Elementary

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Central Presbyterian Church welcomes all children 4 years old through 6th grade to join us for Sunday school. Central uses the Workshop Rotation Model for children’s Sunday morning education. The Workshop Rotation Model uses the multiple intelligences to provide children with all possible avenues to help learn in the best environment for them.

Our elementary-age classrooms have been designed to be creative, media-inspired, child-pleasing classrooms that help teach stories of the Bible. Some of the workshops that take place in these rooms include: art, drama, Bible games, cooking and video.

Classes rotate to a new workshop each week for four to six weeks. The teachers do not rotate. They stay put in the workshop, repeating the lesson to a new group of children each week (with some age-appropriate modifications).

During the four to six week period, only one Bible story is taught. The entire rotation – every workshop, every week – is focused on learning that one Bible story.

At the end of each rotation, we have Celebration Sunday. Class time on this Sunday brings all the children together to review what they have learned. This is done through storytelling, drama, art projects and game shows. On many of the Celebration Sunday’s, the children will also share part of what they have learned in worship.

Children find this a fun and exciting way to learn about the Bible. Almost every week, they can’t wait to come back to see what the next workshop has in store.

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