Welcome to Catholic School House in Northern Vermont!
Our program meets once per week for a total of 24 weeks from September to May with one week off per month and longer breaks around Thanksgiving, Advent/Christmas, and Holy Week/Easter Week. Our year is divided into 6 week quarters.
Catholic Schoolhouse students study the same topics at all ages creating family unity. The Tour Guide presents weekly memory work in 10 areas: history timeline, geography, history, religion, music, art, science, math, language arts, and Latin.
Having all scholars use the Tour Guide’s content facilitates family cohesiveness and simplifies lessons for home educators. At the dinner table, an 8th grader, 5th grader, and 2nd grader can all talk about physics, history, and art. The 8th grader will be able to go more in-depth into subjects than the younger siblings, but all children will be able to talk about the interesting things they are learning.
In our weekly chapter meeting, in addition to the memory work class time, the grammar students have a science lab, an art class and opportunities to give presentations to a friendly audience.
Our dialectic scholars have alternate weeks of a 1-hour science experiment and a 1-hour art class. Dialectic scholars read, have Socratic style discussions, and write about one book per quarter. They also learn to write papers in many different genres using the IEW program.
Scholars learn about 5 key events in history each week. Each card has a picture representing an event, and the back has several paragraphs for deeper learning for older scholars.
All memory work is set to music to make learning easier and fun!
In addition to a weekly co-op, we have quarterly “Parents’ Night Out” and quarterly field trips. The field trips are chosen to complement content in the Tour Guide for that quarter.
Catholic Schoolhouse is more than a day out of the house; it can help bring structure and cohesiveness to your entire homeschool experience and will bless your family!
We would love to have you join our community. Please get in touch to arrange a visit or attend an information night to learn more.
Catholic Schoolhouse is loyal to the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church.