Explore the Horizons Experience for Students & Parents
Horizons Student Experience Grades K‑3
Horizons Student Experience Preschool
Horizons Parent Experience Grades K‑12
Horizons Math Student Experience Grades PreK‑8
Horizons Electives Student Experience Grades PreK‑12
core and elective courses available
Why Choose Horizons?
- Spiral-based design for all learning styles
- Parent-led for active homeschool teachers
- Bible-based K-8 health curriculum
- Award-winning K-8 math curriculum
- K-3 phonics for dyslexia, unique learning needs
- Early learning with preschool and K-12 PE electives


Personalized Purchase Options
Complete Grade Sets
Pre K-3 complete sets make early learning easy for parents and fun for students.
Single Subject Sets
Focus on single subjects like spelling, penmanship and health for your students.


Health Grades K‑8
Teach your K-8 child about healthy eating, first aid, human anatomy, and Christian living with Horizons Health curriculum! Bible-based and age appropriate, lessons in Horizons Health cover the eleven major themes such as:
- Growth and development
- Substance use and abuse
- Nutrition and health
- Emotional and mental health
- Safety and first aid
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Math Grades K‑8
Making it our most popular curriculum, the spiral learning design of Horizons Math lessons includes sequential cycles of review along with new learning so your child fully masters all concepts. Focused on foundational math skills, Horizons Math K-6 presents lessons on topics such as:
- Counting
- Adding and subtracting
- Time and calendar concepts
- Measurements
- Money
- And more!
Designed to prepare students for advanced mathematics, Horizons Pre-Algebra and Algebra I present lessons on topics such as:
- Introductory algebra, trigonometry, and geometry
- Exponents and powers
- Radical expressions
- Factoring trinomials
- And more!
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Penmanship Grades 1‑6
Give your child the gift of beautiful handwriting with Horizons Penmanship! Scripture-based with beautiful, reproducible practice pages, students learn proper manuscript and cursive writing, including hand, posture, and pen techniques, by writing:
- Quotes and poems
- Scriptures and bible stories
- Lesson vocabulary
- Proverbs and fables
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Phonics & Reading Grades K‑3
In Horizons Phonics & Reading, young readers learn about spelling, alphabetizing, rhyming, sentence structure and more through the curriculum’s time-tested phonics-based word recognition and early reading program. Including phonic-based readers, this curriculum covers the major themes of:
- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics and fluency
- Vocabulary and spelling
- Text comprehension
- Penmanship
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Spelling & Vocab Grades 1‑3
Equip your child with effective spelling strategies and a robust vocabulary with Horizons Spelling & Vocabulary curriculum! This phonics-based, Christian curriculum includes daily writing and fun, creative spelling and vocab activities that can be combined with your child’s other school subjects to make cross-curricular connections. In Horizons Spelling & Vocabulary, your child will:
- Learn phonetic spelling rules
- Practice creative writing
- Engage with weekly vocabulary words
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Physical Education Grades Pre‑K‑12
Horizons Physical Education is a dynamic curriculum filled with learning exercise techniques, important fitness skills, and healthy living habits taught from a Christian perspective. Taught only with teacher’s guides, this complete curriculum includes detailed lesson plans, lesson objectives and goals,engaging student activities, and extended learning resources on:
- Games and sports
- Developing motor skills
- Teamwork
- Health, fitness, and development
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Frequently Asked Questions
Horizons is a parent-led curriculum with daily instruction included in detailed teacher guides with students completing corresponding workbook activities. Lessons are designed for daily engagement, typically covering one lesson per subject each day for pacing of a typical 9-month school year.
The structured, spiral approach of Horizons benefits many learners, including gifted students who thrive on advanced content and review. Horizons lessons are not specifically designed for students with dyslexia, but the early literacy curriculum follows a phonics-based format that many students respond well to. Additional resources or accommodations may be necessary to fully support students with dyslexia.
With spiral learning, students learn a concept, then the concept is repeatedly revisited as new, related concepts or skills are introduced. Horizons incorporates this effective learning style in all subjects, but particularly within math and language arts learning. Where mastery-based learning focuses on one concept at a time until it is mastered, spiral-based learning focuses on multiple concepts that build upon one another.
Horizons’ scope and sequence guides can help determine the appropriate starting point as well as sample lessons that are available for every subject and grade. Additionally, Horizons has math, pre-algebra, and algebra I readiness evaluations that may be used for math readiness.
AOP also offers a kindergarten readiness assessment to help parents assess their child’s readiness for kindergarten math and language arts.
Horizons curriculum's spiral, parent-led teaching style is ideal for younger students through elementary school for most subjects and even more advanced for math, which goes through 8th grade (Algebra I).
Horizons' can prepare students to transition to more independent learning with LIFEPAC or Monarch which both offer all core subjects plus electives through 12th grade.
Horizons requires active parental involvement. Parents deliver daily lessons using teacher’s guides and assess student work with provided answer keys, ensuring comprehension and progress.
Horizons is a spiral, parent-led curriculum with vibrant materials that emphasizes review and reinforcement. The curriculum is primarily for grades PreK–8, focusing on early literacy and numeracy. Horizons curriculum offerings include preschool for 3 and 4, K-8 math, K-3 phonics & reading, grades 1-3 spelling & vocabulary, grades 11-6 penmanship, K-6 health, and PreK-12 PE.
Alternatively, LIFEPAC is a mastery-based, student-paced curriculum for grades K–12, promoting independent learning with structured units. LIFEPAC curriculum includes core subjects of math, language arts, history & geography, science, and Bible as well as 20 electives.
Yes, Horizons can be used with multiple children, though each will need their own set of student workbooks. Parents may need to allocate time for individual instruction, as the curriculum is teacher-led.


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