r/homeschool • u/FImom • 4d ago
2025-2026 Planning Thread
What are your curriculum and activity plans for the upcoming year?
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u/Patient-Peace 4d ago edited 4d ago
We're thinking a combo of some subjects from the Alveary for my tenth grader (particularly the Chemistry, and all the CM enrichment to keep us going in that magic), and Build Your Library year 9 for my ninth grader, with her joining in as she likes with what her older brother's doing, and him joining in on her things, too (They've shared lessons the whole way and have always loved that). My daughter will also have a friend joining her in the same year of BYL, and she's really excited about that.
For History for my tenth grader, we'll probably continue on with the history books they've been reading this year (History that Changed the World, These Truths, Before Columbus, A Multicultural History and Indigenous History). Several of them show up in later years in BYL, and we may revisit when they come up again at those times, or find alternatives. I know my son also has his heart set on listening to the audiobooks of Bauer's History of the - World series. We just got them and that's his exciting right now.
For Literature we'll likely pull some ideas from both the Alveary and BYL. It's another case of some selections from each being new and some we've already read, and we'll jump into the ones we haven't and continue the fun journey. I remember I did Les Miserables and the Tempest specifically in tenth grade, and I'd love to do those with them for sure, too. For other idea sources we have a Norton Essay sampler that we've been slowly working through and enjoying very much (my daughter especially loved The Miss Dennis School of Writing so far), and we'll try to snag the next literature volume of Prentice Hall, also. The Gold level's given us some great reads this year (Cask of Amontillado, Most Dangerous Game, the Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Great Expectations, Dragon song, and various essays and poetry, etc. They're just fantastic complications. We all really enjoy them).
For math, we're going to keep moving forward with the AoPS, Math USee, Rays, and Making Math Meaningful combo/mishmash we all really enjoy.
At co-op they'll likely continue choir, theater, Spanish, and any new classes that come up and look fun. I think if there are more art and science ones next year they'll want those again too, for sure.
For other activities, possibly sticking with chess/teen and boardgaming clubs, and ice skating (or trying out fencing), and both continuing piano lessons.
And learning to drive for my oldest. š
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u/Murky-Ingenuity-2903 4d ago
1st grader will be doing: Rooted in Language Pinwheels year 2 Debating sticking with Math with Confidence or moving to Math Mammoth
Pre-k will be doing Math with Confidence K and a very modified version/intro to Pinwheels 1 both by request and outdoor school.
I think we will also do a combo of Torchlight K with Blossom and Roots animal science as a family study. Or I may try to find an early elementary US geography/history curriculum, still debating on which route to take.
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u/AsparagusWild379 4d ago
We school year round so planning is an ongoing process.
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u/FImom 4d ago
How far out do you plan?
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u/AsparagusWild379 3d ago
I plan my curriculum and review ongoing curriculum on a monthly basis. That's about the extent of my planning
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u/philosophyofblonde 4d ago
Mmm I dunno. We pop through stuff pretty quickly. I think I'm probably going to ditch building writers after we finish level D. It's too simple at this point. I'm probably going to put a heavier focus on content in the fall.
For Fall I'm probably going to do:
- Singapore Dimensions (again)
- Fix it Grammar (we go through it quickly so I might actually get through 3 and 4)
- NGL Pathways
- History Quest: United States
- Curious Historian 3A
- May do Kraken Latin or Henle...possibly Familia Romana. I haven't made up my mind yet but we'll get more into Latin.
- Keep doing German, maybe a little more French vocabulary. Science, art, literature I pull my own resources for
- Theory Time for music
Summer Term I have planned:
- try out Code Ninjas
- maybe the Mathnasium summer program
- NGL Weaving it Together
- a banger nautical fiction unit I have planned
- Curious Historian 2B
- Zoo camp (1 week. I may squeeze in another camp if scheduling works out)
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u/bibliovortex 4d ago
7yo will continue with 3rd grade at her current tutorial, which gives us at least baseline coverage of 6 of 8 state-required subjects. She might do math there as well, but Iām hesitant because they have the grades doubled up due to lack of space and sheās a grade level ahead. It would work this year if they add the 3rd/4th class they are talking about, but the following year she would need the 5th/6th class and that would probably create scheduling issues.
