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For Parents
Guess. What.
You are doing great! You are navigating a world-changing event with your own two hands. You are raising a family, educating your own children, working, and managing your other responsibilities.
You Are Amazing.
Pat yourself on the back today, ok?!
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Screen-Free Fun
- Add a 15-minute silent reading block to your daily schedule. Non-readers can look at picture books.
- Draw shapes, letters, numbers, words or math problems on sticky notes and hide them around the house for your child to find. Then have the child match them up on a “key” that hangs on the wall.
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How to Navigate Faith Talks
When you share moments of conversation with your children regarding faith matters, it is difficult to know how to start and end these conversations. Here’s a short 5-step pattern to follow.
Share something personal.
Read a story or anecdote that relates.
Talk about it.
Pray about it.
Bless your child with a small compliment.
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Prayers
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Elementary Virtual Game Party
Join Mrs. G. on May 21st at 7:00pm for our next Elementary Virtual Game Party. Geared toward 3rd-5th grade, but younger siblings are welcome! Link to Zoom here![/vc_message][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”9616″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space][vc_message message_box_color=”white” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-user”]
Puppet Party!
Saturday, June 6th, 10:30am
How will it work?
1. Have your child (age 0 – Kindergarten) bring their favorite stuffed animal to show-and-tell
2. Enjoy a puppet show by Pastor Ben and Mrs. G.
3. A short stretching/yoga cycle based on the stuffed animals we see in our party
This party should last between 20 and 30 minutes, depending on how engaged the littles are.
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Build a Custom Track
At-home Fun Materials:
-Cardboard box, broken down and cut down one side to be laid flat on the ground
-markers
-towels to protect the floor if needed!
-craft supplies to create landscaping
-tracks and bridges from other toysets
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Church Beautification – Adopt-a-Spot (A Message from Wyn Lydecker)
Here’s a chance to get out as a family in the fresh air and to do some service for God’s creation and your church home. You’ll make our church look more beautiful and welcoming to visitors and passersby. And you’ll get exercise in a cooperative venture.
Since we cannot hold our annual all-church spring beautification, we’re asking families to volunteer “Adopt-a-Spot” and accomplish one job by themselves. You choose the time that will work for you! By working in family units on your own time, we’re adhering to the spirit of keeping a safe distance from others.
To adopt-a-spot, contact Christine Geeding at: cgeeding@uccdarien.org or 208-891-0848
Here’s a list of landscaping tasks that need attention at our church. You choose! Map of church is attached to help clarify the spot.
Landscaping Jobs
- Pull little weeds and pick up the loose bricks in the Memorial Garden.
- Weed and mulch the bed outside Meetinghouse by entrance to Parish Hall (where the hoses are kept).
- Weed and mulch the bed with tulips, hosta, and astilbe next to the ramp into Parish Hall (Do not cut the tulips or their leaves).
- Weed and mulch the bed in front of the ramp.
- Weed and mulch the bed outside the Library.
- Cut back the ilex hedge next to the ramp to the Meetinghouse so that it isn’t growing over the sidewalk. (Please do not touch the bed next to it, as it’s filled with perennials.)
- Weed, edge, and mulch bed with sign by path from upper parking lot to church. (Do not cut daffodil or tulip leaves.)
- Weed, edge, and mulch the bed outside Dale’s office. It has a lot of perennials in it, so this is good for someone who knows their plants.
- Take away the dead Christmas greens in the urn outside the office wing entrance and plant seasonal flowers. Clean up the courtyard and clean up debris around the drain.
- Weed and mulch the bed next to the main church steps on the north side of Meetinghouse. Throw away the discarded pots of plants in the bushes.
- Weed, edge, and mulch the long bed with tree, tulips, perennials, and yew that is in front of the church. (Do not cut tulip or daffodil leaves)
- Weed, edge, and mulch the bed with the white church sign in back of bench.
- Weed, edge, and mulch the round bed with yews and a church sign in near Brookside Road.
- Look for other jobs, like trimming hedges or weeding hillsides or planting lilies or perennials.
You can buy brown cedar mulch at Home Depot. If you can find it on sale, even better. Feel free to donate the mulch or ask for reimbursement from the church. Please note on your receipt: Church Beautification. Contact Audrey Esmond or Wyn Lydecker (203-536-4157; wynlydecker@gmail.com) for help identifying weeds or with questions. FYI: poison ivy is reddish green with groups of 3 small leaves.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Our church is beautiful…be part of keeping it that way!” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center|color:%231e73be” google_fonts=”font_family:Artifika%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css_animation=”fadeInLeftBig”][vc_empty_space][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/qACBYxqqSCs”][vc_empty_space][vc_zigzag][vc_empty_space][vc_message message_box_color=”peacoc” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book”]
FCC LINKS
- Online Church School Lessons
- Previous Isolation Newsletters
- Quiet-Time Meditations with Pastor Ben
- Forum on Family Dialogue with Dr. Mary Olson
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