BEEHIVE ONLINE is a Gospel-Enriched Classic American Education for Preschool through AP High School level.
Classic American Education is defined as that education which is founded upon the principles of conduct and character found in the
Bible. This form of education lead to the most literate society on the face of the earth and simultaneously the most free and prosperous.
As Latter-day Saints we also include the principles revealed through the Prophet, Joseph Smith, succeeding latter-day prophets
and latter-day Scriptures.
Classical American Education had three distinct characteristics which promulgated its greatness: 1) the building of Christian character;
2) first learning to read so as be able to read the Bible and then the studying other subjects and 3) the Puritan work ethic as
applied to the acquisition of knowledge.
We believe that each student is an individual with an his own purposes and missions in life. Therefore, no
one type of education fits all. However, there is a need for a return to classic American education which gives everyone a commonality
of basic knowledge, which builds character, intellect, and humanity, and through which we can understand one another,
and by which we learn where our interests, talents, and missions lie.
In consequence, Beehive education begins with an emphasis on learning to read, to write, and to understand the scriptures.
It progressess from there into the various disciplines: of literature, mathematics, science, social sciences, and the arts, culminating in
the equivalent of an excellent and advanced level high school education.
Each of the five subject areas: religion, language arts, math, social sciences and sciences, has ten levels with 140-160 lessons per subject per level.
Levels do NOT correspond to grade levels, but to levels of subject and concept mastery.
Reference is often made to Gospel principles and their application to the lesson and everyday life.
COST is $99.99 for a full access annual subscription. NOTE: Downloading of
lessons is limited to 25 a day or 100 a week. If more lessons than these are
required in a week's time, we request that you purchase a second annual subscription.
BEEHIVE ONLINE CURRICULUM - Overview by Levels
Note: The earliest ages that levels could be completed are listed. To find out the oldest a child could be on a particular level to finish
the full curriculum add three years to the age given. In two cases: math and science, levels below Level 10 satisfy the high school graduation requirement.
RELIGION LEVELS
1 - Begin at age 4 or 5. The child learns the Scripture stories, as well as the skills of careful listening and recitation by listening to the Scripture
stories and then recalling and reciting what they are about.
2 - Age 6. The child advances his reading skills by reading the Scripture stories. He also learns spelling and vocabulary of religious
significance as well as people and places, dates and timelines.
3 - Age 7. The child reads selected scipture stories from the actual texts. He also continue work on learning vocabulary, spelling, and significance of people, places,
dates and timelines.
4 - Age 8. The child begins a thorough overview of the Book of Mormon - people, places, history, doctrines, themes, Scripture masteries. I Nephi 1 through Alma 30.
5 - Age 9. The child continues the thorough reading of the Book of Mormon. Alma 31 - Moroni 10.
6 - Age 10. The child reads and studies in-depth the Five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and III Nephi.
7 - Age 11. Here the child begins what we hope will become a lifelong habit: reading through all Standard Works annually.
Here he reads through the Standard Works within a year's time with adjunct journaling on insights, vocabulary, etc. and does family
history work on himself & his immediate family.
8 - Age 12. The young man or young woman reads through the Standard works a second time, thematically, along with family history work on
past generations, gathering information, plus doing family history temple-ready research.
9 - Age 13. The young person reads through the Standard Works a third time, chronologically, comparing events to known history. Also, there are
Missionary Prep lessons and scripture memorization from Preach My Gospel.
7 - Age 14. The young person again reads through the Standard Works and completes the year's Seminary lessons.
ENGLISH LEVELS
1 - Age 5. Phonics - 70+ sounds, reading, writing, spelling, grammar, sentence structure and beginning literature, beginning study
skills.
2 - Age 6. Review of Level One plus advanced work in each area, especially creative writing and literature, study skills.
3 - Age 7. Hone reading skills, reading more advanced texts, also spelling, grammar, and puctuation rules.
4 - Age 8. Master reading and vocabulary. (A modern prophet said that if you wish to master a language, read the
Book of Mormon in that language. This is the level at which children do that. See Religion - Level Four.) Work on report and essay writing, classic
literature and beginning speech, honing of study skills.
5 - Age 9. Mechanics mastery, literary classics, literary analysis, report and essay writing, speech, study skills review.
6 - Age 10. Grammar mastery, biography, report and research writing, literary classics and analysis, study skills review.
