Our Sunday School program is called "Son Seekers". Our workshops are:
Son Seekers Oasis (Games & Storytelling)
Creation Station (Art)
REEL Son Theater (Movies)
3-in-1 Productions (Drama & Puppets)
"Let There Be Light" Cuisine (Cooking)
Sonlink.com (Computers)

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"Sonset Boulevard" is our midweek kids' program at Living Way Church, Stockbridge.

Planet HolyWord- movies
Entertainment Tonight- Drama & Puppets
Raiders of the Lost Arcade- Games
BEauty & the Feast- Cooking and Art

We call our new program (starting Fall 07) Destination Christ.

Our Vision is "Supporting kids' spirit-filled journey with Christ".

We started painting rooms several years ago to get away from "hospital white", so we honoured the existing themes when we named our rooms. Our Rooms are:

Art Ark - painted like the inside of the Ark - art, crafts, construction
Creation Cove - painted like "under the sea of Galilee - drama, puppets, music
Our Oasis - painted like Egypt with the Nile running through - spirituality, biblical knowledge, creative writing, movies
Discovery Den - computers and games
Harmony Hall - music, movement, dance

If we use the kitchen for a rotation, it will be called "Galilee Gourmets".

We have chosen to call our Rotational Sunday School DISCOVERY KINGDOM. Our kids will be discovering that God is present everywhere. Our Room themes will be based on exploration as described below.
Art - RAINBOW REEF - Ocean Exploration Biblical connection Jonah and Fishing
Music/Drama - JUNGLE BEAT PRODUCTIONS - Jungle Exploration
Biblical Connection Creation
Games/Activities - DIGGING DUNES - History & Archeology
Biblical Connection - timelines/ Significant finds ect.
Story Room - THE QUEST - Faith Exploration
Biblical Connection - Jesus' ministries carried through to current times
Computers - TREE TOP PC - Forest explorations
Biblical connection is Jesus the Story Teller
Movies - NIGHT SKIES CINEMA - Space Exploration
Biblical connection the Nativity

We are excited to get started, and I hope to post pictures of our rooms soon. There is a lot of work to do to get them ready

Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Greenville, SC.

Our Elementary program (1st through 6th grades) is the "Transformation Station", which has a train travel theme. The workshops are "depots":

Design Depot (art)
Faith Depot (Temple theme; storytelling and Bible drills)

About a year later we implemented "Preschool Express" for 3-5 year olds. The materials are in steamer trunks labled "Creation Station, Exploration Station, Imagination Station and Recreation Station". The Preschoolers come to the same classroom every week and the teacher rotates.
Tech Depot (computers)
Staging Depot (drama)
Holywood Depot (movies)
Game Depot

We chose the name GAP (God's Awesome Place!). We gather around the campfire for drama and song in Campfire Tales, we learn bible skills and play games in Fields of Fun, we view videos in Riverside Theater and we express our artistic and creative sides in Creation Creek. We are starting our 3rd year with the rotation and have 12 children attending GAP (we're a small church), in one room that we've creatively divided with curtains...and it works. Kids see and wear GAP shirts and know that those three letters stand for much more that a clothing company.

We have just started our Rotation, the first month so we are really in the planning and nailing down part. We have just started painting the rooms, can't wait to post pictures. We are using the theme "God's Big Backyard" Everything is nature based. The groups go by the names:
Toddlers-Chipmunks
Kindergarten-Raccoons
1st & 2nd Grade- Blue Jays
3rd & 4th Grade- Falcons

We have also done the rooms in a certain theme:

Star Theatre- Video
Buggy about Art- Arts & Crafts
Treehouse- Games
Tent- Memory

We are hoping to switch some of these out with other themes, I am excited to see such a varity here.
Sherri

We have just started rotation at our small church near Bristol, England. It is called Re:mix. The X in the logo is a cross at an angle.
I don't know of any other churches in our city which have started rotation so we're on our own! I love this website!

The classes are called
The Quest - DVD/computer
Creation Station - art/craft
Action station - drama
Ready, Steady, Cook - cooking

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We call our rotation program "Faith Tracks" and use a train theme. Our workshops are:
"God Central Station Depot" -- our opening gathering place
"Boxcar Bible Stories"
"Whistle Stop Cafe"
"Craft Caboose"
"Science Siding"
"Clickety Clack Cinema"
"Computer Crossing"

Our pastor is a train buff and was the inspiration for our theme. We have train tracks running down the hallway and train murals in each room. Our kids and teachers LOVE WoRM!

We are just starting Rotation Sunday School. Our church is Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church. We are calling Sunday School "Sundays at the LAKE" LAKE= the Lord Acting in Kids Education. We are very excited about the possibilities! Our shepherds are going to be called "Trail Guides!"

