Wonder Ink Reviews 91

I like how all the ministry grades/ages align with the series and the series content. I also like the amount of resources provided.

What has been frustrating is learning how to navigate the website. It is more confusing than helpful to me. I would like to see this simplified. I think having a Series library and a lesson library is unnecessary and adds to the confusion. Instead I would love to see everything that you need in the Series library under each series... and in there you can access and download any of the series files you need for the overall series and also each individual week of that series content. it seems like WI is trying to do too much when it comes to the overall functionality of obtaining and tweaking and changing the curr to fit your ministry. I think less is more in this case, but this is just me. I understand you have to do what you feel God is calling you to do.

I would also suggest simplifying your wording in the lesson. I understand the heart behind calling your segments "Curiosity", "Belief", "Faith", and "Identity" but this seems to be just extra fluff wording that causes us (your customer) to have to take the extra time to explain what these all mean to our team and volunteers, instead of just calling them, "Small group" & "Large Group", and "Activities or Fun elements" (which people are more familiar with). Again I get the heart behind it, I just feel it is unnecessary and those words could be better suited to your philosophy and mission of WI.

The feedback we have received from our PreK teachers is that the teaching videos struggle to hold our kid's attention and hit them on their level.

I do like the biblically-based content throughout... this is a huge plus for us! Thank you for this!

Hope this helps, I am trying to be honest, but I realize it can come off harsher then what it really is.

I like the curriculum. The webpage is not so simple to navigate when using an iPhone. What I think should be considered resources aren’t there. Maybe I just need to keep poking around on the website and watch a tutorial

It is more fun and detailed curriculum. It is easy to teach to children and i love love the activities for kids.

Really love the flexibility of the program. We plan on ordering for fall!

It has revolutionized our children's ministry because it actively engages both children and parents in serving and worship. It stimulates participation and involvement as opposed to children sitting, listening and simply being bored spectators...

I purchased the Easter curriculum and although I loved the content, I was not a fan of the interface to edit the lesson. The interface wasn't as intuitive as some of the other sites I've tested out. I think if I used it longer, I would get used to it, but with technology these days, I don't think it needs to be that complicated. I had higher hopes for Wonder Ink.

I love how the curriculum is tailored to fit any type of children’s programming in any church. It speaks strong biblical truths in a way easy for children to understand. It encourages children to take ownership of their own faith and allows them to ask questions to strengthen their faith. It is also eye appealing and easy to implement with both pdf and power point options.

I had questions as to whether the trial lessons we had signed up for were still available. The two representatives I spoke with efficiently answered my questions and were very personable!

Great activities and ways of making the lessons engaging. The website has a lot and can sometimes be difficult to work through if you're only looking to use certain portions of the material but still really great!
It would be nice to be able to export the video from the website so having an internet connection wouldn't be necessary.
I love the experiential components.

I love the curriculum! It’s fun, informative and interactive!

Love the done for you lesson. Easily adaptable for the age level and group size.

When editing (using chrome) sometimes in the middle of editing the website glitches and goes back to the home page.
Sometimes the activity pages in a lesson show the picture along with the link. Other times there is no picture. It helps to see the picture of the activity
page within the lesson.
In an Early Childhood lesson there is an activity that ask a 3-5 yr old to read or write. This does not seem suitable for a 3-5 yr old lesson and then requires extra unnecessary editing to make the activity usable.

Everything about it! We plan to purchase it this week.

I love your curriculum, I love how I can navigate and use the parts I need and take out what I do not.

I love how this curriculum aligns the lessons from early childhood to elementary students. This has been very helpful for our church, to focus in one lesson point and one Bible verse across age groups.
The wonder at home feature it's a great handout for parents.

I love how the lessons point toward Jesus and toward deepening the Bible story, and not so much toward character traits. (Character development it's a result of having a relationship with Jesus, and not the other way around. So I feel like this curriculum does a good at pointing toward Jesus).

One thing I don't love it's that the word Wonder it's all over the place. It's a bit distracting to be honest and I think it's OK to say "Bible verse or Memory verse" rather than "Word of wonder", for example.

I love the play stations approach in the Early Childhood lessons, and the Welcome question and Bible reading in the Elementary lessons. The curriculum also promotes good/deep conversations with the kids, and that's great.

It's a very good curriculum, it goes deep and also has a portion for volunteers to read and grow themselves (that's great!)

I think there's room for improvement in the video lessons, to make them relevant for different age groups (in some series the videos seem to be more focused on a younger audience -i/e "Hanging out with Jesus" while in other series the videos are focused in older kids i/e "Waiting for Jesus".
I think creators are on a good track, you're doing a good job presenting the Bible stories in creative ways. But it would be helpful to keep in mind the different age groups of the audience when creating the videos, to help churches use them with less individual accommodations :)

We are blessed to have this curriculum at hand. We do recommend it.

We recently made the switch to WonderInk for our 3-6 year old and 7-12 year old classes. The teachers are loving the plans and how easy they are to adapt and teach. We are noticing that the children are digging deeper into the word and engaging in high quality conversations about God and how to be His followers. The lessons have a good balance of games, fun, videos, small group conversation and bible reading.

I loved the ability to create a slideshow using the high quality slides provided but being able to pick and choose which slides.

Navigation is easy. Options for downloading presentations in both PDF and Power Point is wonderful.

Lesson laid out a lot of activities and was well structured. It had a script if a person felt they needed it. This lesson seemed well grounded in the actual word with no slight variant in interpretation. Well done.

Good interface and usability, but lesson content lacked depth.