Sunday Morning Church School

Birth through Kindergarten
Children’s classrooms are in the Drane Center, a fully equipped developmental day school facility.  Children exercise their imagination as they learn the stories of our faith through crafts, age-appropriate Bible lessons, application activities and music.  

Classes meet during the church school hour from 9:30-10:30 a.m and include a class for Toddlers,  Genesis 2’s, Promise 3 and 4 year olds, and Kindergarteners. Genesis Two’s curriculum is “Toddlers and Twos” from Bible Quest of PCUSA published by Abingdon Press.  The Promise class uses the “We Believe” curriculum from PCUSA and the Kindergarten Class is using “Rock Solid” from Cokesbury.


1st-5th Graders  
Elementary Children use a Rotation Workshop Model™ for church school, in which a well-defined theme, Bible story, or narrative unit is used for several weeks and taught in several different ways.  After an opening program, the children break up into grade-level classes and go to their assigned classroom.  

The classrooms are transformed into workshops, each one focusing on a different approach to learning the same story. Children rotate through all the workshops during the weeks of the unit. Through the rotation they have an opportunity to experience the story in a variety of ways—drama, art, games, mission, audio-visual and computers, to name a few.  

The current curriculum is "We Believe: Rotation" published by the PCUSA.  

Classes meet during the church school hour from 9:30-10:30 a.m.   

6th Graders  
6th graders have a church school experience tailored to meet the needs of older elementary children transitioning from childhood to adolescence.  They use a traditional classroom setting to conduct a year-long overview of the Bible, punctuated with energizing and educational activities.  The basis of their study is "I know my Bible" curriculum from the PCUSA.  

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