7 - Age 11. Complete review plus biography, literary classics and analysis, research, and speech, study skills review.
8 - Age 12. Read, discuss, and write about ancient and modern literary classics; also journalism and debate, study skills review.
9 - Age 13. Read, discuss, and write about American literary classics; also journalism and debate, study skills review.
10 - Age 14. Read, discuss. and write about great LDS books and other great books; also journalism and debate, study skills review.
MATH LEVELS
1 - Age 5. Numbers, graphs, place value, skip counting, jargon, addition and subtraction facts and process mastery, money,
time, fractions, geometry, measurements, quantitative processing of up to 5 digits.
2 - Age 6. Review plus number words, calendar, comparison symbols, prime, composite, squares and roots, expanded form,
multiplication mastery, functions, beginning consumer math - tithing, budgeting and shopping, quantitative processing of up to 7 digits.
3 - Age 7. Review plus higher levels of above and division mastery, decimals, percents, integers, statistics, probability
and problem solving, beginning consumer math - discounts, sales, credit, quantitative processing of up to nine digits.
4 - Age 8. Honing of above skills plus powers, order of operations, inverse operations, estimation, number theory, number sets and
systems, metrics, intermediate consumer math - household expenses, continued work on quantitative processing.
5 - Age 9. ALGEBRA, patterns, geometry, sequences, concepts, proceedures, equations, inequalities, functions, graphing, intermediate
consumer math - the laws of saving, continued work on quantitative processing.
6 - Age 10. Geometry and algebra honing and review with work in logic, probability, statistics, problem solving, and advanced
consumer math - review of previous, plus insurance and investments, continued work on quantitative processing.
7 - Age 11. Algebra II, review and advanced concepts of foregoing, plus complex numbers, trigonometry, measurement conversions, plus
basic business math, continued quantitative processing.
8 - Age 12. Advanced mathematics: Pre-calculus and intermediate business math, continued quantitative processing. (This level satisfies the High
School graduation requirement.)
9 - Age 13. Advanced mathematics: Calculus and advanced business math, continued quantitative processing.
10 - Age 14. Economics and Business Calculus, continued quantitative processing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE - HISTORY LEVELS
1 - Age 5. Basic geography; epochs of world and US History; family, city, and state geography and history; basic music and art.
Personal history.
2 - Age 6. Government, geography and history: Own, family, city, state, US, world, plus music and art.
3 - Age 7. Geography, history and government of the Western Hemisphere, plus music and art. Coordinated with Religion Level 3. One year
mainly Latin areas; one year Canada and the US. Personal history. Career exploration I.
4 - Age 8. Geography, history and government of the Eastern Hemisphere, music and art. Personal history.
5 - Age 9. United States and church history, plus countries of origin, art & music - coordinated with English biography studies and
reports. Personal history.
6 - Age 10. Studies of government at all levels - including self and family; origin of founding documents and active civics. Personal
history. Career exploration II.
7 - Age 11. Ancient World & Church history from the Council in Heaven through to the Printing Press. Personal history. Career exploration.
8 - Age 12. Modern world and church history from the Reformation through to today. Personal history. Career exploration.
9 - Age 13. US & Church history; manifest destiny of each; ancestral and personal roles; where from here? Personal history.
Career exploration.
10 - Age 14. Science of Family and Government; BYU Studies on the Family; 5,000 Year Leap; The Making of America; The Majesty of
God's Law. Personal history. Career exploration.
SCIENCE LEVELS
1 - Age 5. Plants, animals, human body, health, weather, astronomy, seasons, earth, simple machines, matter. Beginning Brain
Gym and PE.
2 - Age 6. Exploration of the timeline of science with relevant experiments & concentration on the laws of health. Introduction
to organic gardening and food prep. Brain Gym and PE.
3 - Age 7. In-depth overview of Life and Earth sciences & review of the laws of Human Health. Continued organic gardening and food prep.
Brain Gym and PE.
4 - Age 8. In-depth overview of Chemistry and Physics with applications to earth science and health. Continued organic gardening, food
prep, Brain Gym and PE.
5 - Age 9. Biology: definition, branches, classification, cells, genetics, kingdoms, habitats, ecosystems, ecology and health.
Continued organic gardening and live food prep, Brain Gym and PE.
