Preschool and Kindergarten Aged Children

Preschool and Kindergarten aged children experience and understand God’s love through the well acclaimed Godly Play curriculum using sacred and liturgical stories, parables, manipulatives, and a sense of wonder. Godly Play is concerned with the spiritual development of each child as an individual and with modeling the appropriate behaviors of patience, kindness, consideration and respect, expected if people are living within a Christian community.

In Godly Play, each class session follows the pattern of church’s Sunday service, so children may have a deeper understanding and enjoy fuller participation in the parish worship. Each class follows the pattern of getting ready (Opening Acclamation), listening and responding to the Bible story (The Word of God), the feast (The Holy Communion), and saying goodbye (Blessing and Dismissal).

Godly play was developed and classroom tested for more than twenty years by Episcopal priest, author, and teacher Jerome Berryman.