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DR. SEUSS AND UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS: OVERVIEW OF SESSIONS
TITLE
AGE YRS
DATE
TIME
AFFIRMATIONS
THEMES
ACTIVITIES
500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
06-08.
1938
12 min.
We are fair and kind to each other.
Responsibility for own actions
Pictures. Competitive/noncompetitive games. Pennies
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
03-08.
1937
5 min.
Everyone is important. Church is a place where we learn together.
Imagination
Walk, Hunt
Bartholomew & the Oobleck
05-08.
1949
10 min.
We are always learning. We help take care of our world.
Environment Giving thanks
Pictures, going outside
Big Brag, The (Yertle the Turtle)
1958
Everyone is important.
Self-image
Boasting, True and False Make worms
Butter Battle Book, The
10+
1984
We treat people with justice and equity. We help make the world better for everyone.
Conflict
Make flags
Cat in the Hat Cat in the Hat Comes Back
06-07.
1957 1958
7 min. each
We have a say about things that are important to us. We help take care of our world.
Storytelling Cleaning
Daisy-Head Mayzie
06-09.
1995
Everyone is special
Unexpected happenings
Affirmation daisies
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
03-09.
1973
8 min.
Feeling sorry for yourself
Making "Thankful" container Superstitions
Dr. Seuss's A B C
1963
Initials Alphabet in the church
Initials Hunt around the church ABC book
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
08-12.
1962
Everyone is important
Sleep as part of a day
Relaxation Social justice project Cards
Gertrude McFuzz (Yertle the Turtle)
Everyone is important We are always learning
Adventure
Make Gertrude Dress up
Glunk that Got Thunk, The (I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today)
1969
4 min.
We have a say in what is important to us
What we think
"What if " game Thunk/Un-thunk cards Worry stones
Great Day for Up
03-06.
1974
2 min.
What makes a day 'good'?
Exercise Kites Up/Down cards
Green Eggs and Ham
1960
We are always learning.
Try new things, diversity.
Food collage Potluck meal "I Will Try" cards
Happy Birthday to You
06-11.
1959
Celebration
Congregational birthday party Birthday cards
Horton Hatches the Egg
1940
10min.
Everyone is important. We take care of our world.
Stick to what you think is right. Environment
Plastic eggs
Horton Hears a Who
1954
Everyone is important. We are kind and fair to each other.
Every voice needs to be heard. Cooperation
Make a Who Create a web Social action project
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
1957
Everyone is important We are fair and kind to each other We help make the world better for everyone
Meaning of Christmas
Social action project Caroling Christmas cards
Hunches in Bunches
06-10.
1982
We have a say about things that are important to us.
Making decisions Choices
Walk, maze
I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today
1987
3 min.
Acting on something you want to do
Stretching
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today
1 min.
We are always learning
Know your own limits
Social justice project
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut
1978
We are always learning Everyone is important
Breadth of the world around us
Various ways we 'read'
I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew
1965
Everyone is important. We have a say about things that are important to us.
Facing troubles Choices
Various problems Boasting
If I Ran the Zoo
1950
We take care of our world.
Animal needs, variety
Video of zoo, trip
King Looie Katz (I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today)
3 minutes
Everyone is important. We have a say about things important to us.
Think and do things for yourself
Acting the story
King's Stilts, The
1939
Work and Play
Work and play cards
Lorax, The
07-08.
1971
Conservation
Exercise Plant seeds Endangered species
McElligot's Pool
1947
Environment Imagination
Pollution experiment Collage
Oh, The Places You'll Go
1990
Walk or game
Oh, The Thinks You Can Think
1975
Walk Mystery bag
On Beyond Zebra
1955
Letters
Sneetches, The
05-09.
1961
Everyone is important. We are fair and kind to each other.
No one is better than anyone else.
Pictures Enact the story
Too Many Daves (The Sneetches)
Names
Name cards
What Was I Scared Of? (The Sneetches)
Overcoming fear
Masks Pants
Yertle the Turtle
Everyone is important We have a say in things that are important to us
Power and having a say
Yarn web Make turtles Feast
Zax, The
Everyone is important. We are fair and kind to each other
Stubbornness, power
Enact the situation
© Rev. Helen Zidowecki, May 2003
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