Lessons and texts for the youngest participants.
The Ruhi Institute develops graded lessons for children's classes from Grade 1 onwards, and a series of texts for junior youth groups ages eleven to fourteen. Both are studied each week in classes and groups across Ontario.
Children's Class Lessons
Each grade of the children's curriculum is built around a sequence of lessons, each centred on a virtue or theme. A lesson typically includes a prayer to memorize, a brief story, a quotation from the Writings to learn, a song, and an activity.
Teachers prepare for each class with a small team of colleagues, studying the lesson together and reflecting on how to present it well.
Junior Youth Texts
The junior youth programme draws on a growing library of texts — including Breezes of Confirmation, Walking the Straight Path, Glimmerings of Hope, Habits of an Orderly Mind, and others. Each text invites a junior youth group into discussion of a single theme, and into a small project of action that emerges from the study.
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We are happy to share sample lessons from the children's classes and sample chapters from junior youth texts with parents, teachers, prospective animators, or partner organizations.
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