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Sample Classroom Rotation: Moses Chronicle
Childcare These are our childcare offerings during Sunday Worship: Parents who use childcare are welcome to pick up their child during the Peace so that the family can participate in the Holy Eucharist together. Children of any age are welcome at the altar rail to receive Communion or a blessing. weeSIT is an organization that has been providing the best childcare service to St. Paul’s for nearly 20 years. Each of weeSIT’s caregivers is a trained professional with a gifted ability to care for our youngsters. You will recognize the weeSIT staff by their nametags and brightly colored shirts. Please be sure to sign your child in and out with the weeSIT staff each morning. Parents' Morning Out (PMO): PMO is a program for 2 year olds at St. Paul’s. For 2 to 3 mornings a week during the school year children can have structured socialization and play time. This is an expanding program, and we welcome new applicants. If you are interested, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Preschool Sunday School The 2-year-olds stay with Parky and the staff of weeSit for fun activities and age-appropriate play. Preschool Sunday school takes place on the first floor of Wilmer Hall in the same classrooms used by the St. Paul’s Day School. The Wee Worship and Sunday school schedule are shown below: For any questions related to preschool education please feel free to contact Ellen King, Director of Education for Children and Youth, at 703-549-3312 or
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. Teachers and Volunteers in the Preschool St. Paul’s Day School St. Paul’s Nursery and Day School’s mission is to provide a balance between the development of language skills, social skills, and perceptual/motor skills with art, music, movement, dramatic play, science, cooking, field trips and experimentation. If you have a three-year-old, four-year-old, or Kindergarten-aged child and would like to inquire about the St. Paul’s Nursery and Day School, please contact Martha Schafer at 703-549-1974.
Let's look at what a month for a WoRM might look like (see chart). Each classroom has become a specific workshop for a specific learning style. Rather than each grade having its own room, the grades rotate from room to room. The schedule may look confusing, but when you come to the second floor, it will be very easy to find the right classroom as every workshop is marked with the workshop name and the grade level for that day. Once the children enter the workshop, our Workshop Leaders will begin to guide the children in their lesson. Workshop Leaders sign up for a single rotation. This makes planning around teaching easy. A Workshop Leader can teach for four or five weeks and then not teach again all year! Another person devoted to your child’s Christian Education is the Shepherd. The Shepherd will move with the class from workshop to workshop, helping the Workshop Leaders and the children each week. This person is a jack-of-all-trades. He or she will be the constant presence in the children’s Sunday School and will be able to understand each workshop’s lesson and theme. Shepherds are individuals committed to a year-long Sunday school experience. One of the main assets of WoRM is that it’s fun. Children love to come into Wilmer Hall and find out which workshop they are going to be in. As a parent, you will find WoRM to be easy and stress-free…no more fighting with your kids to come to Sunday School. As we get into the swing of this process, look out for all manner of rotation workshop ideas. We can do knitting, computers, Godly Play, story telling…you name it! This method of teaching is also wonderfully educational. Our experience with WoRM in the past has shown that our children will remember Bible stories far longer. At the end of the year, our kindergartners are usually able to remember vivid details of the stories we cover from August! Another bonus of WoRM is that it is seasonally-based rather than lectionary-based. When we are in Advent, we can do Advent. When we are in Christmas, we can do Christmas. This approach allows us to concentrate more on the practice and foundations of what we are doing in church each week. The Liturgics workshop, where we explore why we do what we do in church, will solidify these ideas. The children will have an opportunity to manipulate the Eucharistic elements, learn about the creeds and prayers, and practice parts of the service. As we progress throughout the year, the students will be able to put together practice with belief.
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Choirs Angel Choir (pre-K through grade 2) meets weekly on Wednesdays during the choir year from 5:00 to 5:45 p.m. Spiritual formation, learning to belong, and musical fun are all included. The Angel Choir sings the first Sunday of each month at the 9:00 a.m. service and at the 4:00 p.m. service on Christmas Eve.
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Welcome to St. Paul's! We are so very glad you have chosen to worship with us. Children are welcome at all of the worship services at St. Paul's. On Sunday (from the first Sunday after Labor Day until Memorial Day) our services are held at 7:45 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 5:00 p.m. During the summer, we hold Sunday services at 7:45 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. On Saturday we hold the Faith @ Five service of Holy Eucharist that meets at 5:00 p.m. in Norton Hall. We include children, youth, and adults in all of our services but especially in the 9:00 a.m. service. You will find the 9:00 a.m. service to be very child-friendly, with music and messages geared to our littlest worshipers, while the 11:00 a.m. service has a children's sermon that is offered separately during the Gospel reading, sermon, and prayers.
St. Paul’s believes that children deepen and enrich our parish family, and we desire to see families with children of all ages worship together. However, we also understand that there are times when an age-appropriate play environment may be more suitable for our preschoolers.
St. Cecilia Choir (Grade 3 through changed voices) sings on the first and third Sundays each month at the 9:00 a.m. service and on Christmas Eve at the 4:00 p.m. service. The choir rehearses weekly on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 6:45 p.m.