2025-2026 Homeschool Curriculum Picks (for six youngsters grades 3-12)

World Watch (All) – It is a incredible 10-minute each day Christian information program for teenagers and households. It’s a motivating option to get the youngsters up within the morning, too, as a result of they don’t need to miss it!

Sound Phrases for Children: Classes in Theology – We’ll be going by means of this sequence once more as our primary Bible curriculum. It’s nice for elementary ages however shall be a great refresher for the older youngsters, too. It contains notebooking and actions, for elementary ages. It additionally prompts a variety of dialogue and fascinating rabbit trails! (My oldest will even be doing one other theology curriculum for highschool.)

Biblical Artwork Classes – The youngsters, particularly the older ones, loved the Foundations of Artwork: Bundle 1 of the on-line artwork programs by means of Biblical Classical Neighborhood. We plan to proceed with bundle 2, doing it as soon as every week. These water coloration classes are taught utilizing the Precept Method and I really like the content material.

Themed Chalk Pastel Challenge – We will even be bringing in You Are an Artist chalk pastel classes topically — Bible tales, holidays, historical past, maps, literature, and extra. I really like that the initiatives could be accomplished rapidly and utilizing a primary set of chalk pastels and development paper.

Artwork Appreciation – I needed so as to add an artwork appreciation course however I needed one thing that introduced artwork and artwork historical past with a biblical worldview and providential view of historical past. Cornerstone Curriculum was beneficial to me, so we’ll be attempting their Adventures in Artwork – Intermediate course for a bunch lesson as soon as every week.

Literature examine: We like utilizing the Middle For Lit Instructing the Classics strategy to debate literature, together with worldview and biblical ideas. It is vitally efficient and could be utilized to any of the group reads we do collectively, in addition to particular person books the older youngsters learn. This yr we’ll be utilizing the strategies to have extra group discussions concerning the literary parts and themes of our readings, in addition to extra intensely with our teenagers.

Bible – Along with our group Bible research, the three youthful boys shall be doing the Kingdom Brick Builders Membership, which is a web based useful resource that goes by means of month-to-month matters with devotions, Bible classes, brick constructing, and extra. We’re excited to get began and construct that group!

Studying – We realized final yr that this kiddo is dyslexic like considered one of his brothers and must run by means of a studying program that has extra assist. We’re working by means of All About Studying (wonderful Orton Gillingham program).

Handwriting – For this kiddo, the bodily act of writing is a problem. My aim is to proceed having him observe writing every day, whether or not that’s with copywork or notebooking throughout different topics or with a lesson out of A Purpose for Handwriting. It’s nice for letter formation, handwriting observe, and Scripture copywork.

Science – I’ll assist him undergo God Made Every thing from Generations this yr. That is our first time actually splitting out science. for every child as a substitute of doing it as a bunch. Might be totally different!

Math U See – We bounced round with math fairly a bit with this kiddo, looking for the appropriate match. In the long run we each landed on Math U See. He has some but to work by means of in Beta however then we’ll transfer on to Gamma.

Spanish – The older youngsters are doing their very own international language tracks, however the youthful three boys and I’ll persevering with with FlipFlop Spanish. It’s a complete household curriculum. That is 3 days every week for about quarter-hour and is enjoyable and hands-on!

Bible – Along with our group Bible research, the three youthful boys shall be doing the Kingdom Brick Builders Membership, which is a web based useful resource that goes by means of month-to-month matters with devotions, Bible classes, brick constructing, and extra. We’re excited to get began and construct that group!

Spelling: All About Spelling – That is on his loop schedule and we’ve been slowly working by means of the degrees. They’re actually serving to him enhance her spelling expertise! (Tip: We like utilizing the app as a substitute of the tiles so we don’t lose them.)

Math – He’ll be persevering with with Christian Gentle Training Math, stage 5. It is a incredible conventional spiral-based curriculum that has served us nicely for a lot of of our kids not less than as much as highschool, and thru it for my oldest.

