Faith Schooling vs Easy Peasy All-in-One for K–5

Which one fits: the short answer

Easy Peasy All-in-One is a free Christian curriculum covering every subject for PreK through Grade 8, delivered as daily web pages that link out to readings, videos and activities. Faith Schooling is a paid K–5 publisher for reading, phonics, cursive and math, taught by a parent from printed pages, with no science and no history.

One is free and covers everything on a screen. The other costs money, covers less, and puts the child's work on paper. Those are the two real trade-offs, and no amount of comparison writing changes either of them, so the rest of this page is about which trade you would rather make.

What each one is, and who does the teaching

Easy Peasy was built by Lee Giles and is donation-supported. The child works down a daily checklist of links; the parent monitors rather than instructs. That independence is the design, and once a child can read it genuinely reduces the teaching load. Neither the site nor its reviewers post a standard daily time — the day is however long the list takes that day.

Faith Schooling has no checklist and no links. An adult reads a script aloud: prayer and a calm start, explicit phoneme work, blending, a decodable text read and then retold from memory, a timed drill with a personal-best record, application, spaced-repetition cards and one open-ended question. That is 45 to 55 minutes of teaching, plus 10 to 15 minutes for cursive.

Side by side

Easy Peasy facts were observed on the curriculum's own site in August 2026. It is a volunteer-authored, donation-supported site rather than a catalog publisher, so pages are revised continuously and what you find today may differ from the row below.

The reading method is the real difference

Easy Peasy's own About page, quoted in Cathy Duffy's review, describes the sequence as letter names and sounds, then sight words, then phonics — with phonics presented as a tool for words the child does not already recognize. The program leans on Phonics Pathways and McGuffey. Cathy Duffy flags that sequence as unusual, and several reviewers report families adding a dedicated phonics program when reading stalls.

Faith Schooling runs the other way. Phonics comes first and explicitly, one skill per week, with 300 original decodable readers written only from patterns already taught, so a child practices on text that cannot be guessed at. Foundations to Fluency adds ninety-six workbooks arranged by pattern rather than grade, for the child who is behind on one specific thing.

This is not a claim that one method produces better readers; we publish no efficacy claims and have no study to point at. It is a description of two different sequences, written so you can choose the one you actually want rather than the one you assumed you were getting.

Cost, and what a free curriculum still costs

Easy Peasy is free. Not a free sample or a free first level — the whole curriculum, every subject, every child, supported by donations. That is a rare thing in this category and it deserves to be said plainly rather than hedged into a footnote by a publisher that charges money.

Faith Schooling All Access is $39 a month, or $299 for the founding first year and $349 a year afterward, covering every K–5 program and the complete practice library for every child in one household, and you print the pages yourself. Measured against free, that price has to earn itself on what is inside the lessons.

The one cost Easy Peasy does carry is device time and supervision. The day's work arrives as links, so a child needs a screen and an adult who checks that the links were actually opened and done. Optional printed workbooks exist if you would rather not run the whole day online.

Screens, and what a child touches all day

This is the widest gap in any comparison on this site. Easy Peasy's daily work lives on web pages that send the child to readings, videos and activities. If reducing screen time is one of the reasons you are homeschooling, that single fact matters more than any feature list either publisher can print.

Faith Schooling's browser layer is for the adult: HARVEST placement, the teaching guides, the practice library, the member workspace and the optional games. The child's daily work — student text, workbook, drill sheet, exit ticket, decodable reader, cursive page — is printed paper. There are no video lessons anywhere in the program.

Where Easy Peasy may fit your family better

It fills a role nothing else in this comparison fills, and for a household with no curriculum budget it is not a compromise but the answer.

• Your budget is zero, and it needs to stay zero. Easy Peasy is free and complete.
• You need every subject, including science and history, which Faith Schooling does not publish at all.
• You are teaching Grades 6 through 8, or high school through its separate site. Faith Schooling stops at Grade 5.
• You want a child who works independently down a daily list while you supervise, rather than an adult teaching a scripted lesson.
• You want an established, organized support community. Easy Peasy lists more than eighty location, level and situation Facebook groups from its own site.
• You have no printer budget. Easy Peasy runs online; Faith Schooling assumes you print.

What Faith Schooling does not do

It is Kindergarten through Grade 5 only, publishes no science and no history, and is not free. It is not accredited, because accreditation belongs to schools that enroll students rather than to publishers. There are no video teachers and no grading service, and nothing arrives in the post.

Mathematics is published grade by grade and is still being built out: every grade has its student text, and the accompanying workbook and teaching guide currently reach Grade 2. The practice library of more than 30,000 printable pages supports the programs; it is never the lesson, and we do not call it a curriculum.

How to decide this week

Because one of these is free, the honest sequence is to try that one first and only pay for anything it fails to do for your child.

1. Use Easy Peasy for two weeks. It costs nothing and it will tell you whether a link-based day suits your child.
2. If reading is where it strains, run HARVEST placement and print the report; it names a starting skill rather than a grade.
3. Read a Faith Schooling reading teaching guide in full before paying anything, and teach two days from it.
4. Decide whether you need science and history from the same source. If you do, Faith Schooling is not the answer and Easy Peasy is free.

HARVEST reading placement Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency