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Service: Sundays at 9:30am and 11:15am in-person or online
Phone: 206-525-8400
This winter, UUC will offer an Our Whole Lives (OWL) class for Kindergarten and 1st graders on Sunday afternoons from 1:15–2:30 p.m. Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades K–1 is an eight-workshop curriculum that helps five- to seven-year-old children begin the lifelong process of acquiring information and forming attitudes and values about identity and relationships, safety and health. The class will begin on February 2, with a special parent/child orientation, and will wrap up on April 6. The lead facilitators for this class are Katie Renschler and Claire Applemans, both experienced OWL facilitators, who bring a sense of warmth and curiosity to the room.
As is our common practice for OWL classes at UUC, there will be a concurrent group for parents and caregivers (with childcare provided). A foundational philosophy of OWL is that parents and caregivers are their children’s primary sexuality educators. But it is common for adults to feel overwhelmed or uneasy at the prospect of talking about sexuality with the children in their lives. This group will use the small-group ministry curriculum “Parents and Caregivers as Sexuality Educators” to help parents/caregivers develop the skills to do so, and to find support and courage with one another.
For more details about the K-1 OWL class schedule please
view this document. Find details about the
curriculum and goals below. Please
contact Director of Family Ministry, Aria Curtis with any further questions you might have.
Registration link for the K-1 OWL class (via UUC Connect). Registration is capped at 20 and closes by January 27.
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Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades K–1 is an eight-workshop curriculum that helps five- to seven-year-old children begin the lifelong process of acquiring information and forming attitudes and values about identity and relationships, safety and health. Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades K–1 is one of seven programs in the Our Whole Lives Lifespan Sexuality Education series published jointly by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) and the United Church of Christ (UCC). Other curricula in the series are available for grades 4–6, grades 7–9, grades 10–12, young adults, adults, and older adults. The title, Our Whole Lives, expresses the understanding that sexuality education is a lifelong process.
Our Whole Lives is an affirming, comprehensive, accurate, and developmentally appropriate sexuality education program that promotes sexual health. It is informed by the guidelines of the National Sex Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K–12, second edition, developed by the Future of Sex Education (FoSE) Initiative, a partnership between Advocates for Youth, Answer, and SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change. This curriculum is
based on the following values and beliefs:
The goals of this curriculum are:
Questions? Please
contact Director of Family Ministry, Aria Curtis.
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