We are a small church so we only have 2 rooms to work with. Our church is called CityChurch so Sunday School is called CityKids and we don't want to change that. I'm just starting to plan our very first rotation. Here's what I've come up with do far:

We'll all meet together first for JAM Sessions (Jesus And Me) where we'll have praise & worship, announcements, etc. Then we'll split up to our Experience Stations:

Arts & Crafts: The GLUE Factory (God Loves Us Eternally)
A-V: Holywood Video
Storytelling: BLAST from the past (Bible Learning And Sharing Together)
Games: FAST Track (Fun, Active, Spiritual Training)
Puppet Theatre: The Masters Hands
Cooking: Soul Cafe

We'll rotate between 4 different workshops (2 per week, 4 total) and on the 5th week we're going to have "Fun In The Son-Day" A big celebration outside with games,jumpers and food, etc.

We have a separate nursery/toddler room so I'm still looking for something for them and a name for them. And I'm looking for names for the 2 groups of kids. (K-3 & 4-6 grade)

I'm very excited to get started! All of you have given me so many great ideas! Thanks

Here are some brainstorming results of possible names:

-Spirit Alive (title of a song from the Weston Priory, Vt.)
-Hands to Hearts
-Hand in Hand with Jesus, -or- Hand in Hand with God, or Hand in Hand with the Spirit
-Hands and Hearts to God (Shaker community phrase)
-Hand in Hand (theme song: Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water...) Our church has the children's handprints on the hallway walls so the hand theme might work well for us...
kind of like walking from station to station, holding hands with Jesus
-Risen Love Alive (phrase from an Easter song from the Weston Priory)

Our children's Sunday School program is called Carpenter's Corner. Our workshops are:

Creation Station (art)
HolyWord Theater (video)
Apostles' Playhouse (drama)
Bible Story Laboratory (science)
Storyteller's Tent (storytelling)
The Coliseum (bible skills/games)
Solid Rock Cafe (cooking)
Spirit Moves (occasional workshop - liturgical dance and music)

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Judi H.
Posted February 04, 2009

Our rotation Sunday School has a railroad theme. Our groups are called the Engineers (grades 5-7), the Boxcars (grades 1-4 and the Cabooses (ages 3 1/2 to 5). Our stations are Taste of Heaven Cafe' (creative cookery), Bible Bytes/Whirling Planets (computer and science share a room), Thou Art and Godly Games (share) and Story and Video Station (with puppet theatre as well). All aboard for God's children! Trinity Presbyterian Church, Starkville, Mississippi

We use the rotation model, but call our workshops "studios". We have 4 Experience Studios that use a variety of learning styles that covers kids from Kindergarten to 6th grade. Hence they are called K6 Experience Studios.

We teach one Biblical lesson 4 weeks in a row (when there is a fifth Sunday we do something special)
Storytelling
Discovery
Art
Music & Motion

This fall we are adding a new preschool focused studio called the Connection Studio for kids 3-5 years old. In this studio we will use the Young Children in Worship curriculum. Here we will repeat the Biblical lesson 2 weeks in a row.

Our children's ministry is known as "Kid Zone" and our rotation workshops are...
Adoration Zone-worship-singing,dancing
Imagination Zone-drama, skits, videos, movies
Creation Zone-arts and crafts, cooking

Front Door. . . building a heart where God is quite at home

based on Ephesians 2:19-22 as found in The Message it was our inspiring image

For the 2008-2009 church year we used the H.I.K.I.N.G theme since we are located in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. It was an acronyn forHelping Inspire Kids' Interest in God Our groups were Hikers, Campers, Adventurers The stations were The Campground- meeting and story place; Mountain Top Productions-Video; Artist's View-Art, and Around the Campfire-the Kitchen


For the 2009-2010 year we have chosen "The Vineyard" as the theme. Children were invited to be one of the "Bunch" .(of grapes)
The The Vine and Branches Room is a multi-center room which includes the
Music Center ...Heard it through the Grapvine"," The Drama Center..Scene Pickin' Artist's Seeds Theatre Center...Raisin'Awarenessand finally our kitchen is the Vineyard. There was an increase in membership among our Toddlers, so one of our rooms was taken for the expansion for that group. Thus we have more centers in one area this year.
But the rotation concept still works for us!!

Our Sunday school is called:

Discovery Kingdom! Where Jesus is King!

Holy Land Theater- cinema/ drama
Parable Place- story/ games
Creation Cove- art
God Workx.com- computer lab
Kingdom Courtyard- worship & surprise

We started our rotations in September 2009. This program is great!