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LDS CURRICULUM

TEACHING CORRECT PRINCIPLES



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Preschool through Honors High School:
  • Religion, Academics, Life Skills in 344 Courses
  • Incremental & Success Oriented for Lasting Learning
  • Strategies which Result in High Test Scores
  • Test Results: 98 percentile in Reading, 92 in Math
  • Economic and User-Friendly
  • Leads the Child to Christ.


    • MISSION STATEMENT:

    To offer to L.D.S. homeschooling families and private schools the same curriculum, Preschool through Honors High School
  • that resulted in the Beehive Day School students earning test scores of 98 percentile in reading and 92 percentile in math;
  • that incorporates the brain integration exercises and learning strategies that made the high test scores possible;
  • that includes not only excellent academics, but also citizenship, fine arts, and health and wellness training;
  • that gives a solid foundation for advanced academic studies and overall lifelong success;
  • that nurtures individual achievement and joy in learning and the discovery of one's talents and missions;
  • that is religiously based and God-centered; builds testimony and spirituality and leads the child to Christ.

    • WHY CHOOSE BEEHIVE?

  • Beehive emphasizes walking the walk of a righteous life; forming habits of righteousness through service, study, pondering, and prayer.
  • Beehive allows students to progress at their own pace.
  • Beehive contains learning strategies and exercises throughout the curriculum which fully integrate brain function resulting in higher performance.
  • Beehive is success-oriented, giving the student incremental success experiences leading-up to considerable achievement.
  • Beehive is the only Preschool through Honors High School LDS Curriculum.
  • Beehive requires everyone to become some kind of a musician, because musicians develop a greater capacity to learn and create, and more easily synthesize and understand information.
  • Beehive incorporates LDS authors, authorities, history, and doctrine throughout the courses.
  • Beehive has nuggets of wisdom and insights not found elsewhere.
  • Finally, Beehive teaches the student to actively seek and incorporate the help of the members of the Godhead in his studies; to truly learn "by study and by faith".

    • LEVELS, SUBJECTS, FORMAT:

    1. SIXTEEN LEVELS:
      1. Preschool
      2. Kindergarten
      3. First through 12th Grades
      4. Two years of Honors High School Courses equivalent to lower level college courses.

    2. SUBJECTS
      1. Preschool: Stories of Jesus, Readiness, Reading, Writing, Numbers, History-Science, Art-Music-Movement, Life Skills & Service
      2. Kindergarten: Book of Mormon Stories, Readiness, Reading, Writing, Numbers, History-Science, Art-Music-Movement, Life Skills & Service
      3. First Grade through Honors High School - 14 Levels or Grades for each of the following:
        1. Arts
        2. Book of Mormon
        3. Business, Economics, and Financial Management
        4. Communications
        5. Geography
        6. Government
        7. History
        8. Human Biology and Wellness
        9. Independent Studies
        10. Latin
        11. Life Skills
        12. Math
        13. Music
        14. Personal and Family History and Studies
        15. Physical Fitness, Dance, and Sports
        16. Practical Arts
        17. Religion
        18. Science
        19. Service
        20. Spanish
        21. Test Prep
        22. Theater
        23. Vocabulary

    3. COURSE FORMAT - Most Courses
      1. Introductory with Scope, Objectives, Materials List, and Course and Lessons Formats.
      2. MOST have lessons in twelve - 15 Lesson packets; some have all their lessons included in the Introductory; a few have 180/181 individual lessons.
      3. Normally 180 actual lessons per course.
      4. FINAL ASSESSMENT and Certificate of Completion appears in lesson 180.
      5. In most cases an 85% correct score is required to pass the course final. some courses require 100%.

    4. LESSON FORMAT
      1. Begin with reviews of previous day's or weeks work.
      2. Short, concise, to-the-point lessons. Studies show 25 minutes per lesson is the optimum time allotment.
      3. Use of Bloom's hierarchy of learning skills to increase application of what is learned.
      4. Application of the lesson to real life as well as gospel principles.
      5. Fun projects or activites to emphasis concepts and practice skills.
      6. Weekly and Periodic reviews and assessments.

