is there a homeschooling cirriculum I can buy online WITHOUT a christian base?
August 1, 2009 by Homeschooling Support and Curriculum Tips
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Can you answer Mr. Nine Thousand’s question about Homeschooling?:
I’m trying to find a homeschooling curriculum online but its all based around christian fantasies. I want to teach my son real stuff, not christian crap! Where can I find one?
Online High School Homeschooling
I’m trying to find a homeschooling curriculum online but its all based around christian fantasies. I want to teach my son real stuff, not christian crap! Where can I find one?
Online High School Homeschooling
Homeschooling Feedback: There are pleanty of secular curriculua materials out there. Instead of researching complete homeschool curriculum, just look for materials you can use for each individual subject (a good way to go since many children learn differently in different areas… i.e. visual for math, audible for language, etc. Math-U-See, Saxon, and Teaching Textbooks are good for Math. I like Glencoe-McGraw Hill’s science texts and videos, but I’m using mine as more of a guide line and supplementing the information in the books with science related field trips, lab kits, videos, and computer software. History can be done with a textbook or computer software, or it can be done entirely with videos and non-fiction books from the library. Just start with early humans and move on in chronological order. You can use textbooks for Geography, but a globe and an atlas are all you really need. Teach basic map reading concepts, then if you want to teach the geography of certain regions, youc an create worksheets by scanning pages of an atlass and editing out the names of places and land masses on your computer before reprinting, then have a child fill them in, or whatever kind of assignment suits you. Reading doesn’t require a textbook. Teach phonics and reading strategies, but for the love of literature please dont use one of those stupid public school reading textbooks that give the kids watered-down, butched passages from great works of literature and ask maaningless questions at the end. Let your child read REAL books, and if you want to know that he’s comprehending what he reads, TALK about the books. Have him tell you what he liked or disliked, what he thought of certain parts, have him write a summmary and review, or do a creative project like taking a chapter of the book and adapting it to make a puppet show or play. There are programs and workbooks you can use for teaching grammar and mechanics as well as spelling and vocabulary. It might be a good idea to teach your child Greek or Latin at an early age as this will boost their English vocabulary and ability to recognize new words sky-high. Foreign language can be accomplished with programs like Rosetta Stone, with recordings, or with a combination of recordings and written texts. Any other subjects should be easy to find. Just look in book stores and in the library in the non-fiction section, take classes in the community, go online, or join a homeschool gorup that can help you find and obtain resources. ANy parent/child team can design their own curriculum. Just know what you want and take it one subject at a time. Good luck!
Homeschooling Feedback: Here are some links. I don’t know why you couldn’t find them
.http://www.harcourt.com/
Those are the first three I found when I did a search.
We find Glencoe and Harcourt books discarded from the schools. Language Arts and Math don’t change from year to year. History shouldn’t change and when Science changes, you can find updates online and in the news.
We use lots of online material. One of my favorites is
Hope this helps to find what you consider ‘the real stuff’.
SecularHomeschool.com has a complete list of secular homeschool curriculum on their resource page. Anyone who is looking for non-faith-based materials would do well to check it out!
Homeschooling Feedback: Would you say such words to the faces of those in here who homeschool and are Christian? Do you only have friends who are non-Christian? Or do your Christian friends not realize how you look down upon them? I am saddened by your remarks. NOT because you aren’t Christian, but because of how you are treating other people.
In any case, I’m still willing to help. It’s unclear from your question if you are looking for an online curriculum or just want to purchase curriculum through an online site. K12 and Connections Academy are online public and charter schools. They are not Christian. I don’t know of anything else online for younger than high school that isn’t Christian.
If you are just wanting to purchase a curriculum online but use it offline, check into Oak Meadow. Other than that, you might be better off selecting subject resources separately. Do a search for secular homeschool curriculum. There are numerous people who have put together websites with company links and resource suggestions for those who do not want a religious curriculum.
ADDED: I now understand why your language is the way it is. With the name “your mom”, a very popular teen saying around here, I decided to look into your profile. It seems you are 13, not a parent at all. You would do well to learn to be more respectful of others and to NOT lie and portray yourself to be someone you aren’t.
Homeschooling Feedback: Others have given you answers about the curriculum, I’ll add in this one which is a school that respects all people’s beliefs (unlike you) and therefore offers a secular program even though the school is run by Christians.
Now, on-line it is difficult to tell that they offer secular material, I think they need to improve their website in that area, but if you call them they can set you up with a complete program from your secular point of view.
714-668-1343
or you can e-mail them
I understand that you don’t believe the same things as Christians, but I sincerely hope that you develop a little of that tolerance secular people are always preaching about… otherwise I fear that your child will end up as bigoted as yourself, and that won’t be a good thing.
Here are few others: (carries both secular and Christian materials)
God bless…. oh sorry… I mean may the random forces of chance and natural selection NOT select you out for destruction.
Homeschooling Feedback: I agree with glurpy children playing game goodness
Homeschooling Feedback: Here are some lists some may be repeats: States which is secular
Also look at the series the complete book of …(subject)
Dollar store has good resources until around 6th.
It also really depends the age of the child.
Homeschooling Feedback: Christian Fantasies? Christian Crap?? I think he needs Christian stuff they way you act!
EDIT: Hmm? This is fishy. Your mom gave up on homeschooling you. You spelled Curriculum wrong as of 3 weeks ago you were 13! You are talking out of BOTH sides of your mouth and being a Liar one way or another! SO witch one is true and witch one is a Lie???????
Look at her profile and the questions that are there and you will see this is a Lieing Gimmick!
Homeschooling Feedback: It’s nice to know you’re only 13, and not a mom who would say something so stupid. Actualy christianity is the real stuff and the other stuff is just fantasies that can’t be proved.
That makes me sound really mean , but I’m not trying to be, it’s just that I love what I believe and I really love my God and when someone says something bad about that, something inside me snaps and I get really upset. Like I told someone else, I guess if you’re not a christian and have never asked God for help the you can’t prove that God is real, but if you were me and saw the miracles that I have then you could prove it and it would be up to everybody else to believe it. God means so much to me, He’s always there for me when I need Him. He don’t always answer the way I want Him to, but He knows what He’s doing and thats ok with me.
Homeschooling Feedback: I create a large amount of my curriculum.
I use Saxon Math…
and I use the core knowledge sequence (what your child should know by ___ grade) (http://coreknowledge.org/CK/index.htm ) as a foundation to build my curriculum on. I use the library a lot and do a lot of project work. I don’t mind teaching Christian values, but I really found that I didn’t like that curriculum much. I prefer to teach my son about religion in my own way, not have it injected into the texts. I know a lot of people like that, I respect that, but I am not one of them.
Homeschooling Feedback:
That’s what I did.
Homeschooling Feedback: ohdela. but i’m a Christian and how dare you! well what ever it’s not christian based at all