Is your Quaker meeting interested in engaging its youngest attenders? Whether your meeting has thought about starting a First Day School program or wants to jump-start its curriculum with new ideas and activities, the First Day School Tool Kit can help.
The First Day School Tool Kit has lesson plans and activities to help your meeting guide children and young people as they begin their spiritual journey and become grounded attendees of meeting for worship.
Click on the links below to access each learning tool.
Laying the Foundation
Four Reasons for Your Meeting to Become More Welcoming for Children
Starting, Re-starting, or Revitalizing A First Day School: Get Ready, Get Set, Teach!
Tools to Build Your Lessons
Sparkling Still and Sparkling Still updated web links
Telling Stories by the Heart for First Day School
Considerations When Choosing and Using Books in First Day School
Tools for Bridging Age Groups, Generations, and New Friends
Quaker First Day School for Busy People
Sharing Faith Across the Generations: A First Day School Project that Enriches the Entire Meeting
Working with Middle and High School Friends: What Are the Developmental Differences?
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