrates the wondrous qualities of children and the animals, objects, and people around them. Provides preschoolers with experiences and opportunities to grow in trust and caring and to develop their self-identity and sense of connectedness with all of life."

On the first Sunday of each month, preschool children begin in class at 11:00pm, with class ending at 12:15. On all other Sunday's of each month, preschooler will begin with their families in service then will be sung out of service and go to their preschool classroom.

Here is the Chalice Children's class schedule for the rest of the year:

	Lead	Support	Theme	Activity
June 6	Genevieve	Lori	Useful plants/herbs	Plant lettuce, chives, mint, impatiens
June 13	Hatta	Gary	Composting	Decompostion experiments
June 20	Lori	Genevieve	What plants need	Experiment-sun, water, light, etc., celery or carnation with colored water
June 27	Hatta	Gary	Plant growth cycle	Beans in a bag, weekly reader
July 4	Gary	Hatta	Fruits vs. Veg/seeds	Tasting party
July 11	Lori	Genevieve	Plants/seeds	labyrinth walk-collect plants and seeds in egg cartons
July 18	Lori		Propagation	Cutting and pinapple tops, bulbs
July 25	Hatta	Gary	Recycled art	"abstract flowers"
August 1	Lori		Sprouts / Mexico	Sprout seeds (to eat next week)
August 8	Hatta	Gary	Seeds and beans	Collage, Beans and rice
August 15	Genevieve	Lori	Mexico / Salsa	make salsa, mexican hat dance
August 22	Hatta	Gary	Bugs	Revisit compost
August 29	no class	Intergen- erational service