We’re thrilled to announce that Michael Clay Thompson’s “Poodle and the Blue Desert Dunes” has joined the first three Poodle books as a Mom’s Choice Gold Award-winner! Across the globe, people rely on the MCA Mother-and-Child Honoring Excellence seal of approval as their trusted guide for selecting high-quality products and services for children and families. We’re honored to have received this award!

For those who are new to Royal Fireworks or those who want to gain a better understanding of what makes our award-winning MCT language arts curriculum special, we have created (and recently updated) a helpful new video. This 13-minute video explains why MCT has become the gold standard in language arts education, as well as the best way to implement the program. Even veteran MCT users may learn something new!

Royal Fireworks Online Learning has once again been voted first place for grammar in the 2023 Practical Homeschooling i-Learn Awards! We’ve earned awards in other categories too, including Comprehensive Language Arts, Teacher-Led Online Academies, and, for the first time, Computer Science! Come find out what makes us stand out in online education!

The 2023 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards have been released, and we’re thrilled to announce that the MCT language arts curriculum has won first place in the Comprehensive Language Arts category! The MCT curriculum has won this award multiple times. We’re honored to be trusted by so many homeschooling families. Thank you!

We’re thrilled to announce that all seven levels of the MCT language arts curriculum are now available as PDF eBooks on our website! With the availability of these eBooks, students and their instructors—whether teachers, parents, or other educators—can now access the curriculum easier than ever before. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to have the newest digitized versions of the MCT books!

Sometimes we get questions about the best way to use Michael Clay Thompson’s Poodle books, so we’ve produced a new video of Michael discussing his intent for the entire Poodle project and his recommendations for the most effective way of implementing the books with children.

The MCT language arts curriculum is an award-winning curriculum no matter which way you choose to use it: in traditional in-person lessons at home or school or in live online classes taught by Michael himself. Thanks to everyone who voted to award Michael these prestigious honors once again!

Michael Clay Thompson has done it again! The third installment of the Poodle series, “Poodle Knows Poetry,” has been named among the best in family-friendly media, products, and services by the prestigious Mom’s Choice Awards.

We are proud of the award-winning MCT language arts curriculum, but homeschooling parents can be overwhelmed by the scope of information when they’re first introduced to it. If you are interested in the MCT curriculum but are unsure of how to implement it, we’ve created an informative five-minute video explainer just for you!

We didn’t need another award to tell us that Michael Clay Thompson’s books are extraordinary; we know it. Still, however, we don’t mind hearing other people say it. And now they have: Michael’s newest book, “Poodle and the Blue Mountain Monster,” has just won a Gold Mom’s Choice Award for Excellence!

Schools and parents all over the world use the MCT language arts curriculum, but the curriculum is so comprehensive that it might be intimidating to those who are new to it. So we have put together two videos that explain what the curriculum is, how it works, and what the options are for using it and implementing it in practical, thoughtful ways.

We’re proud to announce that Michael Clay Thompson’s latest book, “Poodle Knows What?,” has received a Mom’s Choice Gold Award honoring excellence! And we’re not surprised. This book is perhaps the most delightful way to teach young children grammar that has ever been produced!

The readers of “Practical Homeschooling” magazine have voted Michael Clay Thompson’s language arts curriculum the best for online instruction in 2019. These online courses truly are formative experiences for the children who have the opportunity to take them.

“I have no doubt that every child would benefit from what you have to offer. For our particular child, though, this connection to the world of ideas…I do not mean to overstate it, but this has been a lifeline for her.” – parents of a child taking one of Michael’s courses at Royal Fireworks Online Learning