First Day School continues our theme of “How do we find peace?”   We continue learning about compost and checking composting experiments going on in jars in the FDS room.  We plan to build a compost heap next to the trees beyond the garden.  Our older children are now doing Dungeons & Dragons two times a month hosted by Adam Hurley; since they have more D&D sessions, they will be coming up to Meeting for Worship when then younger children go up.  While the older children play D&D, the younger children have lightly-supervised Free Play under the care of non-parent adults, allowing parents and regular teachers to spend more time in worship upstairs.  We plan to have a regular FDS program geared toward the “Littles” on one of the two D&D weeks.

For Thanksgiving, we read a story about Wampanoag Thanksgiving and made a traditional Wampanoag porridge.  Earlier, we made “peace bracelets” with letter beads spelling out words we associate with “peace”.  Several of our children attended the JYM Retreat in November

For our Christmas Program, we plan to share the story of “The Christmas Fox”, as well as lead all the adults in singing “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.

The “How do we find peace?” theme includes trying to make worship more meaningful for the children.  We want to invite adults from our meeting to briefly share with the children what makes worship meaningful to them.  We have been learning the song “Teach Me to Stop and Listen” and we are teaching it to the adults.

We continue to seek non-parent adults willing to spend one Sunday a month with the children.  We have a wide age range, and our topics are not always so interesting for the youngest, so they need some supervision during play.  All adults are welcome to attend our brief weekly planning sessions on Wed. evening at 7:30 on Zoom.  Get in touch with Anne Anderson if you would like the Zoom link and to confirm the time and day.  Please also get in touch if you would like to be added to the weekly FDS email with a description of what is coming up.