what is traditional homeschool curriculum?

This is homeschool that looks the most like going to “regular” public school. You can use this curriculum the easiest to manage and set your days up in a certain way. Curriculum is characterized by textbooks, standardized tests, and grade levels. *Also, a super important note, we consider traditional to be hands-on curriculum, not on-line. There are great on-line options that follow the traditional method, but that's not what we are talking about here today.*

Why homeschool this way?

Honestly, this is the way of schooling that most of us are familiar with. You know, being at school with your textbooks and worksheets and tests at the end of every chapter. And for a lot of families there isn’t a need to break away from this tradition. People are going to go with what's familiar and that's cool. I know for me, my sticking point with public school is necessarily the structure of the educational material, it's the content that's being taught.

One word of advice if this is the education path for your family. No curriculum is permanent. Meaning, that if you get into that really awesome curriculum you bought and EVERYONE is jiving with it, except for ONE thing. Get rid of that one thing and find something else to fill its spot.

For example: 

You don't have to do that boring science unit. Or you don't HAVE to take all those tests. Or you don't have to follow that days schedule exactly the way they wrote. Make this curriculum fit for your family's rhythm. 

Ultimately homeschooling is you controlling how you educate your child, not someone else. You get to choose the content your child learns, that's ultimately more important than the style its being delivered in.

 Check out this webpage here that talks about the traditional curriculums that are out there.

Lori 

To know God and to make Him known

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