We split up saints during the second grade year in to winter and spring blocks, drawing them from the church calendar and grouping them around the archetypal themes of light in the winter and new life in the spring.
Of course being Orthodox we are immersed year round in the lives of the saints but this is a time of digging deep into the stories in a more focused and "academic" way.
So far this year we have covered-St. Martin, St. Matthew, St. Gregory the Wonder worker (Ds loved this one!) and St. Catherine.
As a side lesson we have been working on spelling word families drawn from our stories. Its been challenging as his speech issues really effect his ability to make and compare vowel sounds, it doesn't help that he just lost his two front teeth (for Christmas!) He is great at coming up with words for me to right down but has trouble identifying vowels if I say a word orally, he is making good progress though.
In the coming few weeks we will cover, St. Barbara, St. Nicholas, St. Lucia, and Saint Herman and perhaps one or two more, we will see how busy things get with Nativity preparations.
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