It’s that time of year again! Time to make some choices about curriculum for the coming year. I am often asked what we’re using for homeschool curriculum. Here is a run-down of our 2024 – 2025 homeschool curriculum picks! As always, feel free to ask me questions!

This year (2024-25) we have kids in 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 11th grades. 😲😆❤️

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Some Changes We’re Making This Year… 

A wonderful aspect of homeschooling is that we can make it fit our particular family’s needs. And as a family grows, those needs will change and grow, too.

This summer, I had a challenging time nailing down plans for areas where I was pondering some changes. As per usual, time in prayer and seeking the Lord’s wisdom was what was required. I’m so thankful that God cares about our home environment and how we educate our children and that He guides us when we seek Him.

With that in mind, here are some things we’ll be focusing on in our homeschool this coming year:

➡️ Notebooking – Notebooking is an incredibly efficient and useful tool that we kind of dropped in the last year or so. I’m looking forward to picking it back up! Not only does notebooking help them process and retain info, but it creates a record of what we learned that becomes a meaningful keepsake for us. 

➡️ Morning Time – We always do “Bible and breakfast,” followed by World Watch for news. This last year we broke off for independent work after that. I found that I was spending a lot of time re-grouping and bringing them back to the table for other group work. So this year we’re going to start up with longer morning times again to knock group work out right off the bat. 

➡️ Home Blessing Day – Home Blessing Day is something we did for years and got out of the habit. Looking forward to getting back into it! We’ll do a normal school load 4 days a week and have a lighter load on Fridays, when our electives co-op meets. On those days, we’ll focus on housework, commission chores, food prep, etc. 

➡️ Focusing on biblical principles – We are heavy on Bible study and biblical worldview in our homeschool and we plan to keep it that way. After some time researching and talking with Heather Hall from Principled Academy, I’m going to start incorporating some Principle Approach methods into our lessons and pick up a few PA resources to use as well. It’s actually what I’m most excited about for the coming year, so I’m looking forward to learning more and getting started!

How Our Homeschool Works

Before I launch into our choices, it’s helpful to know a little bit about our homeschool. Otherwise these homeschool curriculum picks will seem like a lot! (And it’s ok if we don’t end up doing it all. Sometimes when we get started we realize something has to get dropped! Only so many hours in the day.)

• We have 6 kids 16 and under and we take an eclectic approach to homeschooling. 
• For elementary ages, we keep lesson time as short as possible to make time for play and outside time. 
• I prefer multi-level teaching style for certain subjects, grouping work so we can all do it together whenever possible. 
• I also strongly prefer Christian worldview curriculum and apply a biblical perspective for materials that don’t already do so.
• We do year-round homeschooling with a lighter summer, taking breaks when we want.
• We do lots of read alouds and audiobooks, some group work, and then independent and 1:1 work.
• We don’t do everything every day. Loop scheduling allows for incorporating a lot of extras on a rotating basis without overloading our days.

Planners

My favorite planner has become the online Homeschool Planet planner, so if you need something to manage multiple kids and threads, read my review here. If you want something more relaxed or need to get your routines established, try out my Rhythms & Routines Homeschool Planning System. It’s what I used for 10 years and loved it!

Here is the general routine I have planned for the year. (You can find more about how I do planning here.) 

• Breakfast and Bible / Theology
• World Watch
• <chores, song list>
• Morning time loop 1: Spanish (~3/wk) / Composer study (~1/wk)
• Morning time loop 2: Science (~3/wk) / Literature study (~2/wk) 
• Independent work
• Lunch and Apologetics / Church History
• Afternoon loop: Self-Government (~2/wk) / Art (~2/wk) 
• Dinner – Literature read-aloud if Dad working. Otherwise, family devotions.

Our 2024-2025 Homeschool Curriculum Picks 

Group Work for all 6 Kids

I really value group learning with my kids. We learn and discuss together whenever possible and it builds our relationships. I find that especially important for Bible and history, but we do several things as a group and I often make homeschool curriculum picks to fit that approach. (Note that we don’t do this all every day.) 

