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Below you will find some helpful links to other homeschooling web sites.  Please let us know if these sites are useful to you, and feel free to make suggestions.

Legal/Homeschooling Law

Home School Legal Defense Association

Families for Home Education (Missouri)

Handy St. Joseph Links

City of St. Joseph

St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce

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HOME EDUCATION CURRICULUM
Are you looking for curriculum?  Perhaps you are new to home education and don't know where to start, or, perhaps you are looking to try something new.  Below you will find a list of available curriculum options for home educating families. 

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SECULAR CURRICULUM PROVIDERS

 

Usborne Books/Educational Development Corporation

 

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Educational Development Corporation and Usborne books have received many prestigious awards recognizing their contribution to the world of literacy such as the American Bookseller Pick of the List Award, Austin Young Engineer's Award, Dr. Toy Awards, Education Source for Top 10 Best Art Product Award, Informal Education Product of the Year Award, Latino Literary Hall of Fame, Parent's Choice Awards, Parent Council Awards, Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards, Teacher's Choice Awards, Accelerated Reader Awards, Lifeworks Real Life Awards, and others.  (To view a complete list, please visit http://www.edcpub.com/corp/awards.htm.)


Wonderful educational books include titles on the human body, encyclopedias, history refrences, various topics in science, classic literature, etc. 

 

Sonlight Curriculum

www.sonlight.com

Although this company is Christian, they use many secular books (great literature, Usborne science books, etc.).  Bible can easily be omitted.  Pre K - 12


Singapore Math

For math, there is Singapore math www.singaporemath.com, which is excellent.  This program is, as the name suggests, is the curriculum used in Singapore.  Singapore students have scored high on international math tests, and it is easy to see why with this rigorous program.  Pre K - 12

Saxon Math

Also, there is Saxon math
http://saxonhomeschool.harcourtachieve.com/en-US/saxonhomeschool.htm,
another excellent secular program. Pre K- 12

Loyola Press

For English, there is Loyola Press This is a Catholic publisher, but they have removed all of the religious content from their materials.  The textbooks are wholesome and rigorous. 

http://www.loyolaeducationgroup.org/ K-8

The Well Trained Mind

Another excellent resource is The Well Trained Mind (available at local
bookstores) and
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/ This book is based on classical education, and covers all subjects.  Pre K - 12

Harcourt and Pearson Education

Of course, the secular textbook publishers also offer books to home
educators, such as Pierson Learning, etc. 
http://www.pearsoned.com/
Harcourt, etc. 
http://www.harcourtachieve.com/  K - 12

Teacher Created Materials (Resources)

http://www.teachercreated.com/

This company has a lot of supplemental material like Spectrum Math, etc. K - 12

Educator's Publishing Service 
http://www.epsbooks.com/

Good stuff for grammar, reading, phonics, etc.  This is the publisher of the famous “Wordly Wise” vocabulary series.  K- 12

Rainbow Resource 

http://www.rainbowresource.com/index.php

This is a good catalog to have.  They have almost everything that you can imagine for home education.  They cater to secular as well as Christian families. K – 12

 

Oak Meadow

Accredited K – 8.

www.oakmeadow.com

 

IQ Academy

www.gotoiq.com

Accredited.

 

Compuhigh

Accredited high school.

www.compuhigh.com

 

Mott Media

www.mottmedia.com

Very old traditional schoolbooks, like the ones that were used in the Little House on the Prairie school!  Rays Arithmetic, etc.

 

Free-Ed

Just found this one, don't know much about it, but it looks interesting:
http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/  High School

 

Sycamore Tree

This company has curriculum as well as accredited secular and Christian programs that you can enroll in.

http://www.sycamoretree.com/ K - 12

Calvert School

http://www.calvertschool.org

This is a well known accredited school.  You can purchase some courses individually, or, enroll your student for at home distance learning.  K - 8

Connections Academy

http://www.connectionsacademy.com

Public school program at home.  Free.    K - 10

K12

http://www.k-12.com/

Traditional, classic education.   Online learning.   K – 9

 

CHRISTIAN CURRICULUM PROVIDERS

 

ABEKA

www.abeka.com

Every subject, Pre K- 12, and they are well known for their rigorous math program.  DVD school also available.  Choose accredited enrollment or just the textbooks.

 

Bob Jones University Press

This curriculum moves more at the public school pace, but is very good.  They offer satellite dish feeds for lessons as well as DVD’s and just textbooks.  They also offer testing services.

www.bjupress.com

 

Covenant Home

www.covenanthome.com

 

Sonlight

www.sonlight.com

 

Alpha Omega

www.aop.com

Self-guided teaching via the Switched on Schoolhouse computer CD’s are available here.  Grads Pre K – 12 (SOS grades 3 – 12)

Let us know if there are any web sites that you enjoy and we'll consider including them on this page!

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