Elementary School

2018 ~ 2019 Curriculum

Kindergarten-2nd Grade

Spirit Play™

Our K-2 classes will resume with our Montessori-based Spirit Play™. We will begin the year with stories about our UU rich history and continue the year exploring other religions.

We see the purpose of religious education as helping children in living into their own answers to the existential questions: Where did we come from? What are we doing here? How do we choose to live our lives? What happens when we die?

We use the Montessori approach and Berryman’s morning as worship approach for the structure of the morning. As in Montessori, the key elements are the prepared classroom environment and the teachers. These elements free the children to work at their own pace on their own issues after an initial lesson or story within a safe and sacred structure shepherded by two adults.

3rd ~ 5th Grades

Sing to the Power

Sing to the Power, by Lynn Ungar, affirms our Unitarian Universalist heritage of confronting “powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love.” Participants experience their own power, and understand how it can help them to be leaders.

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DRE UUCC

2701 Heyward Street

Columbia SC 29205

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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

"A church where skepticism is welcome and adherence to dogma is suspect? A church where all religions are invited but none are beyond introspection? A church that regularly presents nationally touring singer-songwriters? A church where half the congregation might have been at Hunter-Gatherer the night before? Now that’s a church we can support."

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Carita Barr, Member: Growing up in a Lutheran state-taxed church, I never was very religious. But 40 years ago, I heard about Unitarian Universalism through friends. I found a home here where this diverse religious community really works to better our world. Respect and honor for the "other" is the main ingredient in our cooperative efforts as a movement.

Stephanie Palmer-Smith, Director Religious Exploration: I came to find friends. I stay because they became my family.

Sej Harman, Deceased Member: I chose the UUCC as my spiritual home nearly 40 years ago because this community acknowledged my talents and abilities, encouraged me to flourish as a unique individual, and expected me to help bring about a better world—without having to bow down to anyone else's idea of what I should believe or how I should be.

Carita/Stephanie/Sej

I come to UUCC because I find here space, time, and gentle help to work on becoming a better person; and a laboratory in which to practice being that better person.

Joe Long, Member

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia, SC

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia

Sunday Services: 11:00am