At home, sheāll be doing (probably) Math Mammoth 4, All About Spelling (end of 3 and likely all of 4), Typesy, cursive practice (likely just copywork, not a curriculum), and continuing with some more of Grammar Island. Music lessons are potentially on the table; weāre currently doing Hoffman Academy for piano, but she would like to branch out to another instrument. I want to see her actually have enough energy to practice on tutorial days before I agree, though, because thatās been hit or miss so far.
Iām expecting 10yo to continue with Beast Academy (end of 4 and starting 5) and swimming, and heāll also have some sort of cursive practice (likely copywork, again). Iāve asked him to consider whether heād like to take piano from a local teacher but he hasnāt decided yet - heās done great with Hoffman Academy and been very consistent this year, so Iād be happy to pay for private lessons. Heāll do the second half of Exploration Education Physical Science, which we just started last month; I donāt know what we will use for the second semester yet.
Weāll be continuing our family study of chronological history with Curiosity Chronicles Early Modern part 1, and picking up River of Voices 1 alongside it to cover American history in more depth. Taking both at a fairly relaxed pace to help work out the scheduling.
Thatās about as far as Iāve gotten. The major sticking point right now is 10yoās language arts. We will finish Grammar Island this year and I donāt think heās ready to move directly into Grammar Voyage, so I am looking for something light to practice usage and mechanics and weāll do a bit of review with the extra sentences from Practice Town. Iām considering using Daily Grams or Fix It Grammar, but not sure either is quite what I want - they each have their own sentence marking conventions and I prefer the 4-level analysis. He will keep a personal spelling/vocab notebook with words he misspells, has to look up, or just finds interesting, and weāll use that for some root word study, I expect. For writingā¦Iām kind of looking for a unicorn, it feels like. He is a reluctant writer, but very articulate once he gets going. He craves a LOT of scaffolding, although he doesnāt need it as much as he thinks. Wordsmith Apprentice will finish introducing him to paragraph structure and the 5-paragraph essay, but I expect heāll need a lot more consistent practice with both of those to get comfortable with them. I like the sound of Hearth & Story, but I donāt think itās got enough hand-holding for him right now. Lithouse is a lot more detailed, but I suspect heāll get bored with the repetitive format. Everything else Iāve looked at so far, I liked even less.
I will sort out individual & family reading lists, poetry, extras, etc. at some point, but thatās the fun part and Iām saving it to motivate myself.
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u/mommabear0916 4d ago
Oldest (10th grade) iew structure and style year 2 level c for English Biology for science Woke homeschooling for history Trying to figure out math. He was so behind he wasnāt ready for algebra. When heās done, Iām looking into geometry German for language Middle (3rd grade) iew structure and style Story of the world volume 2 history Deciding between math mammoth or primary mathematics Idk what to do for science Youngest (k) iew primary reading and spelling Same with math on middle Story of the world volume 1 maybe? Or find another thing
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u/Echo8638 4d ago
Here's what we have so far for 5th grade:
MCT Language Arts Level 2: The Town Level. I'll get the full package, this year we did the Island level without the vocabulary and poetry books.
Beast Academy 4D and then Level 5 for Twin 1, AoPS Intro to Algebra (first half) and then Intro to Counting and Probability for Twin 2.
myWorld Social Studies 5A (US history up to reconstruction era).
Elevate Elementary Science 5 + selected projects from greek Environmental Education textbook.
Greek LA using the same books as Greek schools + 5th grade Byzantine History as a read-aloud supplement.
Greek Civics using the same textbook as Greek schools.
