Inside: Easy to use, affordable, excellent Catholic homeschool curriculum (and other great curriculum)
I often get asked what Catholic homeschool curriculum I suggest for particular subjects.
While I do share our curriculum plans every year, I thought it might be helpful to break it down a bit further and share our favorite Catholic homeschool curriculum.
These little books are a standby for our family. They are so simple, affordable, and the perfect gentle introduction for little ones who want to “do school.”
I may get some grief over this choice because Abeka is a known anti-Catholic publisher. Of course, I’ve never found anything in their math books that is anti-Catholic, but I don’t appreciate supporting a known anti-Catholic organization.
That said, I’ve looked far and wide for an early math program that comes close to the ease of use and rigor of Abeka Arithmetic. We use their affordable workbooks (no teacher book necessary) for grades K – 3rd.
This is a new to us resource that I am loving. It is rigorous but has lots of practice problems so I’m not left trying to make up practice problems. We previously used Saxon for our oldest son, but I much prefer the traditional approach of these no-nonsense textbooks.
Memoria Press is a new curriculum for us. Many of their courses can be taken through the Memoria Press Online Academy.
It’s been a relief to our family to hand off these more intense subject to an outside source as well as let our son experience learning from someone other than me.
Their courses and books are traditional and rigorous.
We were blessed to be gifted with these Little Angel Readers. They have provide great practice for my beginning readers. They have accompanying workbooks if you are interested, but we don’t use those.
Once our children become established readers, we move into spelling. I’ve tried lots of different spelling programs over the years but have come to love the affordable and easy to use workbooks from Seton.
The Seton handwriting workbooks provide a lot of practice and we rarely complete a book in a year’s time. My children enjoy the timeless art and learning about the saints in their books.
This is the program that took my son from staring at a blank page to writing beautifully! I never question where I will shop for our writing curriculum.
Mr. Pudewa breaks down the writing process in an incredibly easy to understand process.
For middle school, our children continue to work through deeper levels of the Baltimore Catechism with this series. The child reads it and we have discussions once a week.
Science
Reading and nature study (elementary)
We keep science very, very simple in elementary. The children read widely and study things that are interesting to them. We save formal science for 8th-12th.
Guided by a sweet reader, our family has picked up the Story of Civilization audiobooks. This series is very similar to Story of the World but done by a Catholic company.
My oldest son enjoyed learning a bit of Latin in middle school. I wouldn’t call this course rigorous, but it has helped with his high school courses and with his understanding of English grammar.
If you need a bit of inspiration for memory work, The Harp and the Laurel Wreath is an excellent resource. It is also a wonderful collection of poems to read aloud.
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