Spirit of Adventure

The children explore themes of sports, medicine, food, science, building, exploration, and the web of life, as they are introduced to Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists such as John Foss (a world champion unicyclist), Albert Schweitzer, Fannie Farmer, Charles Dickens, Tim Berners-Lee (designer of the World Wide Web), Maria Mitchell, Alexander Graham Bell, Frank Lloyd Wright, Beatrix Potter, Henry David Thoreau and many others.

In the course of the year they dissect a computer, build cantilevered architecture using graham crackers, taste strange foods, and sing “Jingle Bells” (written by a Unitarian!). Along the way, they explore the meaning of good sportsmanship, teamwork, taking care of one another, kindness, generosity, reason, curiosity, creativity, daring, simple living and love for living things.