Ezra Learning vs My Father's World

What each one is

My Father's World is a print homeschool curriculum that, in its own words, "combines the best of Charlotte Mason's ideas, classical education, and unit studies", for preschool through Grade 12. Each year is one package: a Teacher's Manual with daily plans in a weekly chart, real books to read aloud, student sheets and hands-on projects, covering Bible, history, geography, science, art and music together; Grades 4–8 share one program in a five-year Family Learning Cycle so siblings learn the same theme at their own levels. Math and Language Arts are required but sold separately. The World Changers Package for 3rd Grade is $482.17 at full retail, shown at $385.74 with October's 20% package discount, with Student Sheets at $48.95.

Ezra Learning covers Grades 1–9 in Mathematics, English, Spelling, Bible and Geography, with about 6,900 hands-on practice skills and 1,220 narrated lessons, each with a printable sheet. Scripture (Berean Standard Bible) is read word for word in every strand of every subject; there are no cartoons, games or characters. The Family plan is $15 a month per household, up to six children, and the first two sections of every subject and grade are free.

The facts, line by line

		My Father's World
Grades	Grades 1–9	Preschool–Grade 12
Subjects	Math, English, Spelling, Bible, Geography	Bible, History, Geography, Science, Literature, Art, Music; Math and Language Arts added separately
Price	$15 USD a month for the household (up to six children)	$482.17 retail for the World Changers Package (3rd Grade), per child; $385.74 at the October discount; math and language arts extra
Free to start	Two sections of every subject and grade, always free	Free downloads, a free catalog and a free consultation; no free trial of a package
How a lesson is taught	Narrated by a voice, drawings only, watch-only	The parent follows the weekly chart in the Teacher's Manual: reads aloud, leads projects and discussion
Practice	Hands-on: drag, tap, sort, build, drop a pin	Student sheets, notebooks, timelines, projects, nature journaling; math and language arts in the separate programs
Scripture	A Bible verse in every strand of every subject, read aloud	Bible is the spine of each year: Bible reading, memory work, Names of Jesus, hymns; the NIrV Discoverer's Bible is the recommended text in the early grades
Printables	A PDF sheet for every lesson + a library of 147 books and packs	Printed Student Sheets (sold per child) and free downloads on their site
High school	No	Grades 9–12: history, English and Bible together, 3 credits a year, with a DECLARE coaching option
Science	No	Yes
History	No	The theme of every year from Grade 2 up
Parent reports	Per child: minutes, mastery, needs-a-hand, PDF report	The parent's own records; no built-in grading
Siblings together	Each child works at his own grade	Grades 4–8 share one program in the Family Learning Cycle
Screen time	Online, any device with a browser	Paper books and projects; some online music playlists
Cartoons, games, characters	None	None stated on their site

Facts checked October 14, 2026 on the two sites. Prices and plans change; the links at the end go to My Father's World's own pages, and we correct this table when we are told it is out of date.

What it costs your family

The biggest practical difference is how the price is counted. My Father's World is priced per student. Ezra is priced per household, so a second, third or fourth child costs nothing more.

How a lesson is taught

A My Father's World day follows the weekly chart in the Teacher's Manual, which lists every subject with the book and the pages for that day. The parent reads the Bible passage and the history summary aloud — in World Changers the manual carries eighteen short history summaries to read — the child reads from his own Bible or reader, fills a page in his history notebook or student sheets, adds to the timeline or a map, and does the day's project: a pre-engineering build, a nature walk with a journal entry, a drawing lesson, a hymn or a recorder lesson. Math and language arts are done in the separately bought programs the manual schedules. Afternoons are left open on purpose. The parent keeps the records; nothing is graded automatically, and the manual and most books serve the next child with new student sheets.

An Ezra lesson is a short narrated slideshow: one voice reads every word while a simple line drawing builds up on the slide — no cartoons, no characters, no questions asked of the child inside the lesson. The lesson ends with a Bible verse read aloud, and every lesson has a printable sheet for the child to do on paper. Then the child goes to the practice skills of that strand, which are hands-on: drag the pieces, tap the picture, build the number, sort the words, drop a pin on the map.

Where the Bible sits

Both programs are Christian. My Father's World says its curriculum is built on a "Christian biblical worldview" with Bible content integrated into every subject; the Bible is the spine of each year — a Bible reader and Bible notebook in Grade 1, the Names of Jesus in Grade 2, James memorized verse by verse in Exploration to 1850, the Old and New Testaments read verse by verse in Grades 9–10. The recommended children's Bible in the early grades is the NIrV Discoverer's Bible for Young Readers (New International Reader's Version). In Ezra, Scripture is not a subject on the side. Every strand of Mathematics, English, Spelling and Geography closes with a verse from the Berean Standard Bible, read aloud word for word, and a Scripture practice skill sits at the end of every strand. Bible is also a subject of its own in every grade, with a character strand (obey right away, tell the truth, no quarrelling) in each. The verses are never paraphrased.

What My Father's World has that Ezra does not

Preschool, Kindergarten and Grades 10–12. History and Science as full subjects, with art, music, hymns and recorder in the same package. A year in which Bible is the backbone and the other subjects hang from it, with Scripture memory and a Bible notebook. One program for Grades 4–8 so a family's middle children learn together. Real books read aloud, timelines, history notebooks, nature journals and hands-on projects, all scheduled in a weekly chart. Books and manuals the family keeps and reuses, and free U.S. shipping over $150.

What Ezra has that My Father's World does not

Math, English and Spelling taught inside the program, Grades 1–9, with no second program to buy. A Bible verse in every strand of every subject, read aloud word for word from the Berean Standard Bible, and a Bible subject in every grade. A lesson that teaches itself: the child presses play and a calm voice walks him through it with a simple line drawing on every slide, so the parent is not the reader and teacher of every subject every day. Practice the child does with his hands — dragging, sorting, building, dropping a pin on a map — generated endlessly and graded on the spot, with a parent report that shows mastery, minutes and where he needs a hand. Geography as a subject of its own with maps the child touches. A printable sheet for every lesson and a library of 147 books and packs. One price for the household. And two free sections of every subject and grade, so a family can see all of it before paying anything.

Where the facts come from

• World Changers Package (3rd Grade) — mfwbooks.com
• Complete homeschool curriculum packages — mfwbooks.com
• Pricing (seasonal package discounts, shipping) — mfwbooks.com
• My Father's World — home page
• Ezra Learning: pricing and curriculum pages, October 14, 2026.

My Father's World is the name of its owner, used here only to identify the product. If you represent My Father's World and a fact here is wrong, write to hello@ezralearning.com and we will correct it.