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Treehouse Schoolhouse is a Christian shop of family guides that a parent leads. Your child gets a full curriculum from us: every subject starting at their own level, with lessons that explain each idea and work graded as they go.
Family guides or a full curriculum
Treehouse Schoolhouse is a Christian homeschool blog and shop selling parent-led resources. It sells printable and printed guides for nature study, book studies, Bible, Morning Time, and planning, built around seasonal rhythms, living books, and family connection. Its Treehouse Nature Study is a guide in the Charlotte Mason style.
Our curriculum gives your child a full course of lessons in every subject they study.
Where your child starts
A family picks the band that fits from Treehouse's Early Years (prekindergarten and Kindergarten), Primary Years (Kindergarten to Grade 3), and Intermediate Years (Grades 4 to 8).
To start your child where they actually are, we write a placement test for each subject. It has 25 questions, or 12 for younger learners, and it adapts as your child answers.
From every answer, we estimate where your child is solid but not yet finished, and that's where they start. Each subject is placed on its own, so your child might begin in the middle of fourth-grade math and the beginning of fifth-grade reading. In grades 3 to 12, a child who prefers paper can print the free placement test, then upload a photo of the answer sheet for grading.
What a school day looks like
A Treehouse day is parent-led and family-style: the parent opens the guide with little preparation and leads activities such as the week's nature study, poem, folk song, and artwork.
Our Parent Dashboard lays out today's lessons by subject. You can build the week around your family's hours and print it for the fridge.
Interactive articles weave in your child's interests, with images and videos made for them. Reading checks confirm understanding, then your child applies the idea in a project, such as optimizing lap times for F1 or working out a rocket’s fuel load.
When your child gets stuck
Treehouse's guides are written for a parent to lead with the family. A child's questions go to that parent, who takes the conversation beyond the readings and activities in the guide.
Our Always-On Mentor sits beside every reading and project, so help is there the moment your child needs it.
The mentor also steps in on its own when your child seems stuck, explains the idea another way, and can make it visual by drawing on its board. In a reading check or a project, it guides your child's thinking without giving the answer away.
Learning to keep a notebook
From Grade 3, our readings offer an optional Notebook guide to help your child organize their learning. It encourages lesson headings and unit labels, and the printable guide offers tips for taking notes in their own words rather than copying the article.
The guide encourages your child to note where they struggled and how they got past it. One tip is to star a useful takeaway, then gather those takeaways into a review page. When your child scans and uploads their notebook pages, we help them remember those ideas and shape practice problems around the places they struggled.
Who grades the work
Treehouse's family guides leave the parent leading the activities. Checking the child's work stays with that parent as well, rather than being a marking service attached to each submitted assignment.
We grade everything your child submits as soon as they submit it, so grading never lands on you. When your child gets something wrong, we help them work through it, and projects come back with feedback so they can revise them.
Records, state paperwork, and the transcript
At TheHomeschoolingCompany, your child's school record builds as they work: daily check-ins log attendance, and everything they finish is saved automatically. Attendance logs and learning summaries are ready to export, and we draft the documents your state asks for from that same record, including portfolios with real work samples.
Our high school transcript builds from completed work, with courses, letter grades, credits, and GPA calculated for you.
Keeping faith in your school day
Treehouse Schoolhouse builds its resources on Biblical truth and scripture. The parent leads that material with the family, including guides devoted to Bible study.
Our curriculum isn't a religious curriculum unless you want it to be. Add Bible study, Christianity, or any faith as a custom elective, and we build a course around it, graded and recorded like every other subject. You can also add faith as an interest, and we'll weave it into any or all subjects, so it doesn't have to be its own course.
Moving from Treehouse Schoolhouse to us
School in a Box includes up to 12 subjects, from the core to custom electives on anything your child is curious about. Single Subject covers one course, if you would rather start there.
Start the 14-day trial and choose School in a Box or Single Subject.
Pick your child's subjects, including any topics they have been asking to learn more about.
Your child takes a placement in each subject, and their whole curriculum is built around them.
Other questions
- Can a child who is not reading yet use it?
- Yes. From Kindergarten through Grade 2, lessons are spoken and your child answers out loud, so an adult only needs to be nearby.
- Can siblings of different ages learn at the same time?
- Yes. Each child starts their own course at their own level, so siblings can sit side by side at the same time under one parent account.
- Does it go beyond Grade 8?
- Yes. Courses continue through Grade 12, and high school work becomes transcript courses grouped by subject and school year.
- Can we use ESA funds?
- We are approved in Arizona, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Utah. Program rules apply.
Your child's curriculum. Your family's time.
Keep family read-alouds and nature walks, with less preparation for the academic work around them.
$149/month per child after the trial.