As I sit down to write this article this month it's daunting to recap all of November's activities! The month began with the sounds of drumming calling the students and parents to out the Yurt Dedication and RE open house. It was rewarding for the students, teachers and I to see how many of you, both parents of students and non-parents, came to celebrate our sacred spaces under the oaks. We appreciate the interest expressed in RE and the work the kids have done. We look forward to many years of learning and exploring in our unique classrooms!
November 11th to the 13th I was fortunate to find myself at Camp de Benneville Pines for the first time. What a blessing for our UU congregations to have such a wonderful retreat to get away to! I enjoyed the opportunity to get to know many members of Chalice better and spend some time reading Native American stories among the trees with some of the RE kids. I hope many of the kids in RE will take advantage of this resource and make the trip to Camp de Benneville February 18th to the 20th for the Winter Elementary Camp.
For our annual Thanksgiving Feast the RE program paralleled our congregational service with a discussion of blessings and giving thanks. The kids enjoyed creating cards with their own blessings and thanksgivings to share at the feast and had fun "Punching Down" and baking homemade squaw bread dough. I hope you all got a taste of their labors!
Also in November the Chalice RE web page had a face-lift and has been updated for the first time in a long while! Special thanks to Paul Dulany for his enthusiasm for RE and for taking on this task! Please visit our RE web page at http://www.chaliceuu.org/RE.htm