At First Day School, our Junior Young Friends/Young Friends Class (the Lone Star Girl) is exploring the mainstream Holy Book-centered Protestant denominations. Today we finished reading about Presbyterians and read about Methodists and Baptists. It is cool how this dovetails with a lot of what the LSG has learned in U.S. History class this year. I'm sort of sifting through how I want to handle the Anabaptist movements which don't fit terribly well in this section, although the Mennonites were mentioned and with how many evangelical denominations I should cover now versus waiting until we are talking about fundamentalists. This curriculum pretty much treats the fundamentalists as cults, which I mostly agree with, but I've got a marginally softer spot for non-fundamentalist evangelicals and the curriculum doesn't make that distinction.
In the Little Friends/Primary Class (the Lone Star Baby), we're mostly still working through the parables in the approximate style of Godly Play. Today, we did the parable of the leaven. These materials really speak to the Lone Star Baby and do a lovely job of helping her connect with the Inner Light. I love the way they are so heavy into "wondering". She chose the crosses of many cultures for her work after the lesson and matched the crosses with the cards. Then she decided to trace and label them all on a big piece of paper. I love the way she listens to her own inner leadings on how to adapt the work to suit her meditation.
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