Curriculum Guide
Guide to Curriculum Resources and Reading for Catholic Home-Educating Families
Our Lady of the Rosary School
116 1/2 N. Third St., Bardstown, KY 40004
Phone: 502-348-1338 Fax: 888-FAX-OLRS
email: admissions@olrs.com
web: http://www.olrs.com
Our Lady of the Rosary provides a complete curriculum program for prekindergarten through grade twelve. Catholic materials are used predominately. All texts, teacher's manuals, workbooks are included in the program. Weekly lesson plans, quarterly exams, teachers on call, counseling, cumulative record of grades, transcripts, and diplomas are provided. Teacher services include grading of quarterly exams, book reports, major papers, and creative work. Placement testing and standardized achievement testing is available. Single course enrollment is permitted. A family discount is offered when more than one child is enrolled. Books may be kept until the whole family has used them. Curriculum materials may be purchased without enrolling in a program.
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Seton Home Study Program
1350 Progress Drive, Front Royal, VA 22630
Orders only: 540-636-9996
Phone: 540-636-9990 Fax: 540-636-1602
email: info@setonhome.org
web: www.setonhome.org
Seton Home Study Program provides a complete curriculum with daily lesson plans. All texts, teacher's manuals, workbooks are provided. Tests and quarterly exams, of grades, transcripts and diplomas are included. Teacher services likewise include grading of major tests and quarterly exams, book reports, major papers, and creative work. Placement testing, standardized achievement testing and online courses are also available. A tuition prepayment discount is offered as well as a payment plan and a family discount when more than one child is enrolled. Seton is a highly academic, college prep program. Excellent Catholic materials are utilized, many of which are produced by Seton itself. Special needs teachers and programs are available. Curriculum materials may be purchased without enrolling in a program.
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Mother of Divine Grace
P.O. Box 1440, Ojai, California 93024.
Phone: 608-348-6976 Fax: 805-646-0186
email: modg@starband.net
web: www.motherofdivinegrace.org
Mother of Divine Grace offers a consultation service to help parents develop a classical, Catholic curriculum for each individual child in the family from grades one through twelve. Director Laura Berquist is the author of Designing Your Own Classical Curriculm. Enrollment in the basic program provides parents with three consultation periods with director Mrs. Berquist or her assistants. The initial consultation period is devoted to the selection of the curriculum for each child. Adjustments in the curriculum, and some analysis of each student's work is done in the second consultation. Evaluation of the year and curriculum planning for the next year is done in the third consultation. Additional consultation time with teacher is available as needed. Syllabi with day-by-day lessons plans are available at an extra charge. Parents are advised about sources for purchasing books. Also available at an extra charge is the Teacher Assisted Program, which allows for student-teacher interaction, and the special needs program for children with learning disabilities.
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Our Lady of Victory
P.O. Box 819, Post Falls, ID 83854.
Phone: 208-773-7265 Fax 208-773-1951
email: lepanto@olvs.org
Web: www.olvs.org
Our Lady of Victory provides a complete Catholic curriculum for kindergarten through grade twelve. Three options are offered. 1. The full enrollment program provides, lesson plans, answer keys, tests, tutor service, report cards, honor roll, diplomas and graduation ceremony. Records are kept, quarterly progress reports and report cards are issued. Books are purchased in addition to the above fees. 2. The satellite program offers lesson plans, answer keys, and tests but does not include textbooks. Parents assume responsibility of correcting assignments, issuing grades, and keeping records. 3. The last option is purchasing of books only. Our Lady of Victory offers a traditional religion program and encourages only the Latin Tridentine Mass.
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Kolbe Academy Home School
1600 F Street, Napa, CA 94559.
Phone: 707-255-6499 Fax 707-255-1581
email: kolbeacad@earthlink.net
web: www.kolbe.org
Kolbe Academy offers a Catholic and classical home school program for grades one through twelve. Kolbe provides syllabi and weekly course plans, assistance from proctors, books for all courses, quarterly inspection of work, and examinations with parental reports provided. Retention of students' cumulative folder, report cards, transcripts, diplomas, and assessment and achievement testing are also provided. Parents adapt weekly course plans to day-today work and are responsible for preparing and grading of tests and papers, although detailed reports on student work is available on request. The works of great authors upon which western civilization is based form the foundation for the high school curriculum. A family discount is provided for additional students enrolled. Books are purchased separately.
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Catholic Heritage Curricula
1600 F Street, Napa, CA 94559.
Phone: 800-490-7713 Fax 1-209-586-0132
web: www.chcweb.com
CHC offers complete programs with lesson plans at each grade level from Pre K -12: however, it is not a 'pre-packaged' curriculum. Books are purchased separately. Catholic Heritage Curricula came into being specifically to provide Catholic curricula, designed to teach simultaneously both academic skills and the Faith. Daily and weekly lesson plans clearly prioritize core, non-core, and optional enrichment activities. Online features include a Mom-to-Mom Connections area with recently answered questions in a variety of categories from motivation to recordkeeping.
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Regina Coeli
web: www.reginacoeli.org
Rigorous, online Catholic home school, college prep curriculum including advanced placement courses. Student can enroll in selected courses or the complete curriculum. A one-year Confirmation course is also available. The Agnus Dei Junior Program offers courses for middle school students.
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Home Schooling High School
web: www.hslda.org
Check Catholic curriculum providers for information about curriculum, credit requirements, diplomas, transcripts, testing, etc. The Home School Legal Defense Association's website also offers a great deal of information on testing, record keeping, extra curricular activities, driver's ed, resume writing, life skills and more. (Please note this website is Christian, not Catholic.)
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Eclectic Curriculum
Some parents choose to put together their own curriculums drawing from many sources. This approach offers the greatest flexibility but also requires a knowledge of curriculum and resources and possibly greater self discipline. The decision to use a particular program or an eclectic approach does not necessarily have to be a permanent decision. Families periodically reevaluate their curriculum choices and often make changes accordingly as needs or circumstances change.
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Web sites
web: www.love2learn.com
web: www.catholichomeschool.org
While there are hundreds of beneficial web sites, we offer these two because they have listings of additional but lesser known Catholic curriculum providers. We suggest parents carefully evaluate these programs themselves before using them.
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Special Needs
Dyslexia Diagnostic Testing
Peggy Hunter, Phone: 517-886-2237
Peggy is certified in leaning disabilities and trained specifically in teaching dyslexic children. She tests children for a reasonable fee and then teaches parents how to teach their child
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Sensory Dysfunction
Sensory Integration International,
P.O. Box 9013, Torrance, CA. 90508.
Or call Carole 248-486-5375.
Sensory dysfunction is the impairment of the individualâs ability to process sensory information, including such senses as sight, sound, and touch, even the sense of balance and gravity.
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Vision Screening
Vision Screening, Suburban Optometric,
Livonia, MI 48150.
Phone: 810-725-7315.
This screening is a test of the eyesâ coordination in 4 different categories. An in-depth program is offered for those who need help. This can be very helpful for persons with reading difficulties.
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