CABRILLO POINT ACADEMY
Popular Curriculum Choices - 2021/2022
Before choosing a curriculum consider the following questions:
- How does my child learn best?
- What type of teaching would I prefer?
- What are the state standards for my child's grade level? (The I Can statements for each grade are listed here)
- What will our schedule look like?
Charting the Course with Cabrillo Point Academy!
Cabrillo Point Academy In House Curriculum
Our academic program is designed to be extremely flexible and customizable. Working together, credentialed teachers and parents design a learning plan that can incorporate:
- A variety of curriculum options and platforms
- Academic support including interventions
- A child’s optimal learning modalities
- Seemingly limitless enrichment resources, materials, and experiences
- School sponsored learning enrichment, field trips, and student activities
- A blend of virtual and in-person support
If you are looking for an engaging, easy-to-follow learning platform, explore the options below managed by our Curriculum Department.
High School Curriculum Roadshow
Other Curriculum Options
Families are welcome to choose their favorite curriculum, either through School-Adopted curriculum options or textbook, online and learning center vendors of choice. Curriculum costs vary and options are ordered through Enrichment Ordering System if not listed on the Curriculum Survey.
If you need help choosing a curriculum that fits your child's needs, please first reach out to your homeschool teacher (HST).
Below are some popular options!
All in One
ALL-IN-ONE CURRICULUM WEBINARS
MOBY MAX - The recording is available here.
STUDY.COM - The recording is available here.
TIME4LEARNING - This recording is available here.
MOVING BEYOND THE PAGE - The recording is available here.
TIMBERDOODLE - The recording is available here.
OAK MEADOW - The recording is available here.
MEMORIA PRESS - The recording is available here.
SCHMOOP - The recording is available here.
Bookshark
From their website: BookShark is a complete, literature-based homeschool curriculum developed for students from pre-k through high school. Our curriculum uses a variety of educational resources including literary fiction and nonfiction, biographies, illustrations, and hands-on experiments to deliver an engaging and complete education that extends beyond textbook memorization.
BookShark combines a proprietary History, Science, and Language Arts program with a range of math options, including Math-U-See, Saxon, Singapore, and RightStart, to ensure you have everything you need for an entire school year—36 weeks.
Moving Beyond the Page
From their website: Moving Beyond the Page is a comprehensive homeschool curriculum that covers science, social studies, and language arts.
Oak Meadow
From their website: At Oak Meadow, we see you as a traveler on a journey of learning—a fellow educator, not just a customer. We’re here for you, we listen to you, and we’ll support and guide you through one of the most important decisions you’ll make as a parent: how to educate your child.
Our print-based curriculum can be used independently by homeschoolers, or through enrollment in our teacher-supported distance learning school. Our approach is compassionate and student-centered because we believe that children are sensitive and intelligent and that learning can be joyfully integrated into life.
Timberdoodle
From their website: Timberdoodle, a family-owned company, has been finding crazy-smart supplies for homeschooling since 1985. Our goal is to offer unique and innovative homeschooling items that are fun for kids and parents. Our special emphasis is engineering, hands-on, and thinking-skills products that kids love.
Our Curriculum Kits contain our favorites for each grade level, but we love to help families cherry-pick what works best for their children. That is why we are delighted to help you, free of charge, to custom-fit your curriculum to be perfect for your family.
Five in a row
Wonderful children’s books are the focus in all levels of Five in a Row; they capture attention and provide inspired learning opportunities for every child. Visit our product pages to learn more about each level of Five in a Row and which one is the best fit for you and your child.
Website: https://fiveinarow.com/new/
Critical Thinking Company
From their website: Since 1958, our award-winning products have helped students of all abilities achieve better academic results with highly effective lessons that sharpen the mind as they teach standards-based reading, writing, mathematics, science, and history. Our products are fun, easy to use, and guaranteed to produce better grades and higher test scores.
We design critical thinking into our reading, writing, math, science, and history lessons so students carefully analyze what they are learning. Deeper analysis produces deeper understanding, which results in better grades and higher test scores. Over time, students who practice critical thinking learn to apply it throughout their education and lives.
