Growing in knowledge and virtue through classically inspired
community days, service, and our shared Catholic-Christian faith
Learning at home.
Learning in community.
Our Mission
Lux Christi Homeschool Community is a dedicated 501(c)(3) not-for-profit homeschool co-op in the south Houston, Texas, area (meeting at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Alvin), committed to supporting families in their homeschooling journey and educating children through the lens of our Catholic Faith.
Our mission is to foster a vibrant educational community in which we educate our children to seek and spread Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, so that they will ultimately seek to become saints.
Our Community Structure
With once-per-week Co-op meeting dates, you have the flexibility to do what you need the rest of the week and the structure that supports your family's homeschooling in community!
Co-op Meeting Days
Our Co-op Community Days are focused on activities and discussions best done together in community rather than at home so as to bolster the family's homeschooling efforts and give our children "positive peer pressure" (motivation to pursue academics so as to participate in classes with their friends).
Preschool enjoys read aloud time, music appreciation, outdoor play, Montessori-style stations, introduction to letters, numbers, shapes, and saints, and art, science, and alphabet crafts/projects curated for their abilities and attention spans.
The 4-6-year-olds in Pre-Grammar also spend an hour in the CGS Atrium (Catechesis of the Good Shepherd).
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Grammar Level students (Grades 1-6) begin with a 40-minute assembly time of pledges, announcements, hymns & prayers, Latin and timeline memory work, & virtue presentation. Then scholars split into groups that cycle through four 40-minute classes: science class, art class, Great Words during the history/geography class, and Into the Deep for grades 4-6 to cover religion. Grades 1-3 also have an abbreviated time using Level 2 Atrium materials.
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Dialectic (Grades 7-8) and
Rhetoric 1 & 2 Stages enjoy science classes, writing instruction, discussions of Great Books, history class, and logic with in speech and debate. ​​
Curriculum for Co-op
...and at home, if desired!
We offer once-a-week programming for preschool through graduating seniors, along with nursery time for babes and toddlers.
Grades 1-6 (Grammar Stage) can utilize the Schola Rosa curricula to the level that the parents desire, focusing on art, science, religion using Into the Deep, and Classically Catholic Memory work at Co-op.
Grades 7-12 (Dialectic and Rhetoric
1 & 2) use Traditio Nostra curricula to the level that the parents desire, focusing on science, Great Books, logic with speech and debate, and history during our co-op meetings.
An optional literature discussion course called +PLUS is available after lunch to students in grades K-12.​
At home, parents can choose to use any amount of the resources or curriculum choices available in their online suite through Schola Rosa and Traditio Nostra. A complete curriculum, with all subjects, is available through our Co-op subscription to Schola Rosa and to Traditio Nostra.
You can use all of the materials in the online suite;
use just some of them;
or use none beyond what is
required for co-op day.
The choice is completely yours.
Support Network
of Families
Because this is a truly cooperative unit, we rely on our parent volunteers in order to be able to offer the classes and community that we are so blessed to have! Registering with Lux Christi means that at least one parent/guardian is committed to attending co-op and serving as a class leader or assistant each week we are in session, with the exception of illnesses. As a parent, YOU are the primary educator of your children every day of the week, and as a member of Lux Christi, you are also invested in the education of other parents' children as well. We truly do need ALL our parents so that all our children can thrive!
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Beyond co-op days, our families are invited to Prep Sessions, Community Formation Events, Semester-End Programs and Showcases, social events like Moms' Nights Out, Family Potlucks or other gatherings, a Dinner-Dance, and Field Trips.
During the summer, we have lesson planning sessions for anyone who wishes to work on their plans for the year while in the company of fellow homeschoolers, as well as informal pool parties.
We also host formation days for parents/teachers and a kick-off week to run through procedures and expectations before introducing students to all the curricula that will be encountered each week.
