Our 4th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices

In our homeschool, somewhere around 3rd – 5th grades (depending on the child), we start digging more into writing and spelling skills. We also start to introduce more delight-directed learning as far as involving them in curriculum choices and picking electives! It’s a fun time. 🙂 Today I’ll be sharing our 4th grade homeschool curriculum choices over the years.

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4rd GRADE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM CHOICES

Each child and each year is different. However, there are some resources we tend to gravitate toward as far as 4th grade homeschool curriculum choices. I’ll be sharing those below.

You might also want to check out our main homeschool curriculum picks post, where I share what we use for group work and details on grade-level curriculum picks for the current year.

Planning / Tracking

While my older kids use the whole Student Work and Habit Tracker, my younger kids just use the loop scheduling sheet from the planner. I laminate it and post it on the wall for easy tracking. They simply mark what they’ve done each day to help us all stay on track! You can also download free simplified loop schedule templates here. 

Math

Christian Light Education is my preferred math curriculum. It’s straightforward and uses a spiral approach. In fact, I love it for all grades. Here’s a video review I did of CLE Math. 

Language Arts

For language arts we do more of a Charlotte Mason approach. We spend 4th grade year on strengthening writing and spelling skills.

Narration, Notebooking, Etc. – They will continue to do a lot of oral narrations and continue with notebooking and written narrations. (Narration helps with composition skills, speaking skills, retention of knowledge, and more. I consider notebooking in this category as well.) We do narration and notebooking for Bible, history, and more. I have my 4th graders do written narration about 2 times a week, at least 4 sentences each time. 

A Reason for Handwriting – I love this resource for letter formation, handwriting practice, and Scripture copywork. They continue through each level at their pace.  

All About Spelling – For those children who use All About Spelling, we continue during 4th grade year until they’ve completed all the levels. It uses the Orton-Gillingham method with helpful spelling rules and short lessons. 

Logic of English Essentials Online –  A couple of my kids have used this and it’s very helpful. It strengthens spelling, reading, grammar, and vocabulary skills. I prefer the online version (although I’ve used the paper one as well). 

Science

Science at this grade level is fun group work, delight-directed studies, or both. Here are some resources we’ve enjoyed for 4th grade science curriculum:

• Journey Homeschool Academy – These science courses can be done as group work (which is what we usually do for elementary) or independently. They are video-based and include hands-on activities and printable workbook pages. 
• Apologia Science – Until they get older, we use Apologia resources as group work. You can pick up one of their elementary series books and have fun reading them aloud, watching related youtube videos, and doing the suggested experiments. 
• Nature Studies – You can use great nature study resources to study anything you come across in your backyard or on outdoor adventures. We’ve certainly done a lot of that! If you’re looking for something put together for you, I recommend No Sweat Nature Studies. They’re video-based (live or recorded) online nature study lessons you can do together and then venture out to discover the topics in nature. 

Bible / Theology

• Group work – We do Bible Road Trip and Sound Words for Kids together. See more info in the “Group Work” section below.
• Devotions with Mom – About once a week we do a brief Bible study together on a relevant topic such as a character issue. 
• Bible Drawing Journal (OT) – This is a great resource to help your kids start digging into Scripture themselves. The Bible Drawing Journal goes through a survey of the Old Testament and they read a chapter a day. Then they draw about what they read and write a little bit, including a prayer. There is a NT version available, too. 

Life Skills

Kids Cook Real Food – If your kids are interested in cooking, check this out! There are different levels to explore as well as SkillLab modules to go deeper into topics like Instant Pot/Slow Cooker for kids, Healthy Breakfasts, and more. 

Group Work

So, those are our 4th grade homeschool curriculum picks for independent work. The rest of the subjects are covered by read alouds and group work. Below is what we typically do for group work. (Keep in mind, we don’t do every subject/resource every day. Read this post for more info on our routine.)

Sound Words for Kids: Lessons in Theology – My theology curriculum for ages pre-k and elementary. Once a week with some weekly memory review. My older kids review the material and do some notebooking.

Bible Road Trip – Our staple Bible curriculum that we’ve used for years. It’s excellent and can be used for pre-k through high school.  My 4th graders also do the memory work and notebooking that goes with this curriculum. 

BiblioPlan is what we use for multi-level group learning of history, church history, geography, and literature. It is a 4-year history cycle. View my full review of BiblioPlan here. 

Prairie Primer – When BiblioPlan gets to the time period in history that corresponds with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series, we like to take a break from nearly everything else to do Prairie Primer! It includes history, Bible, cooking, writing, science, and more. You just need to add math!

 

Masterpiece Society Art – We’ve loved all their courses for every age as well as their seasonal art projects and artist studies.  You can use the membership like we do or individual courses.  

Music in Our Homeschool – We use this as a group resource for hymns, preschool music, music for history, geography, and more. We do about one lesson a week. 

I hope you find some fun ideas here to explore for 4th grade homeschool curriculum. Let me know if you have any questions. I’m happy to share!

~ Tauna