Thank you! Revisions, and More Story Behind the Orthodox Christian Morning Time Curriculum

I just wanted to write a post to thank anyone that has purchased the Orthodox Christian Morning Time Curriculum! I hope that the curriculum is a blessing to you and your family! We are enjoying using it at my home. I am sorry for the few typos that you may notice, but I am correcting them as they are discovered. Notably, in one part of the curriculum it states that the Feast Day of the Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebastea is March 6, when it is actually March 9. That should be corrected on future versions, and I'm sorry it was not found sooner!

When this curriculum was completed at the beginning of the 2024 school year, we started using it right away and really enjoyed it. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, including my older son's hand surgery and needing to utilize some outside education resources for a time for one of my children, we could not complete it at a normal pace. We have now made it to Week 16 and are expecting to finish it before the next school year!

My children are enjoying it just as I had hoped! When I made the Orthodox Christian Morning Time Curriculum initially, I was trying to be more balanced in what resources I used in our morning time. We had gotten the Lives of the Saints by St. Dimitry of Rostov in 2020, and we were in such a habit of reading it daily. Which is great! However, I realized my kids were not getting exposure to poetry, scripture memory, or even basic catechism as often as they should, and any time I tried to incorporate it, it got derailed. By sticking to this Orthodox Christian Morning Time Curriculum, we are getting to read the in-depth stories of the Saints, but still have two or three days for other Orthodox spiritual reading, before the memory work and copy work. We completed reading Zealous for God recently and have just started reading a nearly out-of-print Orthodox history book called Heroes for Truth by Sophie Koulomzin.

Right now, I would say morning time is taking at least an hour. On journaling days, it takes a bit longer. Today, my oldest son was enjoying flipping back through his previous journal entries. I think even after we finish the curriculum, I will print out just the journal entries so they can fill them in each year, and then we will have a great memory of how they have changed throughout the years!