Blossom and Root
Time4Learning
The Time4Learning program has been refined through years of feedback from educators, parents, and students. Animated lessons, interactive activities, printable worksheets, and detailed progress reports make this learning system an ongoing top selection of the Homeschool.com “Top 100 Educational Websites” list, year after year.
Time4Learning is a great homeschool curriculum choice for in children in Preschool, Grade School, Junior High and High School. Some parents use Time4Learning as supplementary while others use it as the primary homeschooling curriculum across the country enthusiastically, teaching on the computer.
Language Arts
LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM WEBINARS
IEW CURRICULUM OVERVIEW WITH ANDREW PUDEWA - The recording is available here.
ESSENTIALS IN WRITING - The recording is available here.
SPELLING YOU SEE - The recording is available here.
ALL ABOUT LEARNING - The recording is available here.
ROYAL FIREWORKS PRESS/MICHAEL CLAY CURRICULUM - The recording is available here.
WRITE AT HOME - The recording is available here.
IEW CULTIVATING LANGUAGE ARTS: PRESCHOOL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL - The recording is available here.
LOGIC OF ENGLISH - The recording is available here.
WELL TRAINED MIND - The recording is available here.
Institute of Excellence in Writing
This page is most helpful to homeschooling parents and teachers. If you are a full-time schoolteacher or administrator, click here.
Brave Writer
Help your child fall in love with writing!
Through our user-friendly materials and award-winning online classes, you'll grow into a competent writing coach, calm your anxious writers, and nourish your aspiring authors.
Spelling You See
Like its successful sibling Math-U-See, Spelling You See has a unique approach based on what actually works. Placement is not based on grade but on the student’s level of language development. Lessons are short, and the involvement of the parent or teacher is essential. Finally, students who have used Spelling You See have stopped crying about spelling! Spelling You See is a unique spelling program that follows stages of language development and exhibits a linguistic understanding of how students learn to spell while providing meaningful context for learning spelling (no more “spelling lists”).
Website: https://spellingyousee.com
Handwriting Without Tears
From their website: Handwriting Without Tears is an award-winning curriculum that offers multisensory strategies and materials to teach pencil grip, letter formation, and the literacy skills that are needed for print and cursive handwriting.
Website: https://www.lwtears.com/hwt
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Website: https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985
Growing with Grammar
Website: https://jackrispublishing.com/collections/growing-with-grammar
Explode the Code
Essentials in Writing
Website: https://essentialsinwriting.com
Math
MATH CURRICULUM WEBINAR
RIGHTSTART MATH - The recording is available here.
MATH U SEE - The recording is available here.
TEACHING TEXTBOOKS - The recording is available here.
UNLOCK MATH - The recording is available here.
BEAST ACADEMY - The recording is available here.
MATH MAMMOTH - The recording is available here.
SINGAPORE MATH - The recording is available here.
Beast Academy
The Guide books provide comprehensive, rigorous instruction in a fully illustrated textbook written in an engaging, comic-book style.
Website: https://beastacademy.com/books
Life of Fred
You think the average person can't really ever understand math, and "Who needs it?" if you have a calculator in hand!
Think Again!!
Introducing: Life of Fred Math
Never again hear the question which many math students have: "When are we ever gonna use this stuff?" or "Math is boring!"
No other textbooks are like these. Each text is written in the style of a novel with a humorous story line. Each section tells part of the life of Fred Gauss and how, in the course of his life, he encounters the need for the math and then learns the methods. Tons of solved examples. Each hardcover textbook contains ALL of the material – more than most instructors cover in traditional classroom settings. Includes tons of proofs.
Written by Dr. Stanley Schmidt with the intent to make math come alive with lots of humour, clear explanations, and silly illustrations that stick in the mind. The student will learn to think mathematically.
Completion of this series prepares student for third year college math.
Live Online Math
Math U See
From their website: Math-U-See is designed to teach students specific skills that build as the student progresses. This systematic and cumulative approach uses a definite, logical sequence of concept instruction. The Math-U-See system is structured with step-by-step procedures for introducing, reviewing, practicing, and mastering concepts. Each lesson teaches using multi-sensory tools such as videos, manipulatives, and other resources, designed to appeal to any type of learner. With these resources, we are able to adapt to a variety of homeschool styles.
