ATTENTION ALL PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS & GUARDIANS OF TOTS!
Are you in search of a cost-effective (a.k.a. FREE) alternative to peeling your kids off the living room ceiling this winter? If you answered “YES!”, then Good Sam’s Tumble Time is just what you need.
 
Once again the Early Childhood Council is offering open play time for children ages 0-5 years old with some structured games in the Samaritan Center. Join us from 9:30-11:30am in the Good Sam gym as we hop, skip, and jump our way to oodles of fun. 

Tumble Time Dates: March 13th and 27th
 
If you have questions, please contact kathy_willett@q.com or smoran@paddocklabs.com. Hope to see you there!

Help support the Sunday School Children with their relief project for Haiti.  They will be collecting items needed to make Health kits that will be distributed by UMCOR in Haiti.  You can help support them by purchasing some needed items or making a monetary donation.

Items needed are:
- Hand towels (15”x25” up to 17”x27”,  No kitchen towels)
- Washcloths
- Combs (large and sturdy, not pocket size)
- Nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)
- Bath size bar of soap (3 oz. and up)
- Toothbrushes (single brushes only in original wrapper.  No child size brushes.
- Adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages

Donated items can be placed in a marked box on the Children’s display tables found in Samaritan Hall.
Money collected will help purchase toothpaste and shipping costs.
Monetary donations can be sent to the church office marked as Sunday School projectAll donations need to be at the church by March 7. Thank you!!

Sunday mornings, from 10:15-11:45, our gym is staffed to engage children ages 3 years – 6^th grade in structured play.  Parents MUST check in/out their child to this time of play.  The benefit – children have a great time and parents have peace of mind knowing where their kids are and what they are doing. 

Are you ready for a Rock Solid Sunday School Year at Good Samaritan UMC this year?
There are Christian Education classes for all ages.  Identical classes are held at both 9:00 and 10:30 am and include:

Nursery:
Infant-18 month – Waddlers
18 month-2+ years – Toddlers and Twos

PreKindergarten:
3 year olds (age 3 by Dec. 1)
4 year olds (age 4 by Dec. 1)

Age 5 yrs.-Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th-6th Grade

At Good Samaritan UMC, we use United Methodist curriculum for children of all ages. In the Nursery we’ll use a brand new curriculum entitled Rock-a-bye which includes materials for both a babies and waddlers and a toddlers and twos program. This Fall, all PreKindergarten through Elementary aged children enter their second year of using a curriculum entitled Rock Solid: Building a Heart of Faith.  Check out this COLORFUL CARD giving more details!   You can also Enroll Your child(ren) NOW for Sunday School. We look forward to seeing everyone in September!

Here's a way you can improve your vocabulary while providing rice to feed hungry people of the world. As you play the word game, Free Rice will donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program, for every word you answer correctly. If you don't think this adds up you'll be surprised to know that on October 7, 2007, this hot internet game had 830 grains of rice. By November 14. 2007 participants had generated 1.897.053.670 grain of rice - that's almost 2 billion grains in less than 6 weeks. The warning that with the game reads: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, and job performance. You can play the word game or learn more about its purpose by visiting www.freerice.com.