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Religious Education


“Giant Children’s Meeting!” (First Day School)

9:00 AM on 4th Sundays

Join Friends and Families from across the Yearly Meeting for a monthly religious education program. It’s “giant” because everyone is invited! It’s “children’s meeting” because we’re making a space to nurture the spiritual lives and Quaker identity of young people. We hope this online community will support families and the Friends offering children’s programs in their meeting; the 9:00 start is intended to allow folks to attend worship in their own meeting later that morning.


Fall 2020 Program Planning:

  • Fall Religious Education Planning: Connection and New Directions
  • Accompanying “Connections and New Directions” slideshow
  • Planning Calendar for First Day Programs 2020-2021

Racial Justice Curricula and Resources:

Talking About Racial Injustice with Children  includes a collection of current resources for families (published on PYM website June 2020)

Black Lives Matter Instructional Library compiled by Pheobe Defino. An excellent collection of children’s racial justice books all in read-aloud format. Sections/shelves focusing on: Activism and Advocacy, Self-love and Empowerment, Black History, Libros en Espanol, Additional Resources and Contact.

Protest Song Activity created by the KidsBridge Center. Explore songs created to encourage, inspire, and get people moving for change!

Racial Justice Curriculum for Young Friends by Lisa Graustein, NEYM. A 10-lesson curriculum helping middle and high-school age Friends to grapple with racial justice issues beginning with their own understandings of their racial identity.

Children and Youth Resources Exploring Racism and Racial Justice  list of websites, blogs, online articles, curricula and children’s literature that begins with framing queries:

  • How do we approach the work of teaching/learning about undoing racism for both Friends of European and African descent? Other People of Color?
  • What scaffolding or tools can we create/recommend for working with a book resource? (queries, wondering questions, etc.)
  • How do we prepare the way in our meetings and RE programs for ALL children to feel welcomed, included and fully participatory in the Religious Society of Friends? How do we signal welcome and inclusion to visitors?

Lessons for At Home & Online Together

  • Being Present — worship at home
  • “Treeing” Together — care for trees and our community
  • Flat Fox and Fell — adventures in 1652 country and at home with George Fox and Margaret Fell (Visit the Flat Fox and Fell page on the Faith & Play Stories website for links to their story and a lesson plan for home and sharing together.)
  • “Something Happened in Our Town” — lesson based on a children’s story about racial injustice, told from two perspectives, that of a Black family and a white family. Created by Friends at Madison Meeting in Northern Yearly Meeting

PYM Curricula

  • NEW!  “My Mandala – What is your Spiritual Journey?Using mandalas to help children learn about their past and current connection to the Divine and to their faith community”
  • Blessed are the Peacemakers
  • Brothers and Sisters All
  • Celebrating the Seasons
  • Christmas Programs with a Twist
  • Dr. Seuss for First-day Schools
  • Exploring My Friends’ Beliefs: A Study of Judeo-Christian Faith in One’s Neighborhood
  • Food for Body and Spirit
  • From the Center Out
  • George Fox: Four Lessons
  • God Is…
  • Growing in the Light, Pre-K-1
  • Growing in the Light, 2nd-5th
  • Growing in the Light, 6th-8th
  • Growing in the Light, Adults and High School
  • The John Woolman Curriculum
  • Just Do It! (Ideas for HS Gatherings)
  • Lucretia Mott: Each Little Act of Kindness
  • Losses and Healing
  • Obadiah: Four Lessons
  • Peaceable Kingdom
  • Quaker Kidz Bring the Peace
  • Quakers Answer the Call
  • Shaking Out the Truth
  • Speak to the Earth and It Shall Teach Thee
  • Stand Your Ground
  • Stewardship of Time, Money and Talent
  • Teaching Children About Jesus, I
  • Teaching Children About Jesus, II
  • Teaching the Old Testament to Quaker Children
  • Teaching Quaker Faith and Practice to Children
  • Teaching the Queries to Quaker Children
  • Truth in Action
  • Walking Cheerfully
  • Wild Things: A Recipe for Running an MS Gathering
  • William Penn: The Feather and the Sword
  • William Penn: Young Rebel
  • Work is Love Made Visible
  • Working with Middle Schoolers

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Religious Education

  • Guidance and Practices for Online Youth Gatherings
  • Religious Education
  • Religious Education News
  • Quaker Religious Education Organizations
  • Together at Home and Online: Religious Education during COVID-19
  • The Tote Bag Newsletter
  • Upcoming PYM Youth Programs
  • Writings on Religious Education: Practical and Prophetic

Contact

Melinda Wenner Bradley
Youth Religious Life Coordinator
mwennerbradley@pym.org
215-241-7171

RSS Religious Education News

  • How Meetings Coped with a (Mostly) Virtual Christmas
  • Pastoral Care for Our Children in These Times
  • Tuition Aid for Friends Children in PYM Friends Schools
  • The Mystery of Christmas: A Nativity Story
  • Christmas Together in New Ways
  • For Our Children: A Quaker Parent’s Perspective
  • Parenting + Presidential Election + Pandemic
  • Catch Up on the Quaker College Fair
  • Middle School Friends Made Pie!
  • In Person Worship: Outdoors and in Meetinghouses

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