Composition and Grammar – He’ll be working by means of Necessities in Writing stage 5. It contains grammar and composition. (Though EIW is a Christian firm, the content material is just not overtly Christian. We in biblical/worldview matters for writing prompts and speak about biblical ideas in relation to writing and communication.)

Science – He’ll do God Made Me from Generations this yr. Ought to be a great one!

Spanish – The older youngsters are doing their very own international language tracks, however the youthful three boys and I’ll persevering with with FlipFlop Spanish. It’s a complete household curriculum. That is 3 days every week for about quarter-hour and is enjoyable and hands-on!

Bible – He’s nonetheless working by means of his copy of Bible Investigators – Creation – It is a incredible new useful resource that makes use of puzzles and investigation to show private examine habits utilizing the inductive Bible examine technique.

Piano – This child LOVES piano, identical to his oldest brother. He accomplished your complete program for the Mr. Hoffman piano classes, in order promised, we moved him over to classes this summer season with our native piano trainer. (Good factor for us our oldest determined to finish his piano classes this summer season, too, as a result of we wouldn’t be capable of pay for 2! 😬)

Bible – Along with our group Bible research, the three youthful boys shall be doing the Kingdom Brick Builders Membership, which is a web based useful resource that goes by means of month-to-month matters with devotions, Bible classes, brick constructing, and extra. We’re excited to get began and construct that group!

Spelling: All About Spelling – This kiddo completed Lexercise and eye remedy this previous yr and acquired an incredible basis that helped him take off with studying despite his dyslexia. It gave him a great begin with spelling, too, so we’ll proceed engaged on that sill with AAS.

Math – This kiddo wants hands-on math together with his dyslexia and dyscalculia challenges. I’m so pleased with the progress he has made with Math-U-See! He’ll proceed with Epsilon this yr.

Composition and Grammar – He’ll be working by means of Necessities in Writing stage 6. It contains grammar and composition. (Though EIW is a Christian firm, the content material is just not overtly Christian. We in biblical/worldview matters for writing prompts and speak about biblical ideas in relation to writing and communication.)

Science – He’ll do God Made Animals from Generations this yr. His favourite matter!

Spanish – The older youngsters are doing their very own international language tracks, however the youthful three boys and I’ll persevering with with FlipFlop Spanish. It’s a complete household curriculum. That is 3 days every week for about quarter-hour and is enjoyable and hands-on!

Bible Examine – As a result of You Are Sturdy is a straightforward examine good for his age. We’ll be going by means of it collectively throughout out “devotion time with mother” slot on his loop schedule.

Bible – The excessive schoolers and I’ll do an inductive Bible examine of 1 and a pair of Corinthians this yr, which additionally occurs to be the books they’re learning/memorizing for Bible Quizzing. We’ll use this Precepts useful resource and I’ll lead the by means of it with the aim of giving them good examine expertise and observe making use of biblical ideas to any Bible examine. I’ll additionally pull in materials for some primary examine classes from Greedy God’s Phrase: A Palms-On Method to Studying, Decoding, and Making use of the Bible. (I have already got an older version I’ll be utilizing.)

Dwelling Economics – With my oldest graduating in 2026, it appeared like a good suggestion to ramp up some residence economics expertise and embody my different two excessive schoolers in on it, too. I nonetheless have to map out what precisely we’ll cowl, however the targets are that they’ll go away with a set of tried-and-true recipes they practiced nicely, primary residence upkeep expertise, primary mending expertise, menu planning and grocery budgeting, and many others. I’ll use the residence economics programs from Plain and Not So Plain as my launching pad.

Composition and Grammar – She’ll be working by means of Necessities in Writing stage 9 with the grading add-on. (They don’t actually grade – simply present suggestions for a few of the writing assignments.) I don’t know if we’ll do the entire thing, as a result of I feel she’d prefer to take a detour into extra artistic writing exploration. She and I’ll determine what that may appear to be. I’m eying The Younger Author’s Workshop.

