Find the Best Christian Curriculum
Christian curriculum is easy to find, but hard to chose what is right for your family. If I was starting homeschooling today I would have to pray about the curriculum to use. I would also have to ask other homeschoolers that I trusted.
When I started to homeschool there was only several Christian curriculum available. I found a book by Raymond Moore in my Christian bookstore. I wrote to the Moore Foundation and got their catalog. They recommended the Weaver, so I bought it.
Now there are so many choices. I have looked on the internet and talked to other homeschoolers. The list here is some of the choices that I have come up with, but there are many more.
A Beka
A beka provides a traditional Christian education. The website says that they do not paraphrase progressive textbooks and add Christian view points. A beka writers research each subject and created textbooks with a Christian world view.
A beka has over 800 textbooks for children preschool through twelfth grade. You can order a kit or separate books.
A beka has several academy options. They have a video option where your child can watch videos of teachers. Textbooks are also included. You can chose to keep records of your child's work or have A Beka keep the records.
Another academy option is to use textbooks only. The child does the work and the parent sends the work to A beka for evaluation.
Sonlight
Sonlight is a Christian curriculum that uses literature to teach. Sonlight believes that good books can show us spiritual insights. They also believe that literature can develop critical thinking skills.
The curriculum comes with instruction guides. The instruction guide helps you with reading schedules and student activities. The guides also integrates the subject material.
One thing that makes Sonlight unique is that it has a missionary focus. History is studied from an international perspective. One of the goals of Sonlight is to understand other people and not judge them. I had a friend that used Sonlight and liked it.
My Father's World
My Father's World is a Christian curriculum that combines Charlotte Mason with classical teaching. It presents a Christian world view.
My Father's World uses a hands-on approach to learning. It is also a unit study. The second through eighth grade can be used with multi ages, so that the whole family is studying the same things. There is also a high school curriculum.
Heart of Wisdom
In Heart of Wisdom the Bible is center to teaching. The first half of the day is spent studying the Bible. Academics is secondary to the Bible. History and science are filtered through the Bible. History is studied chronological and science is in creation order.
Heart of Wisdom is a unit study. It is good for multilevel teaching. Heart of Wisdom uses a four year rotation. Over the course of 12 years a child will learn each of the rotations three times.
Heart of wisdom combines several teaching method. They believe in using real books like Charlotte Mason.
There are several samples of lessons that you can download for free.
Cottage Grove
Cottage Grove provides unit studies. The unit studies use hands on materials. They also have a school that will help you especially if you have a child with special needs. They provide diagnostic testing (the Woodcock Johnson Diagnostic test) by teachers that are certified in special education.
They can provide custom designed curriculum. At Cottage Grove you can find mentoring. The also provide protection if the government ever needs an accounting.
They can also organize field trips and high school graduation. They also provide brain skills cognitive training.
This is the first homeschool curriculum that I have found that provides support for children who have special needs. I like there philosophy that the parent is the authority and Cottage Grove is in partnership with you. No curriculum is chosen without input from the parent.
Other Christian Curriculum
There is many other curriculum. There are textbooks by Bob Jones University, Christian Liberty Press, and Apologia. For a more detailed list of curriculum please read Cathy Duffy's book 100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum: Choosing the Right Curriculum and Approach for Your Child's Learning.
Christian Book Distributor has a lot of textbooks and curriculum. Another place to find textbooks and curriculum is Rainbow Recourse Center. There are also other good book distributors. Like I said in the beginning there is a lot of different Christian curriclum.
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