    THE ROUTINE: HOW IT WORKS

    1. The parent or teacher enrolls the student, homeschool or private school, by paying the yearly subscription and choosing a password to access the curriculum.
    2. EACH STUDENT BEGINS AT THE LOWEST LEVEL - PRESCHOOL - TO INSURE THAT HE or SHE RECEIVES THE FULL BENEFIT and KNOWLEDGE GIVEN in the BEEHIVE CURRICULUM.
    3. If the student is YOUNGER - he or she should just begin at the preschool level and progress as he is able.
    4. If the student is OLDER -
      1. The parent prints off the first packet of fifteen lesseons and the student peruses them to pick-up any fact or concept he does not know.
      2. This routine is continued through the other eleven packets of the course.
      3. When he feels ready and confident, the student then takes the assessment.
      4. Any assessment that the student passes with an 85% correct score, he should consider passed-off.
      5. However, for any missed questions, he should access the lesson numbers given by the missed questions; study those lessons and then retake the missed portions of the final assessment. To pass-off the missed portions, he must receive a 100% correct score.
      6. When he has passed-off a level of a subject satisfactorily, then he progresses to the next level of that subject.
      7. He continues reviewing the lessons and taking the assessments at higher levels until he reaches a point where his initial score on an assessment is 60% or less. At this point, he should study, not just peruse, all the lessons for that subject at that level.
          8. For example: Lou takes the reading assessment at the preschool level and passes it off with 96%. She looks-up the lessons for the questions she missed and learns the material. Then she passes-off the missed questions at 100%. She continues through the kindergarten level of reading, getting a 90%. Again, she accesses the lessons that cover the answers to the questions she missed and retakes the missed questions, scoring 100%. Next, she works her way through Levels 1, 2, and 3, but recieves a score of 59% on the Level 4 Communications course final assessment. This means that she does all of the work for the Level 4 lessons. Her working level is Level 4.

    COURSE AVAILABILITY

    1. The List of Available Courses or COURSES ONLINE is printed weekly in THE BUZZ NEWSLetter which can be accessed through the subscription portal.
    2. If you wish to receive the NEWSLetter, but not subscribe, send an email to us through our contact page.

    LEVEL AVAILABILITY:
    1. The PRESCHOOL and KINDERGARTEN LEVELS, and all levels of BOOK of MORMON, and RELIGION courses (62 in all) are all slated to be online by the end of February, 2012.
    2. The other two PRIMARY LEVELS, Levels 1-2, all courses (44 in all) will follow rapidly thereafter.
        3. The above four levels will give ample subject matter to start filling-in any 'potholes'.
    3. The ELEMENTARY LEVELS, 3 - 6, will then be added by subject.
    4. The INTERMEDIATE LEVELS, 7 - 10, will be added beginning in the fall, 2012.
    5. The ADVANCED LEVELS - 11 - 14, will be added in 2013.

    COSTS

    1. Subscription: $125.00 a year per family, school, or individual. Allows full access to curriculum PDFs. Allows 200 downloads a week.
    2. Course Materials - Subscriptions to The Friend or The New Era and various books or CDs or DVDs as mentioned throughout the curricula. NOTE: Additional expense is kept to the minimum. As many resources as possible are included within the curriculum.
    3. Supplies: paper, pencils, pens, erasers, computer and copy paper, printer and ink, crayons, colored pencils, clay, journals, white and colored lined and plain index cards, rubber bands, three-ring binders, etc.

    SIGN-UP - See ONLINE CURRICULUM PAGE


    OUR GUARANTEE

      If you change your mind or are not satisfied with the courses for any reason, let us know within ten days of signing-up and we will refund 90% of your subscription. Sorry, we must retain 10% to cover processing fees charged to us.

    TESTIMONIALS

      "The Online Curriculum is exceptional. I'm recommending it to all my friends and family." Online Subscriber

      "Here they teach faith, not humanism. The religion courses are of exceptional quality." Parent

      "I switched to Beehive because they use LDS authors and sources in their curriculum." Parent

      "There is so much to learn. I just love all the information. Thank you, very much." Parent



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