Simply Loved Curriculum Reviews

4.4 Rating 35 Reviews

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“We are a quarter in and our church is enjoying this curriculum. It is easy for our teachers to prepare and teach, has fun activities, engaging Bible stories and age appropriate connections. I like the colorful posters, the kids love the stickers and we have been able to adapt it easily to our current program. I recommend it and our church will continue to use it!”

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“PROS: - prepackaged physical materials. I only have a desktop inkjet, so this saves time and $ - Bible story posters and memory verse posters and stickers. Beautiful and good quality material. - Easy to read teacher friendly lessons. We previously used “Orange” and it was just too much. I literally had teachers refuse to follow lessons because it was too much to read. All are unanimous in liking this simple step by step picture layout better. - Few supplies needed. I already spent my budget on the curriculum, it’s nice that most materials needed are simple things and I can get most from the dollar store. - Downloadable content to email teachers ahead of time and make extra copies. CONS - the videos are a big swing and a miss. Kids don’t want to watch PowerPoints/picture slides. Literally the biggest turn off. This curriculum would be great if it had decent videos. But the kids can’t sit still to watch them because they’re so boring. They don’t even really tell the Bible story each week other than a 1 sentence summary. If you’re gonna do a slide show presentation, at least make it a flannel graph retelling of the story. Pictures of random things and an overly cheery narrator do no work. - sequence makes no sense. Why do we have a 4 week unit on Moses, then jump to Joseph, then jump to Jesus— then BACK to Old Testament? And why talk about Jesus’ birth in April!? This would be much more better if there was either a sense of chronology to it or if it at least followed the liturgical year. This is just random throwing spaghetti on the wall and hoping something sticks. The lessons are good, mind you- age appropriate and teacher friendly, but how can we expect kids to know the Bible if they don’t understand what happens where? - Digital Download Center doesn’t function properly. The download all button does NOT give you zip files. There are always errors when trying to download unless you go in and download each file individually. One at a time. This is extremely tedious and time consuming. I’m convinced they know but don’t fix it so you will for out money for their jump drive. - Digital access not given in emails but rather in a sticker inside the kit. What!? I ordered digital access so I could use it instantaneously. But No- we have to wait 2 weeks for the physical kit to come. It really defeats the purpose of digital access and planning ahead. Especially since the upper elementary add on you get the code in the email. Why is it so hard to give the base curriculum code in an email?! - Upper Elementary add on is a front/back page per lesson. I don’t think that enough value/worth it for the money.”

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Thank you for your thoughtful review! We're glad to hear that you're enjoying the prepackaged materials and the overall lesson layout. Your feedback on the videos is invaluable; we understand that engaging content is key to keeping kids’ attention, and we’ll certainly look into improving that aspect. We appreciate your detailed feedback and will forward this to our editors for their consideration as they create future materials.

“Our preschoolers and their leaders have enjoyed using this curriculum. It is easy to navigate and it is a plus to have materials that are both hands-on and digital. I am also grateful for the interactive support we have received! Susan Schuster has been incredibly professional, knowledgeable, and kind in supporting every step of our journey in purchasing and using your quality materials.”

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Thank you for your fantastic review of the Simply Loved Curriculum! We are happy to know that our Simply Loved Curriculum is bringing joy to your children and their leaders. It’s also wonderful to know that Susan has been a supportive resource for you. We’re here to help every step of the way.

“I began as a discipleship pastor last year and the church was needing a quality children's curriculum with easy to use resources. I am grateful for the Simply Loved curriculum.”

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Thank you for taking the time to leave such a positive review about our Simply Loved Curriculum! We are happy to hear that Simply Loved has been a valuable resource for your ministry. It’s wonderful to know that our curriculum is supporting your efforts in nurturing your kid's faith.

“I love the content of the curriculum. Everything is biblically based, kid-friendly, and gets the attention of the children. I would love to have all Group curriculums available in the same digital portal for ease of assimilating into one lesson plan.”

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Thank you so much for your wonderful review! Your suggestion for consolidating all Group curriculums into a single digital portal is insightful, and we'll definitely take it into consideration as we continue to improve our offerings. If you have any further ideas or feedback, please feel free to reach out.

“We have finished one and are in the second quarter almost finished with unit one Joseph story and the kids love acting out. He tweets Bible discovery lesson. One suggestion I would have is to come up with more crafts memory, buddy makers the kids could put on their backpacks or just keep as escorts instead of the stickers and or object lesson that would go with the daily Bible point main theme and also”

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Thank you so much for your fantastic review! We are glad to hear that your kids are enjoying acting out the Bible stories. Thank you for your suggestions, I have passed them on to our editorial team for their consideration as they prepare future curriculums.

“A few years ago I switched to the Simply Loved curriculum for my 1st and 2nd grade Sunday school class. I like the idea of the buddies and the kids love learning motions with the Bible verses. I wish there was a music CD instead of DVD though. I don’t want to have to switch out the buddy DVD and the music one every week. I also think that some of the lessons need to be shorter. With this grade group being so young, their attention span is not that long. Other than that I like the format. I adjust some things because I have a smaller class size.”

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Thank you for your insightful review. We truly appreciate your feedback about the music format and the lesson lengths. Your thoughts will certainly help us consider future improvements! If you'd like more resources to accommodate your smaller class size, please feel free to reach out. Our Customer Service is avaliable from 8-2, Mountain Standard Time and would love to help! 1-800-447-1070.

“The lessons are too complex and long for this age group. Their attention span is short. Would like a craft that they can take home each week. Bible verses are good and they love the videos. We don’t sing songs very often as they join the “big” church for their song service. But this is just what works for us. We have Sunday school during the worship time.”

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Thank you for your feedback on the Simply Loved Curriculum! We appreciate your thoughts about the lesson complexity and the attention spans of younger children. We would love to chat with you about your concerns and to see if we can problem solve with you. We hope that you will call our Customer Service Team at 1-800-447-1070. We are happy to help.