{"id":548,"date":"2025-11-16T13:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/?p=548"},"modified":"2025-11-16T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:41:23","slug":"first-day-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"First Day School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quakers used to refer to the days of the week by number, instead of name, so \u201cSunday School\u201d became \u201cFirst Day School.\u201d And it does function differently than traditional \u201cSunday Schools.\u201d Since Quakers don\u2019t have a set of beliefs that children must be taught to accept, the emphasis is on teaching them the principles that guide Quaker practice and encouraging them to examine how they apply to their own lives. While there isn\u2019t  a rigid list of those principles, the acronym \u201cSPICES,\u201d for simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and service, is a useful beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our First Day School meets during meeting for worship at 11 am in the  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/?page_id=35\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"35\">Friends Hall<\/a> classroom. The kids and teachers join the adults in the Meetinghouse about 11:45 for the last part of meeting for worship and to join us in fellowship and snacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First Day School is held through the academic year, September to June. On Quarterly Meeting dates (the last Sundays of October, January and April), all the First Day School groups for Merion, Haverford, Old Haverford, Radnor, Valley and Newtown meetings will have a joint First Day School activity at the meeting hosing the Quarter. Those are definitely worth trying to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All kids are welcome. Contact us for more information: merionmeeting@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quakers used to refer to the days of the week by number, instead of name, so \u201cSunday School\u201d became \u201cFirst Day School.\u201d And it does function differently than traditional \u201cSunday&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,21,42,38,13,43,4,53,2,41,47,32,37,9,45,49,40,19,8,39],"tags":[102,105,101,103,104],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activity-building","category-children","category-community","category-education-and-outreach","category-environmental-concerns","category-equality","category-first-day-school","category-fun","category-quarterly-meeting","category-integrity","category-merion-friends-meeting","category-monthly-meeting","category-peace","category-quaker-history","category-quaker-spirituality","category-racial-equality","category-simplicity","category-social-concerns","category-young-friends","category-youth-programs","tag-education","tag-families","tag-first-day-schoo","tag-programs-for-kids","tag-quakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}