Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum

The curriculum provides detailed lesson guides with teaching instructions, questions, and activities, supporting direct instruction across all subjects.

Lesson plans include explicit teaching instructions, discussion questions, vocabulary work, and step-by-step activities, with separate Lesson and Lesson Guide tabs for parent guidance during instruction.

The curriculum demonstrates strong integration across subjects, particularly in art, music, and literature lessons that intermix activities and create thematic connections.

Music lessons on Beethoven include art study of Thanksgiving paintings, poetry and art lessons often combine activities, and geography lessons incorporate nature sketching and observations that connect to science content.

The curriculum provides substantial support for parents through detailed lesson guides, background information, and embedded resources, though formal training materials are not mentioned.

Lesson guides include teaching instructions, background material for parents to read, vocabulary support, and extensive activity suggestions, with all materials accessible through the website interface.

The curriculum incorporates some retrieval elements through narration, recitation, and copywork but lacks systematic review and practice across subjects.

Students regularly narrate lessons, memorize and recite poetry, complete copywork exercises, and engage in discussion questions, though there's no mention of cumulative review or spaced practice systems.

The curriculum builds coherent knowledge through carefully sequenced historical and literary selections, though some subjects like science appear less systematically developed.

History progresses from Stories of Great Americans in first grade through ancient civilizations, medieval period, world history, and U.S. history, while literature selections advance from simple stories to classic works like Tom Sawyer and Shakespeare adaptations.

Subject rigor varies significantly, with strong traditional approaches in math and reading but potentially lighter treatment in science through nature stories rather than systematic study.

Math uses the rigorous Ray's Arithmetic series with added hands-on activities, reading follows explicit phonics plus McGuffey Readers, but science relies primarily on nature stories like 'Peter and Polly in Autumn' rather than comprehensive science instruction.