It is brand, brand new. There is a sample here: http://www.memoriapress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10667 It looks great, if one wants a preschool program. It tempts me, even though I don't think preschool is necessary and I already have too many kids to teach.

I'd start with level A. There is a lot of vocabulary and grammar in LfC, and I would think that even if some of it is familiar, any review that was in there would be a good thing.

I looks like it is written primarily for public schools, so I imagine it is totally secular. As for what ways that manifests itself, it is hard to say since it is a pretty new program and few people are using it yet.

My daughter's third grade plan (I think though I tend to make a few changes up until everything is ordered and in my hands): Language arts: Seton's Spelling for Young Catholics 4 FLL3 WWE3 NAC Handwriting Memoria Press's Poetry Math: TT4 and maybe Beast Academy Science: Behold & See 3 History: From Sea to Shining Sea (from the Catholic Schools Textbook Project) with supplements Geography: Either a mom-made US geography study or Memoria Press's States & Capitals Geography Latin: I Speak Latin and/or GSWL Religion: My Catholic Faith Delivered Logic: Logic Countdown workbook Art: Phonics of Drawing Sr. Wendy art history videos Music: possibly start piano lessons (older siblings are already taking lessons)

I just got MP's Kindergarten plans. I haven't implemented them yet, but they seem perfect to me. Just about the right level of fun and work. I love the memory/recitation work.

Here's the summer reading list for Highlands Latin: http://www.thelatinschool.org/studentlife/summerreadinglist/ And the Logos School reading list: http://logosschool.com/life-at-logos/elementary/elementary-literature-list/ And the Hillsdale Curriculum: http://www.hillsdale.edu/academy/academics/curriculum.asp Hope those help.

It would be very advanced for a second grader, even doing the reading to them.

I use both WWS and a writing heavy history. It depends on the kid. My son does fine. My daughter, who hates to write anything, would never do it.

There is My Catholic Faith delivered to teach catechism. It's an online version of Faith & Life. I would be concerned though that new Catholic kids might need more discussion than such an independent program would necessarily foster. I also like the Seton religion workbooks, which are pretty independent. The CHC stuff we've used can be fairly independent, I think, although I don't care much for their language arts books. Whatever you choose, I would try to figure out where you can combine kids and have them work together. That works better for me than trying to have them do everything independently. And, as someone else pointed out, not everything has to have a Catholic label on it. I steer towards secular materials, when not picking Catholic ones myself, rather than worrying about picking out the Protestant things I disagree with. For my kids, I've handed some of them over to Teaching Textbooks, though I do have to keep an eye on them to make sure they are really getting it. My oldest has math with a video lecture and I only help work through problems/teach when he isn't getting it. I combine history, science, and Latin for my 9 & 7 year old (actually I tried combining all three of my oldest in Latin this year, but that didn't work so well). I use WWE for the 9 & 7 year olds. It isn't independent, but the workload is short and it laid out and easy to implement. I use workbooks for geography and spelling, though for spelling I do give pre- & post-tests, they otherwise work on their own. One thing that has helped me get a handle on things more than anything else, is writing out detailed lesson plans for every week for each kid. However, I do not plan times and sometimes I just skip things and move on if they weren't vital. Also, we don't do very many out of the house activities in this season of life. But as for my house work all getting done? Well...

There is Harmony Fine Arts. http://www.harmonyfinearts.com/

I haven't used most of those books, but I do own Human Odyssey 2 and you wouldn't need vol. 3 for the Early Modern period, since vol. 2 goes up to about 1900 and Early Modern usually ends at 1850. I'm working on my own Early Modern plan right now using History Odyssey as a springboard, but most of my son's reading will come from a Catholic textbook with some stuff from various other sources, including K12's Human Odyssey.

There is Catholic Schools K-12 http://www.csk12life.com/ Don't know anything about it though.

The Mass is written in Latin. When it was translated into English the choice was made to translate in a more paraphrase style, even dropping big sections at times. Although that paraphrase sometimes made for more logical English sentence structure, etc. over time, many came to believe that the paraphrase rather than more exact translation was sub-optimal and did not benefit those worshiping. So in one sense, no change was made. The Latin, in which language things were already written was not changed. But to those of us in English speaking countries, it feels like things have changed, because we're saying things differently. It would be like having the KJV 23 Psalm memorized and then trying to start saying it in the NIV translation. The original didn't change, but the wording in your translation did.

Would this do? http://old.usccb.org/romanmissal/samples-people.shtml

What about Memoria press? Their schedules are very easy to follow day by day schedules.

You can switch out the spine in HO, changing to K12 Human Odyssey is one relatively popular choice around here. I like using HO as a basis for building lesson plans, but I'm using several different books and switching around the order of the lesson (for the Early Modern) level. I like HO for the instructions and maps, but I'm happy to rip it apart and turn it into what I need it to be.

If he loves animals, how will he feel about books where the animals die? I have never liked Where the Red Fern Grows or Old Yeller. So depressing. I could handle Charlotte's Web. Maybe I didn't love spiders quite so much.

I don't take apart workbooks. I buy a lot in PDF, but if it comes bound, it stays bound. That is where the checklist comes in. Bound books they get off their shelf (used to use milk crates, but they were tearing up the books).

I don't take apart workbooks. I buy a lot in PDF, but if it comes bound, it stays bound. That is where the checklist comes in. Bound books they get off their shelf (used to use milk crates, but they were tearing up the books).

They can work independently. Can Behold and See be done mostly without me?

I thought I would ask my daughters which science book they liked better -- the one I was planning to use or the one that I keep coming back to and thinking about. They both agreed they preferred the one I keep coming back to and considering. Except that they now want different levels and I'm just not sure I can manage to do two levels of science for them, plus stay on top of a middle school student's science and start a new Kindergartner off on the world of school. Has anyone ever tried doing two levels of Behold and See at the same time? I think I should make them suck it up and do the same one, right?

They are sister programs. Basically they offer exactly the same books/plans/etc. except that they leave religion out of the Great Books version. They mention this here: http://angelicum.net/curriculum/enrollment/how-much-does-angelicum-k-12-cost/

I have one lesson plan for Angelicum and I assume Great Books would be the same. This is a history plan. It is divided into weeks and then lists a topic to be covered, instructions on which pages in the textbook to read or questions to answer. There are no additional things. It is straight read textbook and answer questions. If you wanted a more living books, writing, project-based course none of that is there (and you still have to divide up the weeks). Based on this lesson plan and one of their literature guides, which I admit is not a lot to go on, I don't think it is all that rigorous, well guided or well produced.

We don't use the DVDs either. We work on it twice a week, just reading the section and talking about it. Then looking for fallacies in the world or making some up is the rest of the work. It is fun to talk over at the dinner table. For sixth grade, we don't make it a tough academic subject.

I do exactly what was mentioned in the OP. Each kid has a binder with 9 dividers in it. Behind each divider, they get a printed page with all their weekly assignments M-F. Behind that, I print out all the worksheet papers that they will need for the week, like all the WWE pages, etc. We've done that for the last two years and I'm pleased with how well it works.