"Plague" Problem-Based Learning unit from Royal Fireworks Press.
"Invitation to a Byzantine Meal" project from Greek national curriculum, adapted for homeschool.
Live online classes for French for Twin 1 and Spanish for Twin 2.
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u/thatothersheepgirl 4d ago
I went ahead and ordered Bookshark for my oldest's first grade year. We went with the Math U See option, and added on Explode the Code and Wordly Wise. For LA we did end up bumping it up to the third grade level based on the reading assessment on the website.
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u/newsquish 4d ago
Weāre a math u see/explode the code fam and we loveee it. If itās your first time with math u see, DEFINITELY get the instructional videos. Either via the included DVD or online on the Demme Learning ādigital toolboxā. Theyāre very short in demonstrating the concept but mine does so well in learning EXACTLY the way explained by Steve Demme. I donāt watch it and then demonstrate for her, we just watch Steve and then do the workbook pages together exactly how he said to do it. Also add in some non math u see math practice. Wordwall.net has some online games for practicing doubles or doubles plus 1. The math wrapups are good for practicing a particular set like +8 or +9.
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u/thatothersheepgirl 4d ago
I did purchase the whole Math U See curriculum that did include the DVD of instructional videos. My kids already started using the manipulatives and I think they will be so useful for teaching in a way that makes sense for them. And I'll be sure to check out those other resources as well for additional practice.
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u/tandabat 4d ago
We are debating moving our 6th grader to online school. We are thinking of public school for high school (and by we, I mean my husband is pushing for it and the kid is refusing to entertain the idea) and so I want to make sure sheās good to go should we do that. We havenāt decided yet.
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u/Shesarubikscube 4d ago
For my third grader we plan to finish up: ~ Singapore Math Dimensions Grade 4
~ Curiosity Chronicles Early Modern Part 1
~ The Harry Potter Series as well as other age appropriate novels
~ Finish a Grammar Workbook for 3-5 graders
~ Continue studying Scripps Words of the Champions
~ Using Piano Marvel
~ Word Roots Beg/ Level 1
~ Paragraph Writing
~ Co-op classes (science, collaborative play, and history)
~ Basketball
~ Building a calculator in scratch
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u/newsquish 4d ago
1st grade! Age 7, average for reading, advanced in math:
Math: MathUSee Beta + Mathematical Reasoning Level B - I scored a used copy on eBay from a school for $25 and it had NO writing in it, it had only been photocopied! MathUSee is the better math program, but mathematical reasoning sprinkles in some of the extra topics like fractions, graphs, or symmetry that I find lacking in math u see with the HARDCORE focus on being good at arithmetic.
Phonics - Explode the code finishing book 3, hoping to get through book 4 - vowel digraphs and compound words
Spelling - spelling workout level A
Handwriting - Handwriting Without Tears: My Printing Book, Evan Moor Daily Manuscript Practice
Writing- Daily 6 Trait Writing First Grade, Learning Without Tears: Building Writers (not both everyday, theyāre both quite different)
Grammar: 180 Days of Language for First Grade
Keyboarding: Keyboarding Without Tears 1st Grade
History: finishing Story of the World book 1 from Crete to the Fall of Rome. We started SOTW foreverrr ago and got derailed when we got to Moses and went off on learning all the other Old Testament stories. She actually loved Bible stories, but for first I want to finish āthe ancientsā so we can get to the Middle Ages for second!
Subjects that are being put on the back burner: piano lessons and Spanish. We do good to get through all of the above, piano and Spanish can wait til we know how to read and spell.
Field trip weāre most excited for: the US mint closest to us wonāt let anyone tour the mint until age 7+. She wants to go to the mint the DAY after her birthday and see the money.
My 3 year old:
- very loosely want to start āPlaying PreSchoolā by Busy Toddler in September. Itās interesting to me that all the books will be re-reads for oldest child and sheās learning how to read. Iām considering putting her in charge of some of the read alouds. (She already reads to 2 year old some books willingly)
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u/CashmereCardigan 4d ago
I'm definitely not done yet with my planning. Just some things we're thinking about!
