Sunday, January 22, 2012

Free Bible Curriculum for Homeschool: Using What Works


Today I want to share a few free Bible curriculum that we have used  in our homeschool over the years. We have tried more than these. But the following Bible lessons have worked very well for us.

When my children were pre-readers or just beginning to read I used DLTK’s Bible lesson plans. I’d print out the coloring pages or the mini books and have the children work on those while we listened to the passages of scripture from our dramatized audio Bible. (Nowadays we listen to the Bible on my smart phone using a free app.) And I’d ask the children a few questions to see if they understood the lesson. This worked very well when I had 3 that were all very small at the same time.

Once the children were reading and writing we switched to Calvary Chapel’s children’s curriculum. This site offers free lessons for over 200 Old Testament Bible stories and 175 New Testament ones. What is so great about this curriculum is that each lesson has a coloring page, fill in the blank pages, a crossword, a word search, and possibly an additional activity that helps reinforce the lesson. My oldest used this until he was about 8 years old. But then he came to me and said he felt that he was too old for the lessons.

So now he uses  Padfield.com’s Bible Curriculum. He reads the passages himself and does all of the work on his own, which he prefers. Sometimes he’ll ask me questions about his studies or we’ll have some discussions about the Word of God in general.

Since changing over to a more simplified way of doing school a few months back, I have switched to a Charlotte Mason approach to Bible study with my 3 youngest. I use this reading list and read one Bible story a day. Then the children are free to discuss it if they wish, but I do not prod them to.

Hopefully one of these Bible curriculum will be useful in your homeschool as well.


Serfronya Wallace
    The six loves of Serfronya Wallace's life are God, her husband, and her 4 children - whom she homeschools. Serfronya enjoys sharing educational tips and writing about her family's homeschooling journey at Cookie's Domain.

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    2 comments:

    Unknown said...

    We have used the Calvary Chapel Bible Curriculum and the DLTK's bible lessons too. I need to check out the Padfield.com's. I have never heard of that one before. What is working for us this year is Notgrass Draw to Learn : Psalms. My son loves it. I know it is not free but it is really inexpensive. Great blog by the way. Off to check out more of it. Thanks for the great post.

    Lil Momma at Five in Training for HIM is being lead by God to be a christian homeschooling family.

    momto8 said...

    thank you for this information! Teaching a child, or anyone! to love Scripture is always a god thing!
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