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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