Pre-grammar — Fun and Play-filled stage.
Students focus on virtue and gain the developmental skills needed to succeed in the grammar classroom. ABC’s and 123’s while keeping them unified with the family through an introduction to Catholic Schoolhouse Memory Work.
Grammar–Knowledge and skill building stage.
During our core Catholic Schoolhouse Program, students focus on memorization, giving them the foundation for success in their future studies. Virtue and Catholicism is woven into everything we do. Learn more our homeschooling programs Catholic Schoolhouse Planning for the Grammar Student.
Dialectic–Logic or understanding stage.
Students begin to contradict, even argue. Has your sweet child suddenly gotten sassy? No! How they process information has been changed by God our creator. At Catholic Schoolhouse, we move away from memory and toward analysis in approximately middle school, encouraging them to direct this new, beautiful, necessarily analytical brain to process information in a respectful way as they discover truth. Learn more our homeschooling programs Catholic Schoolhouse Planning for the Dialectic Student.
Rhetoric–Wisdom stage.
The next stage changes their brain yet again, now going beyond analysis to synthesis–creating their own convincing arguments and reasons. Catholic Schoolhouse focus becomes communication. Knowing all the knowledge in the world is for nothing if they can’t effectively communicate to use that knowledge to change the world. We are guiding students to become Catholic adults.