Bible & Theology

• Bible Road Trip is our main Bible curriculum. We’ll be doing BRT Year Two this year (it covers Job to Malachi, which includes the books of poetry and prophecy).
• After we finish each book of the Bible with Bible Road Trip we do several lessons in whatever unit of Sound Words for Kids: Lessons in Theology we’re in at the time.
• Bible Quizzing – All the kids participated in Bible Quizzing last year and loved it. They’ll continue this year and use it for their Scripture memory. 

These two resources work together beautifully and have been staples in our home from the beginning! Alternating them is our sweet spot. They include Scripture reading, memory work, discussion time, notebooking, and more. )

History

Elementary Church History – This last year we started reading through the Children’s Providential History Collection (for grades 1-6) from Generations. It is a beautiful and interesting curriculum, going through each geographical area and sharing stories of how God used people and events to move the gospel forward in that region. We haven’t finished it, so we’re going to take another year to do so, doing some notebooking on it as well. 

Self-Government – We’ll also also take some time to go through The Mighty Works of God: Self-Government primary unit. This is a Principle Approach resource for young children that we’ve done before but it’s been a while! I’m considering doing the whole series. 

 

Group Art Lessons

We’ll be doing online art courses through Biblical Classical Community, starting with Foundations: Elements of Art Bundle 1. These lessons are taught using the Principle Approach, which is a good way to dip our toes into that more.

We have some other art resources we’ll be using as well, as usual, especially for my artsy kids. 🙂 For group lessons, we like to use You Are an Artist chalk pastel lessons that go along with Bible stories and holidays. 

Group Literature Study & Other Read Alouds

Literature study: We’ll be trying out some Principle Approach style literature studies from AMO (Charlotte’s Web, for sure, and possibly Hans Brinker or Pinocchio) and possibly the Beatrix Potter literature study course from Principled Academy. 

We also always have an extra literature read-aloud going during dinner time and audiobooks we enjoy together in the car. This year, I want to focus on picks from Generations literature and missionary biographies.

 

Apologetics

And finally, all the kids have asked for more apologetics and evangelism information.

• We’re reading through the Answers for Kids series now and they’r great!
• We will be going through some resources we got at the conference by Search for the Truth Ministries with Bruce Malone. They have some amazing books and curriculum my kids begged to get after hearing him speak. They have creation devotionals perfect for morning time, We also got a flash drive with video sessions, so we may add that to our rotation, too.
• We have a subscription to Answers.tv which has fantastic videos and resources for apologetics. My goal is to be more intentional about using them. 
• I’m also on the hunt for some simple resources that help me teach my kids to share the gospel with others. I may have to make one. 🙂 

 

Science: Agriculture and Gardening

One of my sons asked about learning more about agriculture and gardening. I decided it would be a good group study.

• We’ll be trying the new Agriculture curriculum from Gentle + Classical. It looks really fun! 
• There are TONS of resources from the Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom site we’ll pick from, including a lending library of kits and activities! Pretty cool. 
• Living books: 
  • Scratching the Woodchuck: Nature on an Amish Farm by David Kline
  • A Very Small Farm by Edmund Morris
  • Cultivated crops and insect sections from the Handbook of Nature Study.
• Gardening books from the library and lots of gardening projects, if my son has his way 🙂 

Spanish

We’ll be doing FlipFlop Spanish – whole family curriculum. This is 3 days a week for about 15 minutes and is fun and hands-on!

Composer Study 

This new Composer Study curriculum from Beautiful Feet Books looks lovely and is just once a week. We’ll be adding it to our loop schedule!

Inquiry

Once a week the kids have an “inquiry” task on their loop schedule. They are to research a topic or question they’re interested in and then report back to the family and teach us about it. Sometimes inquiry can take a few weeks depending on the topic and if they need to check things out from the library. 

 

Grade Level Homeschool Curriculum Picks

In addition to our group work, here are our homeschool curriculum pics for each of my kids to do:

11TH GRADE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS

My oldest joins us for morning Bible lessons and some read alouds. Otherwise he is on his own track. He chose most of his homeschool curriculum picks and electives this year. Here’s what he landed on.

