At Home In the Universe

Classes at 11:00 explored our first source today--direct experience of transcending wonder and mystery. Children in the Storytime class heard a story about the universe, and it did seem to inspire a sense of wonder! We wondered about how big the universe is, whether there are other universes, and where each of us lives within our universe.

Children in the Spirit Play class also explored our first source today. We made crayon art pictures where the top layer of black crayon is scraped away, revealing colors underneath. The results are unexpected, and get at the idea of mysterious. We can think of the world as being kind of like our pictures – there’s a big picture there that we can’t really see, but we can manage to see through to parts of it. Sometimes science helps us to scrape away the not understanding so that we can see what’s really there, and music and art and imagination can also help us to understand the things that we can’t completely see. (I didn't get any photos of this project, unfortunately.)

 And finally, here's some of our littlest ones, at "home" in the nursery, and in the Universe!