Our Core Values
The LUX CHRISTI Homeschool Community shares the following core values:
FAITH-CENTERED LEARNING
Based on a classical model of education and through a Catholic-Christian worldview, we read living books that inspire lifelong learning as well as discussion on history and culture. We study fine arts and sciences in a spirit of wonder and awe at God's creation and the beauty captured in the arts.
LITURGICAL LIVING
We integrate elements of the Catholic liturgical year into the co-op activities, and, when possible, attend Mass and other liturgies together to grow in grace.
FAMILY CULTURE
Homeschooling takes many forms, but we share in having family bonds bolstered through parents/guardians serving as primary educators for their children, reading alongside and discussing literature together, and the prioritizing of spending time with family. At least one parent/guardian's volunteering at co-op strengthens this family culture.
SOCIAL AWARENESS
We encourage acts of charity in accordance with Catholic social teaching so that all may grow in generosity and responsibility through service projects.
VIRTUE DEVELOPMENT
MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST
We are a community of joy-filled families walking similar paths in our vocations as homeschoolers, and we pray that we will become true friends, working through conflict in gentle humility and bearing one another's burdens with love.
We wish to foster growth in virtues like self-control, diligence, attentiveness, courtesy, responsibility, and charity, both for children and adults.
STREAMLINED EFFORTS
We seek to work together at co-op days to do projects and educate children in subjects that are most effectively done in community rather than at home, and we use materials that can adapt to various levels of learning.
WELCOME FOR ALL ABILITIES
We endeavor to offer programming for all children's ages and abilities. Our family members with learning differences bring unique gifts and struggles, and as a community, we both welcome and wish to support them as the beloved children of God that they are.
Family Cost Estimator
$
$300
Family Enrollment Fee
$
$75
Per-Student Supply Fee
$
$_
Facility Donation
$
Book Purchases that are NOT included in your fees
Though not required for use at co-op, parents are HIGHLY encouraged to buy the Cycle 1 Maps (Alpha $26.47) and a ONE-TIME PURCHASE of a set of the Timeline Cards $21.37 from CCM for children in 1st through 6th grade. The Timeline Cards are used in ALL THREE CYCLES, so if you have some from a previous year, you are all set. All other books and materials assigned or used by Schola Rosa are available to print from the Online Suite; however, if you prefer to purchase hard copy versions (The Cycle 1 Handbook, $40.79, in particular might be helpful), those are all available for purchase through the Oxrose Press online store. Explore their curriculum options by Grade here—just remember, ALL of these printed materials are already included in the Online Suite enrolled members will have access to come July.
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Parents of students in Grades 3-6 who are enrolled in the optional +PLUS literature course (after lunch class) will be invoiced for the the Book of Goodness Humanities Notebook ($25) as well as the Book of Goodness Instructor Guide ($30) so that they have a guide with which to teach the Grammar Workshop (at home on Days 2-4). All Books of Goodness will be available at cost for any Lux Christi member, as founding members authored the books. Furthermore, each novel or book assigned in the +PLUS course will need to be acquired by your family in some way—through purchase, audiobook, or loan from the library—before the month it is assigned.
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Upper Level Parents are required to purchase the IEW (Institute for Excellence in Writing) Ancient History-Based Lessons Student book, $35, for their Dialectic-age (Grades 7-8) children (NOTE: Parents may wish to purchase the Teacher+Student set, $55, in order to help their children at home), along with the Novare Earth Science book. Parents of Rhetoric 1 & 2 students (Grades 9-12) will need to purchase the Lost Tools of Writing Level One Student Workbook (unless they already have a copy) along with the Novare General Biology or Novare General Chemistry student text and a solutions manual. Rhetoric 1 students also need a copy of Traditional Logic student text and workbook from Memoria Press.
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Parents may desire to buy any hard copy novel of books assigned in Dialectic or Rhetoric 1 or 2 if their child wishes to have hard copy versions. Digital versions and audio versions ARE included in the Great Books course on Traditio Nostra. Furthermore, each Traditio Nostra course has accompanying Traditio Nostra texts that can be printed weekly from the Online Suite OR purchased in bound printed form for an additional cost.
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