6 - Age 10. Chemistry and the Cosmos: matter and atomic structure, definitions, elements, reactions, materials, etc,
the universe - planet earth, solar system, stars, constellations, galxies, etc., health and continued organic gardening, live food prep, Brain Gym and PE.
7 - Age 11. Physics: machines, light, sound, energy, electricity and magnetism, forces and human health with continued organic gardening
and live food prep, Brain Gym and PE.THis level satisfies the high school graduation requirements.)
8 - Age 12. Human Biology: Anatomy and Physiology in all systems and Human Health with continued organic gardening and live food prep,
Brain Gym and PE.
9 - Age 13. Advanced Chemistry: stoichiometry, acids, redox, orbitals, muclear forces, solutions, equalibra, organic + at advanced
levels with continued health, organic gardeing, live food prep, Brain Gym and PE.
10 - Age 14. Advanced Physics: relativity, kinematics, waves, dynamics, thermal, optics, oscillations, gravity, nuclear+ at higher
levels, plus continued organic gardening, live food prep, health, Brain Gym and PE.
HOLES
For the most part, the above curriculum satisfies most of what the Lord, in the Doctrine and Covenants, has asked us to learn. However, there is one gaping
hole: foreign languages. We highly recommend the Rosetta Stone system - either CD's at home or the online version. Through the years, this has proven to be
the program through which our students have had the greatest success.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN we ask that you download and read the Beehive PARENTS' GUIDE to
STUDENT SUCCESS. This will help you greatly in establishing a successful home school, distance learning experience.
(Until the link is up, we have placed portions of the GUIDE after the Students with Microscopes picture.)
At Beehive we endeavor to follow President Henry B. Eyring's counsel:
“It is clear that our first priority should go to spiritual learning.
... It is clear that putting spiritual learning first does not relieve us from
learning secular things. On the contrary, it gives our secular
learning purpose and motivates us to work harder at it.”
Parents and how children think their parents see them, are vital to a child's self-worth and is reflective of how they think their Heavenly Father sees
them! Kind, loving, soft-spoken, but firm parents give children a good idea of who their Heavenly Father is and how He sees them. Parents who are gruff,
lose their tempers, severly chastise their children, etc. are giving them a false impression of their heavenly parents - which can be very damaging to the child's
building a meaningful relationship with Diety.
Friends - PARENTS BE WARE!!! As your child matures friends become MORE IMPORTANT than you in the ability to influence your child's behavior. That is
why is it sooooo veeeery important for you to MONITOR your child's friends. Open your home to them. Insist on parties at your house - of course share this with
other parents, TALK with other parents. You MUST know who your child's friends are and help them end their friendships with those who could be damaging to their
eternal salvation. Friends who hang-out together will grow together either into activity, missions and temple marriages or out of activity, missions and temple
marriages. Help your child choose his friends WISELY.
Relationship with Diety - Your child must establish an ongoing relationship with his Heavenly Father and with the Holy Ghost. This is vital. He/she
will not weather the coming storms without this. He must have a testimony and he must know and recognize and follow the promptings when they come.
Encourage your child in this endeavor. To be able to speak with our Father through prayer and hear his reply is priceless and worth more than all the other
education he will ever receive. Encourage individual study andprayer and encourage your child to be patient and wait and listen for the answers. They
will come.
To everything there is a time and a season. That includes the bodily processes of eating, digesting, repair and elimination. Each of these stages is
approximately eight hours
in duration. If one follows the cycle, one has vastly more energy - and more mental clarity. For example, - the average intake time starts about 8 to
10 AM and lasts to 4 to 6 PM. Eating before or after this taxes the system as the system wants to concentrate on digestion or repair and elimination of
waste. Eating during the other sixteen hours of the day interrupts each of the other two stages, leaving semi-digested food, semi-repair and
semi-elimination all of which can result in a sluggish, low-energy, toxin ridden system. Best case scenario: In the early AM - before 10 - drink lemon
water and eat fruit - FRESH fruit. This taxes the system the least. Eat your regular meals from 10 AM to 6 PM. Drink only water after 6 PM and if
insatiably hungry - eat only FRESH fruit. This allows your system to have eight hours of intake, eight hours of digestion and eight hours of repair and
waste management and toxin elimination. Try it. Those who have tried it have found an unexpected but welcomed side effect - weight regulation.
