ALH - Aquinas Learning at HOME

(If you plan to join a center, please click on REGISTER > Center Name above)

How do we register?

Click here to purchase ALH (Aquinas Learning at Home) registration.

Have questions? Watch this video to learn the step-by-step registration process.

How much does it cost?

The total cost will vary greatly from one family to another. But registration costs $185 for Parva, $250 for Prima I, $250 for Prima II, and $75 per Alta Course (both IHP and STEM). Please note: the registration fee is charged per family, not per student. Welcome, large families!

The registration fee does not include the cost of materials, although many of our core materials are freely available in a digital format to member families via our course site.

PARVA REGISTRATION (PK-K): $185/level/family

PRIMA I REGISTRATION (1st-3rd): $250/level/family

PRIMA II REGISTRATION (4th-6th): $250/level/family

ALTA REGISTRATION (7th-12th): $75/course/family

Parva - Prima II - includes - Catechism, History, Science, Fine Arts & Music, Timeline, Geography, Latin/Greek, Literature (Good Books), Penmanship, Oral Presentation, Composition/Grammar, Vocabulary, Saints, Virtues, Math recommendations (Math-U-See, Math Mammoth, Singapore Math).

Schola Alta (7-12th) - pick from a list of courses being offered that year.

INTERESTED IN JOINING A CENTER?

Did you want to ENROLL in a center (live in-person or live online at the ALVC)? Go to “Register” and scroll down the various center options to which you can enroll. Enrollment into a center is an additional cost and it depends on which center you wish to join. Each center is individually owned and operated, except for the ALVC, which is owned and operated by Aquinas Learning Headquarters.

See SAMPLES of the Course Site & AL Materials

Aquinas Learning Materials
Each Parva and Prima student may also purchase a workbook. (Lulu.com link coming soon!)

Families may also purchase one curriculum packet per level (Parva and/or Prima, which has the information for both Prima I & II), CDs of the memory songs and timeline song (MP3s coming this spring), timeline pages, a geography workbook, and a time trek sticker notebook.

Additional Texts & Materials
Most of our curriculum does not rely on textbooks (except in Schola Alta), but there are additional non-Aquinas Learning materials that you’ll need: good books for the literature component, optional supplementary materials for your home library (to learn/read more about it), and the Catechism and Composition texts that are purchased from outside vendors as well.

What does it include?

The Aquinas Learning REGISTRATION includes access to the course via a Moodle course site, downloadable parent guide, course description/syllabi, weekly assignments, resources (quizzes, tests, URL links, etc.), and membership privileges (addition to email loops, Facebook Private Group Page, member discounts, curriculum updates, quarterly newsletter: AL Journal, contests, access to free webinars, being part of the AL Family Community!)

What does ALH mean?

ALH simply means “Aquinas Learning at Home” - for a family that is going to register to the Aquinas Learning Program and use it independently of a Center. All you have to do is REGISTER. Purchase books and materials on the website and through the Book List links. Get started once the Course Site access codes, Welcome Packet, books, and materials arrive.

Benefits of using the program as an ALH family is full flexibility. The downside is full flexibility and no accountability to a group to stay on track.

Another big benefit is the low cost of the Aquinas Learning Registration. There’s no need to pay a Center’s Tuition and Enrollment fees.

Although you’re not joining a center - you are still part of the AQUINAS LEARNING COMMUNITY at large via social media, events, group discounts, resource sharing folder, etc.

Sample Schedule: You will develop your own schedule as you embark on your family’s homeschool journey.

WEEKLY PLANNING

Create a weekly routine for your family. We give suggested ways to plan a routine for the week in our Parent Curriculum Guide:

1. Daily morning routine – whatever the family does before starting school

2. Morning Basket/Meeting - ring a bell that signals gathering time. Read-aloud, Poetry Memorization, Family Meeting, Announcements, etc.

3. Individual Skills Subjects: Start with subjects that each student works on independently: Math, Phonics, Reading, Composition (IEW or other writing projects), Research (prepare for Oral presentations), Narration of stories, Dictation exercises for copywork. (Fine Arts application of skills or Scientific skills can be done during “Focus Subject Period”)

4. Family Subjects - Ideas/Facts - These are the subjects you would do together as a family where the ideas are discussed and facts are being passed down: Catechism, History, Science Knowledge, Civics. Listening to the Memory Sentences during lunch period, all together. Philosophy topic can perhaps be discussed at dinner time.

5. Daily Focus Subjects – Any subject that you decide will be the focus for that day of the week - ex: Mondays - Catechism & Latin; Tuesdays - History, Civics, & Geography; Wednesdays - Science topic and nature walks…etc. Those are the days on which you will focus on certain subjects, concepts, and themes.

6. Extra Curriculars -be careful not to overdo this. The dinner table and the conversations started there are probably the most important interactions between family members.

7. Family Rosary / Prayer Time - this is up to the family to schedule during the week as they’re able. Remember that you’re helping them build habits.

8. Evening Routine - have a routine to cap off the day. Make sure it includes some form of thanksgiving, an act of contrition, and the act of blessing your children before they go to bed (fathers primarily, but moms too can make the sign of the cross on the children’s forehead).

Aquinas Learning is a flexible HOMESCHOOL program.  Anyone who has tried to follow a 5-day curriculum in a box knows how often you end up changing the original plan for the week to accommodate changes in your schedule or the pace at which your child is learning the material.

For elementary students, there are certain subjects that should be done frequently (4-5 days per week) like Math and Language Arts. There are other subjects that can be done once a week, like Science, Art, History…etc.

We provide families with a suggested plan for the week, which can also be adjusted to fit your family’s needs.

DAILY STUDY COMPONENTS

Discussing ideas together as a family – joining the Great Conversation over the centuries on what makes a society thrive, on what makes a business ethical, on what makes a good community, on what makes a fruitful and loving family, on what makes a human a saint.

Learning Facts together as a family – not just any facts or as many facts you can fit in a semester, but what is worthy of passing down. Facts that embody the ideas discussed.

Practicing Skills individually at their age-appropriate level –  reading, writing, thinking, speaking, listening, debating, discussing, remembering, and BEHOLDING.  If we don’t teach our kids to pay attention it will lead to further attention deficits.  “Behold the Lamb of God!”  We want to teach them to stop and gaze, to behold things that are worthy of beholding.

Click here to register for the Aquinas Learning Program at Home