What is the best christian homeschool curriculum?

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I am a successful work at home mom of 4 kids. I have been checking into different homeschool curriculums but was looking for some testimonials of ones that have worked for other parents.

Answer 1

I use several curriculum's, a different one for each subject basically.
I really like Abeka for Language Arts, it is very thorough (I had to get used to the concept that they don't have to do EVERY problem in the book).
I use Math U See for math this year for my youngest. Chalkdust for my oldest in Algebra 1, but I understand that Math U See may have been better. I would NOT recommend Life Pacs or S O S for Math.
I am using a World History Study from Life Pacs and it is really good so far.
For science, and this is the one I REALLY like, I LOVE Apologia! It is such a well balanced thorough curriculum written to the child. It is wonderful, my daughter has thrived on it! It is an immersion program (for k-6) meaning you study one subject most the year. Like Astronomy, Botany, Zoology, and so on. The older kids have a text book type curriculum and it is wonderful as well.
Literature I do with a co-op as well as Language arts, speech, and humanities. They follow a "Charlotte Mason" approach.
I hope this helped!

Answer 2

Christian Homeschool Curriculum

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What is the best christian homeschool curriculum?
I am a successful work at home mom of 4 kids. I have been checking into different homeschool curriculums but was looking for some testimonials of ones that have worked for other parents.

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I'm a graduating homeschool senior (I did it all 12 years), and I must say, for a Christian homeschool curriculum, I would say Abeka hands-down. Their books are vibrant, colorful, and full of pictures, which are very interesting/encouraging for kids. They're known to be about a grade level above what they claim to be (i.e. when they say 5th grade, expect your kids to be doing 6th grade work), but that only helps your kids excel. I know their math is very comprehensive. It doesn't just teach a certain concept, practice it for a couple of days, and then drop the concept. Their math constantly goes back to the basics to build a solid foundation. Abeka English is superb. Their readers are nice, clean stories without any kind of "concept" behind it (i.e. diversity, environmentalism etc.) except for a moral one. Also, their vocabulary and spelling sometimes ties along with their stories so that when the child runs across a hard vocab word, they have already run across it in their vocabulary book so they know the meaning and pronounciation. Abeka history is the best, however. If you choose not to use Abeka, PLEASE use their history! It really makes history come alive. It's interesting, fact filled, and has pictures of the actual places. I know when we went on a trip to the East Coast when I was eight, I felt like I had already been there before and I knew exactly what to look for and be excited about!! Also, for science, they have amazing pictures as well.
All in all, Abeka has seemed to be the best curriculum for Christian Homeschooling. They are amazing in how they push academically without making it seem boring or assigned. I know as a homeschooled kid, I LOVED it!!

http://www.abeka.com

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Alpha Omega-Switched On School House
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Abeka
Modern Curriculum Press (Only for Math)

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What is the best christian homeschool curriculum
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Answer 7

The one that works for us is the Robinson Curriculum.

It focuses on the need for the student to learn how to think things through from start to finish. Everything from math to writing to reading is to be worked independently. Mom is able to do my own work while the children study. I am here to supervise and encourage along with offering occasional help.

The children are capable of mastering every lesson in math. They write a full page every day and they read from many great books for the remainder of time that it takes to fill in 5 to 6 hours.

We have used this self-teaching method since 1997 -'98. I would choose it again in a heart-beat! It really does give the family the tools to learn.

RC was developed by a Christian family with 6 children after their mother passed away. The father was able to stay at home and run his business while the children worked at his side.

I am a moderator of a yahoo group of more than 2000 member families that use RC. Contact me through my profile if you are interested in talking to more people about it.

Answer 8

I would recomend Alpha Omega. Alpha Omega has two curriculums that I would recomend.

Switched-On-Schoolhouse (SOS). My mom recomends this curriculum to absolutly everyone. She uses it for three of my four brothers. This is a computer based curriculum. It can be used from grades 3-12, so if you have younger kids you might not be ready for it, but I'd recomend it for any of you kids who are in 3rd or higher. Some advantages to this curriculum:
*It's very cheap.
*Most of the work is graded by the computer.
*It can be used for up to five kids.

LIFEPAC. This is basically the book version of SOS. One of the only differences is that it runs from K-12, so it can be used for your younger children. This curriculum is also cheap, but all work must be graded by the parent.

Good luck!

Answer 9

The best is of course what works for your children; we like curriculum's that build on each other, flow well, but leave the time table of completion up to us.
I would recommend Christian Liberty Press.
Also known as Christian Liberty Academy.
http://ebiz.netopia.com/clpress/
Their curriculum, and books are solid in content, and quality; as an added bonus, they are *inexpensive*.
We use them as our foundation, and add several other sources, like Apologia Science; for Biology we switched back to CLP, Memoria Press for Latin, Write Shop, Positive Action for Christ; High school level Bible curriculum - Route 66, and The Inner Man, Sonlight and Bethlehem books.

For additional DVD tutorials on Saxon, and other science curriculum's you may want to check out; http://diveintomath.com/

http://www.highschoolscience.com/
http://www.memoriapress.com/
http://www.writeshop.com
http://www.positiveaction.org
http://www.bethlehembooks.com

Answer 10

I absolutely love having the kids work in the A beka books! I don't agree with a lot of their history etc, but they are amazing for learning Math and for generating interest in the younger set. Once you teach your kids to read with a beka's amazing reading program for beginning readers, there is little that you have to teach your child in the math program because they can read the questions and they learn a tiny bit more at a time so it's easy for them to grasp and with stickers you can make your kids feel like they are the best people in the world for doing some pages in Math. I haven't used A beka past second grade... so I don't know more, but I have taught three children grade one and one second grader and we did more than one grade in a year they loved it so much! I used Seton's English program because I'm Catholic and Seton's English is very Catholic. I also used A beka's Science books in school myself and I loved them, especially, Biology.