Our world is beset by multiple pollutants, not the least of which is the new "electro-pollution". This has been around for a while, especially with the
popularization of the use of microwaves. (Incidentally, sorry, but the food nuked in a microwave is useless to the body and actually acts as a toxin!)
Electro-pollution of greatest concern to us - other than the microwave - are the cell phone and cell transmission towers. None of us can escape the effect.
Study after study is coming to light about the ill-effects of cell phones, especially on children. Unprotected, the waves invade deep into the brain, the
deeper the younger and less thick the skull. Brain cancer is the result - incurable and deadly. More information is forthcoming on this, but for the
moment - 1) have your student hold the phone an inch or more away from the ear to vastly lessen the damage. 2) Don't let him talk for long amounts of time
- use your land line instead; 3) Exposure actually scrambles the brain and takes one to two hours to recover from a few minute call! This has devastating
effects on concentration and school work! 4) Get a cell chip that helps protect your student. 5) Do not let him or her store the phone in pants pockets
as the radiation from the cell phones adversely affects human reproductive organs. Store in purse or backpack.
Sleep, exercise and cleanliness are cardinal healthy habits. According to the scriptures, the Lord has said: (D&C 88:124) "...retire to thy bed early, that
ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be invigorated." Interestingly, science is in the process of proving how good this advice
is. Sleep before midnight is much more beneficial and worthwhile that sleep after midnight. Arising early - defined as before the sun
- envigorates a person physically and mentally. Comment: For years I was asked how did I get so much done? I didn't know. How did I get so much done?
I seemed to be able to do two to three times the work of others. Then one day I realized: I obeyed the foregoing wisdom. Often I had a regular day's
work done before others were up!
Exercise is also vitally important - it keeps things moving, especially your lymph system. The lymph system is responsible - along with others to rid the body
of toxins. A sluggish lymph system will wear you down and cause all sorts of difficulties. Walking and jumping on the tramp are two excellent ways to
clean-out and invigorate. Jumping on the tramp, in particular, strengthens every cell in the body. So, if you are looking for a simple, easy, all
body work-out - jump 30 minutes a day on a min-tramp; then do weight-lifting three days a week and walking three days a week and you've got it covered!
Cleanliness we have talked about on the inside - helping the body eliminate properly by observing the three - eight hours of the ingesting-digesting-
repair-and-elimnation cycle and jumping on the tramp to activate the lymph system. Adequare intake of water is also important to proper elimination of
internal waste - as itis to outside elimnation of external waste. Daily bathing, especially with a medium rough brushing - keeps the body outwardly
healthy and glowing.
"Oh, I wish I had studied." To paraphrase Brigham Young, the road to "F's" is paved with procrastination and disorganization; to "A's" - according to
President Kimball by "Doing it, - NOW." So it is with good study habits. 1) Don't procrastinate. Give yourself plenty of time to accomplish the assignments.
2) Use a system - so that you are organized (like our Heavenly Father) and don't have to spend an inordinate amount of your time in searching for your paper
or notes. 3) The best system we have found is pocket folders for your current work and a file drawer with appropriate file folders for your past work.
4) Review is the mother of learning. Therefore, rewrite your notes, concepts, math facts, whatever, in an easily reviewable format - either quiz sheets or
in the BEEHIVE BRAIN BOX SYSTEM. These are fully explained in the curriculum and explained to the youngest students so that they can begin their learning
career with correct study habits.
"Same Time - Same Place" is a good rule to follow. Set a routine. Publish it. Let others know when you are working and would prefer NOT to be disturbed -
unless it is an emergency. Also, ALWAYS INCLUDE YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER in your studies. THANK Him for the opportunity to learn, for you ability to learn
and ASK Him for His help that you may understand and grasp and make your own what you are being taught. Comment: A few years after starting our school it
became apparent that students we had - who had problems with learning and shouldn't have been able to succeed in taking their GED and other tests -
were succeeding
beyond any reasonable expectations. WHY? After months of contemplation and review of our program, we came to the only conclusion we could: It was because we
had taught our students to seek the help of their Heavenly Father! I remember clearly the comment of one young man, the son of a seminary teacher, who said,
"I never thought that Heavenly Father would be interested in my school work or that He would help me. But, now I know He is and He does." Sometimes, we
forget the simplest things!
