I stared using My Father’s World Homeschool curriculum in 2012 and I have not looked back. I am currently teaching My Father’s World Kindergartner and My Father’s World Rome to Reformation Homeschool Boxed Curriculum. Here is some information that I have learned about My Father’s World and their curriculums that I want to share with you.
My Father’s World Homeschool Curriculum is an All-In-One Homeschool or Homeschool Boxed Curriculum. It was founded by missionaries David and Marie Hazell. My Father’s World offers 14 different curriculums for preschools up to high school. These curriculums also allow you to teach different aged children at the same time.
I chose to use a Christian based homeschool curriculum for my children. We use My Father’s World and I love it! It comes with all the lessons planned out for me and all worksheets needed for the lessons. I love how the Bible and God’s word is incorporated into the curriculum. My Father’s World even suggests what math and language to use for the older grades. The history curriculum was created for teaching multiple grades at once. I love My Father’s World Curriculums!
I wanted to know more about My Father’s World so I contacted them to find out more about their history and this is what they sent me. “My Father’s World was founded by missionaries David and Marie Hazell. In the early 1990s, the Hazells moved to Russia to work for the Institute for Bible Translation. While living in Siberia and later in Moscow, the Hazells became involved in translating, printing, and distributing children’s Bibles, copies of the New Testament, and Bibles in many languages.
Prior to moving to Russia, Marie, a speech and language specialist and teacher, spent years teaching language development kindergarten, and later kindergarten and first grade. Her experiences homeschooling her children inspired Marie to develop a Bible-based curriculum for use with homeschooling as well as Christian school classrooms. In 1998, a home school educator and writer contacted the Hazells in Russia to inquire about purchasing a copy of a kindergarten curriculum Marie had written. The Hazells worked with friends and family back home in the United States to set up an online store through which they could sell the curriculum.
In 1999, Marie created a unique curriculum for first grade. The Hazells began to sell this curriculum through the online store. The Hazells’ kindergarten and first grade curriculums became popular with homeschool families. By 2000, the business became too large for their friends and family to manage on the side. The Hazells moved back to the United States to help focus on selling the curricula. A year later, the Hazells quit their jobs to work full time on this business, which became My Father’s World.
The Hazells eventually incorporated their business, forming MFW Books and MFW Inc. MFW Books sells curricula and resources. MFW Inc. owns various rights to products. As used herein, ‘MFW’ refers to MFW Books and MFW Inc. collectively.
As educators, the Hazells studies pedagogy and various pedagogical approaches. For homeschooling, there are multiple approaches to education, to include the classical style of education, unit studies, Charlotte mason’s philosophy for educating children, textbooks and workbook studies, literature studies, and unschooling. Most homeschool curricula focused on one of the these styles of learning and educating.
The Hazells recognized that combining several approaches would result in better learning opportunities for students. They set about creating an educational program that combines the classical approach to education, unit studies, and Charlotte Mason’s teaching philosophies. Other homeschool curriculum creators were not using this type of fusion approach at the time the Hazells developed their curriculum. Today, most curricula still favor one learning style while the MFW continues to combine several pedagogical philosophies.
In deciding which books to include in each of its curricula, My Father’s World strive to select books that teach a Biblical worldview to encourage children to live purposefully and on mission for God’s kingdom and glory with a strong academic foundation. Each book is considered individually as to whether the content helps accomplish these goals. Every book My Father’s World considers is read cover to cover to determine if it would further the messages My Father’s World seeks to teach.
My Father’s World obtains books to review for inclusion in its curricula by researching through many sources. My Father’s World uses its local library systems and routinely maximizes the number of books an individual may check out at one time. My Father’s World also reviews publishers’ catalogues, scours vendor booths at homeschool conventions, conducts online research, and obtains suggestions from friends and colleagues. My Father’s World’s offices house 600 linear feet of shelf space containing a small fraction of the books considered for My Father’s World’s curricula. My Father’s World has researched and reviewed thousands of books and resources.
When My Father’s World believes it has developed a strong curriculum, it works with pilot families to try the curriculum. The pilot families provide feedback to My Father’s World. Based on that feedback, My Father’s World may add or remove items from it curriculum to create a better product.
My Father’s World selected and arranged resources in its curriculum based on My Father’s World ’s pedagogic goals, mission, and worldview, with an eye towards helping students achieve academic excellence.
My Father’s World’s curriculum includes instruction as an element of its curriculum. My Father’s World thoughtfully and artistically arranges the materials included in its curriculum in a manner so that they are interconnected to each other and draw on a related theme. For example, instead of reading a resource straight through, from front cover to back cover, some lessons may use only portion of a resource, and some resources may not be read or studies in order.
My Father’s World’s curricula includes literature, history, geography, science, reading (read aloud, read on theme, read at grade level), Greek and Latin roots, character development, Bible, art and music. My Father’s World was among the first home school curricula to add chronological science, art and music to its curricula.
My Father’s World design its curricula to be flexible for different ages to allow families to learn together. Drawing on the historical one-room schoolhouse, My Father’s World developed a curricula for grades 2-8 that could be used for all the children within those grades at one time. For example, if a family has a 2nd grader, a 5th grader, and a 7th grader, the family could use the same curriculum for most of their subjects, such as social studies, Bible, and science. A graphic depicting how the 2nd-8th grade curriculum may be used at various levels is shown below:
Because math and language arts are age-specific subjects, for example, a 2nd grade math level and a 5th grade math level are different, My Father’s World provides the resources for these subjects by grade level. As a result, homeschool families can educate their children efficiently and effectively.
