1. Retell the story of creation. (Use children’s versions of the Bible when teaching.)
2. Collect examples of the things God made (water, flowers, earth) or construct items that illustrate that God created the world “…and all that is in it.”
3. List three ways to care for/protect the wonderful world that God gave us.

1. God gave us the creation.
2. God gave us our family to take care of us.
3. God gave us our Church, our Church family, and Holy Communion.
4. We show God’s love by caring for others: family, Church family, neighbors, etc.

1. Retell the Nativity/Christmas story.
2. Retell the Presentation to the Temple.
3. Retell the Theophany/Baptism story.
4. Retell the Pascha story
5. Jesus loves us.

a. Blesses children.
b. Feeding the 5000
c. Gives us Holy Communion
d. Heals people

1. Define prayer as talking to God.
2. Jesus gave the Disciples and us the Lord’s prayer.
3. List when we pray (before meals, in the morning and at bedtime; use Orthodox prayers).
4. Give reasons for praying (what and why; family, friends, health, gifts and talents).
5. Make thank you cards to GOD To understand that we should share God’s gifts with others. (Tie in with a simple explanation of Matthew 25)
7. Share God’s gifts by doing things for the needy and ill. (Ex. Bring food, mittens, etc. for the Needy; coins for the Orthodox Christian Mission canister.)
8. Thanksgiving is a national holiday created by President Lincoln as a National Day of Thanks to God.

1. Making the sign of the cross correctly.
2. Show how to receive Communion correctly.
3. Show how to receive Antidoron correctly.
4. Explain why, how and when we light candles.
5. Venerate an icon correctly.
6. Sing simple hymns

a. “Holy God”
b. “By the prayers of the Theotokos”/”Tes Previes”
c. “Blessed of the Name of the Lord”

7. Recite the prayer “Holy God…”
8. Begin learning the Lord’s Prayer.
9. Identify the icons of Jesus, the Theotokos and the parish’s patron.
10. The priest blesses our home with Holy Water.
11. The priest is the leader of our Parish. The Bishop oversees many parishes.
12. Identify the Parish’s name – Patron Saint or Feast Day.
13. Recite “Christ is Risen!” and respond “Truly or Indeed He is Risen!”

1. Retell specific Bible stories. (When possible, do the lesson as it occurs on the Liturgical Calendar.)

a. Creation
b. Adam and Eve
c. Jesus’ 40 day blessing
d. Noah’s Ark
e. Good Samaritan
f. Feeding the 5000
g. Nativity
h. Theophany/Jesus’ baptism
i. Palm Sunday
j. Pascha/Easter
k. Jesus blesses the children
l. Jesus heals the blind man
m. Jesus heals the leper
n. Jesus heals the paralyzed man

2. Where possible, color/match the Bible story with a line icon of the event. (Ex. Christ blessing the children, the Presentation of Our Lord)