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What is QUUilt?

In these times of isolation, stress and uncertainty, meaningful connection can recenter and re-engergize us. QUUilt, UUCF’s new take on RE, aims to emphasize Connection over Content by engaging children, families and adults in religious community through fun and fellowship.

What is QUUilt?

QUUilt is a fresh approach to Religious Exploration for these extraordinary times.

QUUilt goes beyond a traditional framework of Religious Education for children by embracing lifelong learning at UUCF and supporting parents, children, youth, adult learners, teachers and volunteers in a connected community.

Sunday morning classes and high school and middle school group activities will continue (virtually), of course. But these “patches” of content are now joined with other new opportunities for connection.

New QUUilt Opportunities for Connection

  • Family story time
  • Parent conversation groups
  • A middle school book club
  • Online game nights for 4th-6th graders
  • Staff-supported RE at Home.

Possible other new patches include Adult Program classes and small groups geared for parents and young adults and collaboration on activities with other UU congregations like Cedar Lane and River Road, and engaging in justice work at UUCF.

Information on opportunities for connection are shown below and will be shared in the weekly QUUilt Community UUpdate, along with links to register children for online RE classes and to sign up for activities. If you’ve been receiving weekly RE UUpdates, you are all set. If not, sign up here. For questions about QUUilt, contact Director of Religious Exploration Diana Tycer. For middle or high school programs, please contact Courtney Firth.

Come wrap yourself in the warmth of community. Get involved in QUUilt!

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How to connect with QUUilt

 

How to connect with QUUilt

  • Host a family story time session
  • Join a parent conversation group
  • Register your child for an RE class
  • Be a parent helper in an RE class
  • Do RE at Home with your children
  • Join Family CartUUns night on Fridays
  • Volunteer as a chaperone for an online MS or HS event
  • Take an Adult Programs class
  • Encourage your youth to attend MS and HS events
  • Engage in justice work at UUCF as a family unit

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QUUilt this month

 

QUUilt this month

October Message from the Director of Religious Exploration

We did it! Our Religious Exploration community is able to provide nine in-person classes this fall, thanks to the 30 volunteers who signed up to teach and the RE committee members who helped recruit and serve as teaching team liaisons. More than 100 students have returned to classes, and their joy at being together again is heartwarming.
But while hearts may be warmed, some children in the outdoor classes may get chilled this weekend as cooler and rainier weather is expected. Please send them to RE with jackets and puddle boots. Autumn mornings can be nippy, so make sure your children are dressed to spend 75 minutes outside in all kinds of weather.
Remember, if your child or youth has been exposed to someone with a confirmed case of COVID-19, or if they are showing any symptoms of COVID-19, they should not come to campus.
Help is still needed to make RE run smoothly. We need two more volunteer teachers at 10:30 a.m., one to assist with High School and one for upper elementary grades. We also need parents or other adults to help each week in our outdoor classrooms. Parents who are not teaching are expected to assist as class helpers three times each year. Please choose one of these fall slots to lend a hand.
The online Coming of Age class will begin this month, as will the Wednesday night Our Whole Lives Class for Grades 7-9. We still could use more students for both of these classes, so if you have a Middle School student who has not reconnected to RE, please consider these options – both are wonderful courses.
For those who cannot return to in-person RE at this time and those who would like help with family faith development, I am pleased to offer the Soulful Home program. The October Soulful Home packet, which will be emailed this weekend, provides ideas, resources and activities for bringing the monthly worship theme into daily home life. The October theme is Cultivating Relationship. This month’s packet includes suggestions for conversations about friendships at mealtimes, a bedtime story and puppet activities around our relationship with water and a treasure hunt activity designed to help children recognize their relationships within the interdependent web. Whether you pick just one thing (like watching the 12-minute video about positive self-talk) or do it all – it’s up to you. I hope you view these packets not as something more you should do, but rather as just another tool in your toolbox for enriching family life.
And last, but definitely not least, I am very pleased to announce the birth of Sloane Elizabeth Yates on Sep. 29. Congratulations to parents Autumn and David Yates and big sister Annaleigh. Welcome to the world, Sloane. We are glad you are here with us!
I’ll end with these words from this month’s Soulful Home blessing:
Blessed are the threads that connect us to one another, the universal  
conscience, the circumstances, the kinship networks that bring us into  
one another’s lives bearing gifts of joy, laughter and teaching.

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Date/Time Event Location
Tue. Oct 19 at 6:30 PM Youth-Adult Committee
Fri. Oct 22 at 4:30 PM 4th-6th Grade Online Gaming Group
Sat. Oct 23 at 9:15 AM Intergenerational Hiking Group Hemlock Overlook Regional Park

This Month in Fall RE

Sunday RE classes continue this month for children in Kindergarten through 12th Grade.
The Kindergarten/Grade 1 class will learn about trees, animal partnerships, and begin to understand how the different plants and animals in the environment need each other.
Grades 2 & 3 will explore the awe and wonder of our universe, and how all of it – whether snowflake, dinosaur or human – come from the same substances as the stars.
Students in Grades 4 & 5 (and some 6th graders) will explore how curiosity, integrity and flexibility are important qualities for Unitarian Universalists.
Other Grade 6 students will continue the Our Whole Lives sexuality program for upper elementary students this month.
Some 7th & 8th graders will learn more about Unitarian Universalism and take ownership of their own spiritual journeys in Coming of Age.
Others (along with 9th graders) will continue the full-year Our Whole Lives (OWL) comprehensive sexuality education class.
Youth Group for High School also meets on Sundays at 10:30 a.m.
All classes begin and end in their designated class spaces.

October RE Schedule

Sundays, Oct. 3, 10, 24 & 31 – Fall RE Classes. 8:50 a.m.: Kindergarten-Grade 9 begin and end in class, 10:30 a.m.: Grade 4-High School begin and end in class.
Sundays, Oct. 10 & 24, 7 p.m.: Online Coming of Age. This class is still enrolling students. Contact Diana Tycer for the Zoom link.
Wednesdays, Oct. 20 & 27, 7 p.m.: In-person OWL for 7th-9th graders. This class is still enrolling students.
Please note that 6th Grade OWL will not meet on Oct. 10 by parent request.
There are no RE Classes on Sun., Oct. 17, to allow time and space for Fall Festival set-up.

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QUUilt classes

 

 

October QUUILT Calendar Reminders for Ongoing Groups

  • Parent Conversation Group 2 meets Wednesdays, Oct. 6 & 20, at 7 p.m.
  • 4th-6th Grade Gamers meet online Fridays, Oct. 8 & 22, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
  • RE Committee meets online on Tue., Oct. 12, at 7 p.m.
  • Youth-Adult Committee meets online on Tue., Oct. 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
  • Intergenerational Hiking at Hemlock Overlook Park, Sat., Oct. 23, 9:15 a.m.
  • HS Youth Group goes to Cox Farms, Sat., Oct. 23, 7-11 p.m. (meet at UUCF).
  • MS Youth Group –  Online Gaming Night, Fri., Nov. 5, 7-9 p.m.

For information about these ongoing groups, please contact Diana Tycer.

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QUUilt volunteer opportunities

 

QUUilt volunteer opportunities

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