Bible

• Bible Road Trip – He’ll participate in our group time, do his own reading assignments, take notes, and do extra research. 
• Inductive Bible Study – We’re doing a deep dive together into inductive Bible study using the “Grasping God’s Word” text and workbooks. 
• Evangelism & Apologetics – This has become a real passion of his. We’re discussing short term missions possibilities, local evangelism resources he can connect with, and possibly applying for a future staff position at Worldview Academy. Praying and seeing how it goes! In the meantime he’ll be using Living Waters resources, reading good books on evangelism and apologetics, and find other activities and opportunities as they arise.   

 

Language Arts

• Literature – Great Christian Classics Volume 3 from Generations. He really likes the Generations format and got a lot out of volume 1. Looking forward to learning along with him again with this set! He’ll also have many other literature and non-fiction selections to add to his reading list for the year. 
• Writing – In Your Own Words – Creative Writing from NotConsumed. This is a new curriculum from this publisher and I bought it when it launched. It looks great and just right for my reluctant creative writer. 🙂 (He’ll also have essays for history and literature.)

History

America in God’s Providence from Generations – This is a 2-credit course that can be done in 1 year or 2. I’m learning toward doing it over 2 years since he has some challenging coursework in other subjects, but he’s thinking of doing it in one. We’ll see!

We’ll also be adding some primary source reading to this from the books at KnoweldgeKeepers Books. If he does volume 1 for this year, I’d like him to read at least one of the KnowledgeKeeper books for each of the three units in that volume. It will be hard to pick! But other primary sources will be included in his reading as well. 

Math

Christian Light Education Algebra 2 – Back to Christian Light Education for Algebra 2! He did Algebra 1 with CLE math as well, but their Geometry has not yet been updated to the newer LightUnit format. He’s happy to go back to his favorite math curriculum. 

Science

 Discover Physics from Journey Homeschool Academy – This year he asked to do Physics. Journey Homeschool Academy is the curriculum he chose and he’s really looking forward to it! It includes video lessons, textbook reading, and lab assignments. 

Psychology

He asked to do a psychology course. I gave him a few picks and we went with the half-credit course Introduction to Psychology from a Christian Perspective by 7 Sisters Homeschool. It looks like a great resource that is just the right level for his interest. 

Career and College Exploration

 It’s time to start thinking about post-high school plans! He is going to be going through the Career Exploration unit from 7 Sisters Homeschool. We’ll also be working through some information together to see what scholarships and tests he might do (even if he chooses not to go to college, it will be a good activity that doubles as school). 

Other Activities

He’s such a busy one, this homeschooler. 🙂 He’s very much into piano right now and started doing piano exams and recitations last year. He’ll continue those lessons with his current teacher with a prep load suitable for potential music majors.

He also plans to do homeschool basketball league again, plays drums for church and other events on occasion, and has been talking about getting a job to pay for car insurance.

Phew! Growing up so fast. 

 

9TH GRADE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS

My upcoming 9th grader is a BIG reader. It’s hard to keep her in books. (Good books.) When I asked what she wanted to do for school this coming year, she said “can I just read books for my homeschool?” 😆 So we’re going to try to do that as much as possible! She also chose the topics and resources below. 

Bible & Apologetics:

• Bible Road Trip – Notebooking and additional reading (in addition to our group time)
• Apologetics – Apologetics in Action from Master Books and possibly an online Apologetics semester course from Northwest Treasures.

History

I had a hard time deciding what to do with my oldest daughter for history. We’ve landed on having her participate in the group history and church history read alouds and then go through the BiplioPlan guide for Ancient history. We have Mystery of History volume 1 book and audiobook on hand and the BiblioPlan guide provides a reading plan for it. So she can read that and discuss it with me, then use the BP guide for extra reading selections, activities, and writing assignments. 

 

Language Arts

• Finish Jump In by Sharon Watson – This is a great course that both of my older kids have enjoyed. It can be done over 1-2 years. She’ll finish that first.
• In addition to her constantly epic personal reading list, I think I’ll have her work through the Christian Writers Literature and Composition course from 7 Sisters Homeschool. I’m hoping to use that and try out some Principle Approach literature studies on them using this article from Principled Academy.
• Grammar: 180 Lessons for 9th Grade Grammar from the Simple Grammar Ultimate series.

