Hello Everyone!
I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend. Ours was very long one! We had a baptism that we attended on Saturday. That was a very beautiful and special service to be a part of. Sunday, we had Liturgy, then in the evening we went to the “Labor Day Lift Off” balloon glow at Memorial Park here in Colorado Springs. Monday we just stayed home and did some house projects because Theia was a little under the weather.
Today we remember the Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia, the married saints. They were only married one year before St Adrian’s martyrdom. They lived in Nicomedia under the rule of Maximian. Some of Maximian’s soldiers had captured 23 Christians and brought them to the Praetorium for torture and their martyrdom. Adrian, who was the head of the Praetorium, added himself to the list of Christians after witnessing the steadfastness of the martyrs. His wife, Natalia rejoiced when she heard about this because she was a secret Christian. She encouraged her husband during his martyrdom and she later died of her former suffering.
Your holy martyrs Adrian and Natalia, O Lord, through their sufferings have received incorruptible crowns from You, our God. For having Your strength, they laid low their adversaries, and shattered the powerless boldness of demons. Through their intercessions, save our souls! Troparian, Tone 4
For our “Circle Time” this week, we are using:
- The Tuesday Song (from the Garden of the Theotokos)
- The Fruit of the Spirit
- I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas
- ROY G. BIV – color song
For our “Main Lesson” we started a unit on the study of the fruits of the spirit. Today we talked about the first fruit of the spirit, love. We did a cute project of a caterpillar with a tomato out of a paper bag. We talked about the verse John 15:12.
For “Our World” we talked about the sense of touch and what “soft” objects feel like. We did the work page out of our Get Ready For Kindergarten workbook.
For our “Number” study we studied the number “2”. We did a work page out of our Get Ready For Kindergarten workbook.
For our “Structured Play Time” we had fun learning how to do Hopscotch!
Lastly, we worked on chanting. We studied the Tone 4 Troparion using Tone Tutor 101.
That was the end of our day! I will let you all know what we are up to tomorrow!
In Christ,
D. Kyriake
Saint Xenia's Academy 