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🦉 Character & Big Questions

Virtues, fables, fair or unfair, and big questions to think through.

Year 1 course

Character, Faith & Big Ideas

Year 1 course: 32 lessons. Begins with “The examined life: what is a virtue?”; ends with “The examined life: a year of character”.

Year 1 course32 lessons

🦉 Why do we learn character?

Good character means doing what is right even when no one is watching. Big questions teach us to give reasons, listen to others, and change our minds when we learn something new.

Character

Big Questions

Name the virtue, what would you do?, Aesop's fables and their morals, fair or not fair, feelings words, and a big question to think through each week.

FoundationsLevel 2Level 3

Virtue Heroes

Honesty, kindness, courage, self-control and gratitude through Bible and history heroes.

FoundationsLevel 2Level 3

Feelings & Friends

Name feelings from faces and stories, size up problems, practice calm-down breathing, make kind choices, be a feelings detective and solve disagreements in five steps.

FoundationsLevel 2Level 3

Learning to Learn

How your brain learns: growth thinking, watch practice work on your own chart, memory tricks, the stuck ladder, small goals with a focus timer, and teach it back.

Level 2Level 3Level 4

Faith

Bible Stories

The Bible's big story retold simply, story questions, memory verses and maps.

FoundationsLevel 2Level 3

Life skills

Life Skills

Money jars, routines, healthy habits, safety smarts, calm-down tools and helping at home.

FoundationsLevel 2Level 3

Money & Business

Needs and wants, paying and giving change, saving for a goal, running a lemonade stand for profit, jobs and earning, and shopping smart.

Level 2Level 3Level 4

Levels: Foundations (ages 3–5), Level 2 (grades 1–2), Level 3 (grades 3–4), Level 4–5 (grades 4–6). Every game starts with 👀 See it, a short picture lesson.