Spelling: All About Spelling – We’ll hold working by means of AAS to strengthen these spelling expertise, in addition to lifting spelling phrases from her writing to observe.

Vocabulary: Wordela – It is a new useful resource to me, so we’ll see the way it goes. It’s a web based homeschool vocabulary program that lets me assign pre-made or custom-made lists. I assumed it may be extra enjoyable/efficient than a guide she may lose. I can have a number of college students, so a few of the different youngsters may attempt it, too.

Math – Denison Algebra 1 – Pre-algebra labored rather well for her final yr, so she’d prefer to proceed with Denison. Truthfully, Denison has been an excellent discover for us. I’ve a few math whiz youngsters, however the others hit struggles proper round pre-algebra. Denison is nice. (I’d most likely select one thing else for a kid pursing a math-heavy science diploma, however in any other case it’s incredible and sufficient for faculty prep.)

Science – She and her sister shall be doing chemistry this yr utilizing the next. They did one thing related for biology and it was *excellent.”

Historical past – She and her sister are working by means of the Antiquity historical past course from Compass Classroom. They’ll seemingly proceed with Christendom, which is church historical past and the center ages. I just like the biblical worldview of this course, the fascinating movies (they take notes), the incorporation of supply paperwork, and the straightforward portfolio exercise to interact with it. I’ll additionally add in some historic fiction reads and she or he’ll add to her timeline as she goes by means of it.

Notice: There are artwork historical past classes that typically have nudity within the art work. Totally different households deal with this in several methods. For my two women we inform them to only skip the art work content material and are utilizing a unique useful resource for artwork historical past/appreciation.

Bible – The excessive schoolers and I’ll do an inductive Bible examine of 1 and a pair of Corinthians this yr, which additionally occurs to be the books they’re learning/memorizing for Bible Quizzing. We’ll use this Precepts useful resource and I’ll lead the by means of it with the aim of giving them good examine expertise and observe making use of biblical ideas to any Bible examine. I’ll additionally pull in materials for some primary examine classes from Greedy God’s Phrase: A Palms-On Method to Studying, Decoding, and Making use of the Bible. (I have already got an older version I’ll be utilizing.)

Apologetics – We had Apologetics in Motion from Grasp Books scheduled for her final yr and forgot about it. She’d love to do it, so we’ll attempt once more this yr. 🙂 I doubt we’ll do the workbook however relatively will use it for dialogue and a few written narrations. We additionally plan so as to add Case for Christ and probably some C.S. Lewis to the combo.

Dwelling Economics – With my oldest graduating in 2026, it appeared like a good suggestion to ramp up some residence economics expertise and embody my different two excessive schoolers in on it, too. I nonetheless have to map out what precisely we’ll cowl, however the targets are that they’ll go away with a set of tried-and-true recipes they practiced nicely, primary residence upkeep expertise, primary mending expertise, menu planning and grocery budgeting, and many others. I’ll use the residence economics programs from Plain and Not So Plain as my launching pad.

English – She’ll be doing choose parts of ninth grade Necessities in Writing stage along with her sister for some additional observe (I simply grabbed an additional workbook to make it simpler) after which the remainder of her writing efforts shall be associated to different course work for literature and historical past.

It’s additionally time to show her the way to do pace essays, which is a option to mix written narrations, her essay group and writing expertise, and analysis/evaluation expertise into a brief weekly. I hope to try this over the last quarter of the yr. It’s a superb behavior for highschool writing!

Chook Unit – She and her sister will end up their Audubon course from Biblical Classical Neighborhood. It’s a beautiful course however we began a bit of late final yr and it’s substantial! So we’ll hold doing it at their tempo and end after we end.

Math – Denison Geometry – Taking a while in Geometry this coming yr! I feel she’ll like he break from Algebra. 😆

Science  – She and her sister shall be doing chemistry this yr utilizing the next. They did one thing related for biology and it was *excellent.”