Math

Denison Algebra 1 – Pre-algebra worked really well for her last year, so she’d like to continue with Denison. 

Science

Guest Hollow – Chemistry in the Kitchen – My daughter loves cooking and baking. This course is a fantastic way for her to dip into high school science while enjoying kitchen projects and lots of reading! Looking forward to trying it. (Note: we plan to use many of the books but will skip some of them, mostly the optional ones, due to content considerations. Guest Hollow does a good job of including notes for such issues so parents can decide what to include.)

French

She chose French? 😬 There don’t seem to be a lot of good high school options for French that aren’t live classes (she’d prefer not doing live classes). She landed on The Ulat French, which uses symbols and gestures to teach and is entirely in French. It doesn’t include cultural or geography aspects so we’ll find a book to add that in. I also found several French versions of children’s books in print, in PDF, and read aloud on YouTube. I think she’ll enjoy reading/listening to those. 

Art

My girl is painting all day every day, it seems, but has been interested in doing extra projects. In addition to our group work, she’ll be doing projects whenever she wants in Masterpiece Society. 

Other Activities

This past year she started getting involved in the pro-life movement and pursuing her passion for advocating for the unborn. She started a new cupcake business and spent the first month fundraising for a pregnancy resource center mobile unit. She plans to continue her business and donate a portion of the proceeds going forward. She also is getting involved in activities with our Oregon Right to Life organization and participating in marches, learning how to talk to others about this issue, etc. I’m sure that all of that will be a big focus for her this year as well!

 

7TH GRADE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS

My upcoming 7th grader doesn’t have a lot of opinions about what her school work should be like, so it took some digging over the summer to find things that suit her well.  

Math

We switched her to CTCMath last year when she hit a roadblock and she really likes it. We’ll continue with that at her pace. 

Language Arts

Writing and Grammar: Essentials in Writing (EIW)  – Last year we tried out EIW for writing. She did really well with it and made lots of progress. She’s a kid that really needs steady, consistent, incremental work in the skills subjects and SHORT lessons. Due to time constraints I had a hard time meeting those needs with what we normally do for writing, so we tried EIW out and it worked well!  It covers grammar more in-depth up to 6th grade, so I’m not sure if we’ll add a grammar supplement. We may do so after she finishes out her spelling curriculum. 

Spelling: All About Spelling – This is on her loop schedule and we’ve been slowly working through the levels. They are really helping her improve her spelling skills!

Literature: She is a good reader and has her own rotation of books she re-reads often. My main goal for this year is to expand her horizons a bit and bring in some other reading selections. I may have her do some of the Generations literature selections on her own and discuss them, and possibly do some Principle Approach literature notebooking for some books. 

 

Bible

• Bible Road Trip Notebooking Pages – to go along with our Bible Road Trip curriculum.

 

Science

For the most part she’ll be doing our agriculture studies with us, with some extensions for middle school. I’m also going to offer her the Exploring Science and Exploring Weather online unit studies from FundaFunda. 

 

Other Activities

She’s been learning the flute and this will be her third year in band! She also plays in the homeschool baseball and basketball leagues. She is also an avid birder and asked to do more birding excursions to get more birds in her journal. 

 

5TH GRADE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS

Our son going into 5th grade has been going at his own pace with several subjects as we accommodate his dyslexia and some signs of dyscalculia. Here are our homeschool curriculum picks for 5th grade for him!

Bible

Bible Investigators – Creation – This is a fantastic new resource that uses puzzles and investigation to teach personal study habits using the inductive Bible study method. My two middle boys will be doing it!

Math

My kiddo is LOVING Math-U-See so we’ll be continuing with that. We’ll also keep reviewing his math facts from the AIM program. 

Language Arts

• Lexercise – This program has been such a blessing to our kiddo. It’s been wonderful for reading, writing, and spelling and he’s really taken off in these areas. We plan to continue through until the end and then join their review program to keep it going. 
• Writing and Grammar: Essentials in Writing (EIW)  – This worked so well for one of my other kids we started it with this kiddo! It provides steady, consistent, incremental work in grammar and writing and has SHORT lessons. Perfect for my son!
• Handwriting and Typing – I love A Reason for Handwriting for letter formation, handwriting practice, and Scripture copywork. They continue through each level at their pace. This is on a loop schedule alternating with typing (we use Typing.com and NitroType.)
• Reading / Literature – Some months ago he decided to read through the whole Bible. I thought it was just a fleeting idea but this kiddo is determined, if nothing else! He’s currently in Numbers. He reads a page or two most mornings (he’s my early riser so often it’s just the two of us) and then narrates it to me orally. It’s awesome. I also want to find a few more book series he can get into. 