Right Start Math
Website: https://rightstartmath.com/
Placement test: https://rightstartmath.com/placement-test/
Free samples: https://rightstartmath.com/resources/sample-lessons/
Saxon Math
Singapore Math
From their website: The Singapore math method is a highly effective teaching approach originally developed by Singapore’s Ministry of Education for Singapore public schools. The method has been widely adopted in various forms around the world over the past twenty years following our introduction of the curriculum to the U.S. in 1998. Read our story here.
Teaching Textbooks
There are lots of reasons, but here are the top 3.
First, because Teaching Textbooks™ were designed specifically for independent learners, they simply have more teaching/explanation than any other product on the market. We realized that independent learners needed a product that contains the maximum amount of teaching, so a Teaching Textbook™, with its approximately 700 pages of text and 120-160 hours of teacher instruction, is both a teacher and a textbook combined into one. And the teaching isn't just abstract lectures either. There are also down-to-earth, audiovisual step-by-step explanations for every single one of the almost 3,500 problems in the book. Using a Teaching Textbook™ is like having a friendly tutor available at the push of a button, but for only a fraction of the cost! Other products claim that they can be used without the assistance of a teacher, and this may or may not be true. But shouldn’t a truly ideal product for independent learners contain step-by-step teacher explanations for all those times when you might get stumped? We think so.
Second, given the amount of teaching that the series offers and the importance of junior high and high school math in college courses and on the job, our program represents an incredible value. For example, the Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, and Pre-Calculus Teaching Textbooks™ contain far more multimedia teaching than the nearest competitors’ products.
Third, because the Teaching Textbook™ series was designed for independent learners, it introduces proper terminology only after first presenting the underlying concept in plain language. Of course, the series includes all the terms that students need to know for important standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT, but our textbooks do not bog the reader down in highly technical language until students are ready to digest it.
Science
Elemental Science
We offer easy-to-use homeschool science plans written by an author with a strong background in science and teaching. We can help you teach science at home or in school with our lapbooks, living books, full science curricula, and teacher resources.
Website: https://elementalscience.com
Pandia Press
From their website: Pandia Press offers home school science curriculum and history curriculum study guides that are organized, flexible, academic, and hands-on.
Website: https://www.pandiapress.com/
Free samples: https://www.pandiapress.com/try-before-you-buy/
Studies weekly - Science
Our embedded lesson plans and assessments foster Good Decision-Making skills because we know that standards inform (cognitive domain) and stories inspire (affective domain). Thus, intellectual intelligence and emotional intelligence are engaged. Together, these learning experiences inspire human hearts, engage minds, and profoundly impact student well being.
History
History Pockets
Website: https://www.rainbowresource.com/category/4198/History-Pockets.html
Story of the World
Website: https://welltrainedmind.com/c/history-geography/story-of-the-world/?v=7516fd43adaa
Studies Weekly
Our embedded lesson plans and assessments foster Good Decision-Making skills because we know that standards inform (cognitive domain) and stories inspire (affective domain). Thus, intellectual intelligence and emotional intelligence are engaged. Together, these learning experiences inspire human hearts, engage minds, and profoundly impact student well being.
Website: https://www.studiesweekly.com/product/social-studies/
2021-2022 Online Subscription Package
All students will receive the following subscriptions based on their grade level…
TK-5th grade
BrainPOP & BrainPOP Jr. (subscription also includes access to French and Spanish)
6th - 8th grade
9th - 12th grade
MobyMax is an adaptive curriculum that allows you to create an individualized education plan for each student. MobyMax can also be used to supplement an existing curriculum and provide additional learning opportunities and resources for your students.
BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. offer more than 1,000 short animated movies, quizzes and other related materials, covering science, social studies, English, math, engineering and technology, health, arts, music, and more!
Shmoop is a comprehensive curriculum option for high school offering a wide variety of core and elective course options.
TutorMe is an online-based, 24/7 live tutoring service that covers multiple subjects such as English, math, science, history, foreign language and more! Students will receive up to 12 hours of live, online tutoring per month. In addition, TutorMe offers a writing lab feature for those needing help with essay writing.
Additional subscriptions will be available via A LA CARTE.
Stay tuned for the new OSP Handbook links where you will be able to find additional information and answers to our frequently asked questions.