Historical past – We switched her to the Generations world historical past course and she or he actually likes it. She’ll end the second half this yr. She and her sister will even work by means of the Compass Classroom course, Christendom, which is church historical past and the center ages. She’ll add to her timeline as she goes by means of each. I don’t assume the Generations course must be supplemented. She simply enjoys doing the Compass Classroom movies and discussions along with her sister.

French – She’ll proceed with The Ulat French, Simple French movies on YouTube, and a workbook for writing and grammar like Simple French Step-by-Step. We will even do a weekly tradition/challenge/writing exercise.

Artistic Arts – That is my inventive one! She spends a variety of time crafting and portray already. Right here’s what she’ll do that yr:

• Internship at a homeschool theater co for costume design, set design, and make-up (she’ll take some brief on-line programs about a number of of those matters, too)
• Studying to stitch from a fellow homeschool mother, with a watch towards costume creation
• Cake and cupcake design
• Digital illustration and animation
• Comedian guide writing and illustration
• Numerous handicrafts

Bible Quizzing – That is his third and final yr, so he desires to step it up! He plans to check an hour a day not less than and go for “Reminiscence Masters,” so it’s a precedence this yr.

Bible examine of 1 and a pair of Corinthians together with his sisters, utilizing this Precepts useful resource and with a concentrate on biblical ideas. We’ll additionally do a fast survey of various Bible examine strategies.

30 Days to Understanding the Bible – this shall be a fast overview, reviewing the group, themes, and threads of Scripture. We’ll most likely undergo it together with the Bible examine.

Foundations of Religion – My oldest has realized the fundamentals of doctrine and theology, particularly by means of Sound Phrases for Children, however I like that this goes extra in-depth for older youngsters and covers extra matters. He additionally likes workbook codecs, so it’s proper up his alley.

RLV Discipleship Curriculum – I’ve heard good issues about this and I feel he’d take pleasure in it! Good for biblical context research and sensible discipleship. He’ll do it within the second semester.

Some Extras:

• Day by day journal – Referring to each day Scripture studying, devotions, prayers, assigned books, or anything. However should be stored each day and be not less than a paragraph.
• Put together a sermon and every week of household devotions (his dad will assist him with this)
• Service Tasks – 2 every semester, training searching for methods to serve in our church and group

American Civics with Michael Farris – This self-paced video course by Michael Farris, founding father of Patrick Henry Faculty and Chairman of HSLDA, appears superb. I can’t wait to undergo it with him! PLUS they gave me a 20% off coupon code to move on to you! 🙌 Use code PROVERBIAL20 at checkout to get 20% off and lifelong entry.

Shopper Math for Actual Life – He’s completed Algebra 2, so the maths shall be straightforward, however he likes that he’ll study budgeting, investing, taxes, worker advantages, enterprise planning, and extra.

Life Expertise and Private Improvement

• Auto repairs – pulling some issues from this guide after which sensible work together with his dad on the teenager automotive
• Entrepreneurship course by Dave Ramsey
• Books to learn/narrate:

English 12 – We’ll undergo a set of literature alternatives and have discussions on biblical ideas and evaluation with Middle For Lit. (With the Pelican Society membership, we have now entry to a reside and recorded guide membership, so we’ll choose some which are from that record).

For writing, we’ll hold training essays and written narrations for literature and different topics, strengthening his writing. He’ll additionally undergo a few of the initiatives within the Actual World Writing Information: Excessive College Information to Skilled Writing from 7 Sisters. I’m including it it the way to do an Op-Ed, an informational interview write-up, a enterprise proposal, satire, {and professional} correspondence.

Dwelling Economics – With my oldest graduating in 2026, it appeared like a good suggestion to ramp up some residence economics expertise and embody my different two excessive schoolers in on it, too. I nonetheless have to map out what precisely we’ll cowl, however the targets are that they’ll go away with a set of tried-and-true recipes they practiced nicely, primary residence upkeep expertise, primary mending expertise, menu planning and grocery budgeting, and many others. I’ll use the residence economics programs from Plain and Not So Plain as my launching pad.