General Home School Curriculum Guidelines

After you make the decision to home school and look through a few catalogs or look through a couple of web sites, you will find that you need to purchase home school curriculum. This may seem like such a daunting task, especially if you have attended a home schooling convention. The reason that this is happening is that today there really are a lot of different home school curriculum packages that you can choose from. You may be worried that if you do not choose the right one, a whole year will be wasted or that it may be boring or too time-consuming for your family.

Online Curriculum Resources

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For over 25 years Alpha Omega has been developing outstanding Christian home education curriculum! AOP's innovation gives you all the flexibility, convenience, and affordability you've come to expect from a quality curriculum. From CD-ROM and online curriculum to worktext and unit study, we have a curriculum option to fit your family's needs. Visit our website to learn about the possibilities Alpha Omega has to offer you!

Learning Things – The Education Store offers a great selection with below publisher prices for homeschool curriculums like Saxon, Alpha Omega, Bob Jones, and Easy Grammar plus educational toys, videos, and science kits. As one of the foremost retailers of Christian Pre-K to 12th grade curriculums, Learning Things helps make home schooling easier for parents and students alike. Some stores will sell you anything. At Learning Things, we believe we are held accountable for what we sell. Therefore, we review all of our materials carefully to make sure the contents are consistent with the Biblical truths that we believe.

Choosing The Correct Home School Curriculum For Your Home School Needs

There are some questions that you need to ask yourself whenever you are working on choosing the right home school curriculum for your family. These questions are: What do you want from a home school curriculum? What are your child's interests? What is your child's learning style?

Just as the answers to these questions will be different for everyone, you will also discover that there is not a “one size fits all” type of curriculum. Knowing whether your child enjoys reading, drawing, working on the computer or listening to music will also help you to choose the right home school curriculum.

Of course, you really do not have to have a home school curriculum, especially if you are just starting to home school your child. You may simply want to allow your child to explore their own interests, do research on the computer, read books and go places with you. This method of home schooling is actually better known as “unschooling.”

If You Choose The Wrong Home School Curriculum!

Sticking with using the wrong home school curriculum will only permanently scar your child academically. If you happen to choose the wrong home school curriculum and both you and your child are miserable, then get rid of it. Even if you do not have the money to replace it right away, you should still ditch the curriculum. You can also go to a free home schooling resource web site and use their materials for the rest of the year. Of course, if you can afford to purchase new home school curriculum, then go ahead and do so, even if it is already the middle of the year. If you can afford to switch, it's perfectly okay to do that in the middle of the year. 

There are a lot of excellent, traditional curriculums available for the Read/Write learner such as those published by Alpha Omega, A Beka Books, and Bob Jones University Press. You can purchase them at local educational stores, at curriculum fairs, or directly from the publisher. Many homeschool magazine and websites review these traditional curriculums, so the focus of this website is resources that apply to multi-level teaching, unit studies, and products for the Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic learners.

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