My Father’s World works with various publishers to develop books that are acceptable to the general public as well as to Christian homeschool families. For example, some Christian homeschool families prefer to teach creation science as opposed to evolutionary theory. My Father’s World works with publishers to change evolutionary language to language that will work with both audiences. Publishers working with My Father’s World change the phrase “millions of years ago” to “many years ago.” As way of a second example, My Father’s World asked book publishers of its world cultures curriculum to add information to enhance cultures and countries studied in that curriculum, and the publisher did so.
In addition to the resources it selects and arranges from third parties, My Father’s World creates, itself and through publishers, unique resources that are only available through My Father’s World. My Father’s World combines these element to create original curricula.
My Father’s World writes its own math curriculum for preschool, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and first grade. Starting in second grade, for each curriculum, My Father’s World recommends parent us particular mathematics resources.
My Father’s World Preschool for 3’s
All Aboard the Animal Train is a year-long hands-on learning adventure with fun and easy-to-teach Bible-based lessons. This curriculum teaches about 12 animals through stories, finger plays, creative play, and colorful animal cookie cutters.
My Father’s World Preschool for 4’s
On the Voyage of Discovery, this curriculum helps children gain academic readiness skills with the alphabet and numbers. They will enjoy read-aloud times, develop fine and large motor skills, and increase in cognitive skills.
My Father’s World Kindergarten
My Father’s World created and developed a unique, original curriculum for Kindergarten students called God’s Creation From A to Z.
My Father’s World created and designed God’s Creation From A to Z to teach kindergartners about the natural world using the Creation story from Genesis. My Father’s World created and developed hands-on units about plants, animals, geological features comprising creation. My Father’s World chose hands-on exercises, classic literature, fine arts, and character development resources for each of its units based around Creation.
My Father’s World First Grade
My Father’s World designed a first grade curriculum entitled Learning God’s Story: Complete First Grade Curriculum.
First Grade is designed around the them of Biblical history from Genesis to Revelation. My Father’s World selected and arranged resources to be part of this curriculum in a way to create units that enhance and support the themes of Biblical history generally as well as the particular occurrences specifically being studied.
My Father’s World Adventures in US History
My Father’s World created a curriculum focusing of American history for second and third graders called Adventures in U.S. History.
My Father’s World selected Exploring American History, which includes narratives of United States history and strong visual such as photographs, maps and reproductions for engaging students.
My Father’s World Exploring Countries and Cultures
My Father’s World decided to develop a curriculum that could be used with 2nd through 8th graders to teach world cultures. To that end, My Father’s World developed a curriculum called Exploring Countries and Cultures. The Hazells recognized that students should learn about the world’s geography and its diverse cultures before starting to study history. This would both give students a better foundation for their later work, create awareness of diversity, and helps instruct about God’s heart of the world.
My Father’s World Creation to the Greeks
My Father’s World created a world history course focusing on ancient civilization for use with 2nd through 8th grade students. My Father’s World’s curriculum is designed to focus on how the Biblical account in the Old Testament fits with other civilizations of the time, to include Egypt, Greece, and Babylon. My Father’s World named its curriculum Creation to the Greeks.
My Father’s World Rome to the Reformation
My Father’s World created and developed a curriculum that can be used with 2nd through 8th grade students focusing on the time period from the Roman Empire though the Middle Ages, and ending with the Renaissance and the Reformation My Father’s World titled this curriculum Rome to the Reformation.
My Father’s World Exploration to 1850
My Father’s World offers a curriculum for 2nd through 8th grade students entitled Exploration to 1850. This curriculum examines the New World starting with early explorers as Leif Ericsson and culminating in the California Gold Rush.
My Father’s World 1850 to Modern Times
My Father’s World offers a curriculum entitled 1850 to Modern Times. This curriculum discusses U.S. and World History form 1850 to the present.
My Father’s World Ancient History and Literature
My Father’s World created a curriculum called Ancient History and Literature. Ancient History and Literature is a one-year curriculum that integrates history, English, and Biblical Studies. MFW also provides science and math programs that should be used in conjunction with Ancient History and Literature.
My Father’s World World History and Literature
My Father’s World created a curriculum called World History and Literature. World History and Literature is a one-year curriculum for high school students integrating world history form Rome to the present, church history, English, and Bible Studies.
My Father’s World US History to 1877
My Father’s World created a curriculum titled U.S. History to 1877. U.S. History to 1877 teaches government, American history, American Literature, and Bible Studies. MFW considered hundreds of resources to select what it would include in its curriculum.
My Father’s World US History 1877 to the Present
My Father’s World created and developed a unique curriculum titled U.S. History 1877 to Present.
My Father’s World elected to include economics in its modern U.S. history curriculum. My Father’s World created an Economics Package that includes the resources Common Sense Economics, Money Greedy and God, and Economics for Life.”
My Father’s World Curriculums in Action
Homeschooling is not always easy, but I would not have it any other way! I have filmed several A Day In The Life Of A Homeschool Mom videos. I wanted everyone to see what our typical day looks like. Yes, we have good and bad days, but we have way more good. I’m blessed to spend so much time with my children, watch them light up when we learn a topic they are passionate about, and provide them with the tools they need to grow into the best young man and young women they can be. Homeschooling may not be for every family and that is ok, but I wanted parents who had questions or were debating homeschooling to be able to see an actual homeschool day. In these videos you will see how we use My Father’s World curriculum during a homeschool day.
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