Gardening/Building Projects

This is the son who asked to learn more with agriculture and gardening this year. He has big plans to save up for a greenhouse for our back yard and build it himself. And he’s definitely a determined kid, so it will likely happen. We are also hoping to have him do a couple of 1-week trips here and there to a family friend in Washington who has their own homestead and is excited to host Miles for fun building and gardening projects. What a blessing that would be!

Other Activities

He’ll be in a band for his third year now. He’s been doing great! 

 

4th GRADE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS

My third grader reminds me of my oldest. He likes workbooks! So funny to me. Here’s what we’ll be doing for his homeschool curriculum picks: 

Bible

Bible Investigators – Creation – This is a fantastic new resource that uses puzzles and investigation to teach personal study habits using the inductive Bible study method. My two middle boys will be doing it!

Math

Christian Light Education for 4rd grade math – he continues to do really well with this!

Language Arts

• All About Spelling – He likes this program and it’s strengthening his spelling skills, so we’ll continue with it. 
• Language Lessons for a Living Education – Last year he went through level 3, so he’ll continue with level 4. 
• Literature: Just like one of his older sisters, he is a good reader but just tends to re-read the same things all the time. Which isn’t bad, but I want to add some variety and stretch him a bit.
• Cursive and Typing – He’s learning cursive with A Reason for Handwriting. This is on a loop schedule alternating with typing (we use Typing.com and NitroType.)

Other Activities

He really has an affinity for the piano. He’s been working through the premium membership of Mr. Hoffman piano lessons and is doing great. I told him that if he finishes that whole program we will have him start with the piano teacher his oldest brother goes to. He’s excited! He also does homeschool baseball and basketball league. 

 

2nd GRADE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS

Math

We’ll be continuing with Math-U-See for this kiddo, I think. 🙂 I also have CLE Math for 2nd grade on hand, so we may pop over there at some point. I haven’t decided. 

Writing

He’ll continue working on his handwriting with A Reason for Handwriting. I love that it uses Scripture! He’ll also start notebooking for the first time to start drawing and writing in response to our daily lessons. I imagine one page a day will be plenty. He’ll do great!

Reading

He’s finishing up Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons now and we’ll start working through the God’s Big Story reader collection. We’ll also be pulling in a lot of reading practice with the plethora of Dr. Seuss books and other easy readers for practice. 

 

Whew! That’s a lot! Hope your coffee didn’t get cold as you were reading our 2024 – 2025 homeschool curriculum picks. 🙂 But using multi-level teaching and loop scheduling, things will get done pretty quickly and we’ll have plenty of time for play and outdoor time.  ❤️

Feel free to post questions in the comments! Always happy to chat about curriculum. Have a great homeschool year!

~ Tauna

Other Curriculum Picks Posts 

• Christian Online Homeschool Curriculum Picks
• 2023-24 Curriculum Picks
• 2022-23 Curriculum Picks
• Past Preschool curriculum choices
• Past Kindergarten curriculum choices
• Past 1st grade curriculum choices
• Past 2nd grade curriculum choices
• Past 3rd grade curriculum choices
• Past 4th grade curriculum choices
• Past 5th grade curriculum choices
• Past 6th grade curriculum choices
• Past 7th grade curriculum choices
• Past 8th grade curriculum choices
• Past 9th grade curriculum choices

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Other Homeschool Moms Whose Curriculum Picks *I* Enjoy Browsing

• Amy with Raising Arrows – (This post is particularly interesting because she talked about taking a Jubilee year.)
• Gena with I Choose Joy – 2024-24 Curriculum picks 
• Nicki Truesdell – I like to buy books from her KnowledgeKeepers store, so naturally I get curious what she’s using for homeschooling.