Where Faith Grows: Level 1

I love how this curriculum uses stories from the Bible to teach about the character of God! Too many curriculums for younger kids just teach the Bible stories instead of using the stories to teach about God, but this curriculum uses the stories as a teaching tool. We love the included hymns, and even my toddler is learning to sing the hymns as we work on a new one every two weeks. The hands-on activities are enjoyable and reinforce the lessons.
My only complaint about the curriculum is that I'm not a fan of jumping between translations of the Bible all the time, but it's been easy enough to just switch all memory work and reading to the translation we believe is best.

We love all the concepts of this book! It is a great discipleship tool for home! Every lesson is a read a loud conversation between siblings or siblings and a parent. I summarized a lot of the conversations because it was weird to me to be reading conversations. But otherwise, GREAT book.

It was hard for me to get past the fact that a large majority of the lesson is in the format of a conversation between two kids. Since my one kid was reading at a 1st grade level and the other wasn’t reading at the time, it was a burden to have to read the lesson out loud each time. Since it’s back and forth between a boy and girl, it’s odd for Mom to read both parts. I could see that there was some good content in the lessons, but I just didn’t like the format of the lessons. Also, this was setup to be 3 days a week. And the lessons were for two weeks. Our family works best if we basically have the same schedule every day. 3 day-a-week curriculums don’t fit well with our flow. Again, the content wasn’t bad, it just didn’t work for our family.

I did this with My 6 and 8 year old and they both loved it. Our smallest son, 3 at the time, would sit with us and watch and lesson as we did these lessons as well. They all loved the fact that I made the little brother and sister into a puppet and used different voices for each of their parts in the stories. Each week, I felt like the older boys could really relate to the stories and learn something based off of either their own experiences as brothers or from something they have done with their friends. I also liked the way that the memory verses were taught and how repetitive that part was.

This discipleship program is amazing! I have not seen anything else like it! The academy supplement especially brings the characters and concepts in the course to life, plus it includes a ton of faith-building MB read aloud videos that my kids listen to on repeat! It has been the perfect fit for our family ages ranging from 3.5 to 8.5.

Some things to note up front:
This course is best used alongside Language Lessons 1 and above.

At first I was trying to do this course simultaneously with Simply K but doing the recommended Hands-On activities in both of those books was way too overwhelming. We were also doing Foundations Phonics daily which is Bible heavy as well. Ultimately we dropped everything but phonics for a while and restarted Where Faith Grows when we were ready for language lessons 1 and it is working a lot better.

Have a plan for where you will keep all of the finished activitiy pages. I did not and most of ours got lost or mangled. I really wish I would have had them so that we could go back and review the lessons to further cement our learning.

If you are using the academy course supplement and have multiple students doing the course, I highly recommend just getting the PDF and printing out the activity pages. A lot of the pages are just dialogue which is read by the characters on the screen so they aren't really necessary to have in physical form. I tore out the activity pages and made photocopies which I think did save money for this particular course but I ended up losing some of the pages for a few months in the process. It would have been so much easier just to print it directly .

I'm doing where faith grows with my 8yr old. We enjoy it as it is open and go and focuses more on bible than more than Words. Highly recommend, it's fairly easy to understand and she can do all the activities. It's a yes in our book

I bought 2 of these books because I have 2 children. I wish I would have only bought 1 because they have lost interest in the coloring anyway. The lessons are short, sweet and powerful. I also think this is geared for young kids. Probably ages 6 and under.

My kid and I had fun doing this together, and after a couple years he still remembers some of the verses because of the tune we made for them.

my son loves that he can do this book on his own

My daughter loves Abby and Miah. She loves learning about Jesus. We're struggling with implementing what she learns but we will get there. I was somewhat raised in church but didn't learn any of what she's learning so it's been great for me too.