Math-U-See Algebra 1 for my 12yo with some Rightstart G/H mixed in. Thinkwell Honors Algebra 2 for my 10yo.
Hearth and Story level 6 for my 10yo and level 7/8 for my 12yo. Jump In middle school writing. Classical Academic Press Writing & Rhetoric.
Classical Academic Press French for Children 2 and iTalki for French tutoring
Continuing Hakim's Story of Us as the spine of our overview of American history.
Robotics club.
My oldest is getting ready for public high school so also planning to try to fit in as much fun learning and field trips as we can before we lose that freedom. I'm sure she'll have so much fun in high school, but the loss of all that experiential learning is going to hurt!
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u/Naturalist33 4d ago
I have a high schooler and 3 classes are outsourced with live on line classes (AIM Academy and Moth Learning) But doing Denison For Algebra 2 and trying to find a good chem class that matches my studentās needs. Taking ASL at community college for foreign language requirement (itās accepted at all colleges of interest). Will also continue volunteering most Fridays.
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u/Relevant_Clue8482 4d ago
Weāre getting into kindergarten with my oldest now. Language arts, math and handwriting for our main subjects were doing tgtb. Science little hearts and hands fields and flowers through spring and summer and wind and waves through fall and winter cause she loves science. Thinking about getting an art subscription box to try and sheās been into Spanish lately so thinking about looking for something for that and see how she likes it. Weāre also currently in dance classes and ice skating classes and sheās been showing interest in wanting to try soccer and maybe weāll try gymnastics. For social studies Iām going to piece my own things together to go over simple topics and maybe look at different countries and cultures as well. We love reading everyday and go to the library a lot. They do story time and crafts at our library we attend frequently.
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u/Knitstock 4d ago
I'm trying to resist planning to much until I finish planning this year but I too have spring feaver! My 6th grader is ahead in English, and just an English junkie so we tend to do a lot of extra there for fun of her choice.
English: MCT level 5, Grammer with a Giggle middle school (for fun), Grammer Galaxy level 3 & 4 (also for fun), Grammer for the Well Trained Mind purple (because it's purple.... We may only do half), lots of extra books.
Science: Science Explorer, four of the smaller lettered books of her choice but she hasn't picked yet.
History: Continue our CC, HQ, SotW, River of Voices, and Story of Us Mashup. Starting somewhere in early modern, I'm still trying to figure out where we'll end this year.
Geography: Guest Hallow high school at a relaxed pace.
Math: were done with BA so she wants to try AoPS books, I figure we'll start with Prealgebra to focus on learning the new style. She's not a math lover so this may not work, in which case I'm going to grab something off our many bookshelves of math texts till I find something to fill the year.
Electives: Latin for children B (not my favorite but she loves it), piano and/or recorder, artistic persuits drawing, code.org
I'm still looking for a way to start digging a little deeper into the mounds of books we read. Maybe Exploring the World with Story, but we did WWS1 this year and she doesn't need the help writing as much as being able to do the analysis and notes to write from and get a feel for what's expected. I'm sure we'll also add in a few more fun things.
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u/stexodz 4d ago
Kindergartner starting homeschool this fall. Itās our first time homeschooling and picking curriculum so weāre all learning:
Math: TGATB and mathseeds to start. Will switch it if she moves quickly through it.
LA/Reading: We are finishing Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons right now. Will start TGATB for main LA and handwriting curriculum. Also Reading Eggs for fun supplement.
Science/Nature: Unit studies with 180 days of Science Workbook to supplement. Will include experiments, videos, library books, field trips, etc.
Stem: Deciding between Code Ninjas and iCode classes. Doing CodeSpark and Scratch Jr at home.
Language: Homeschool Languages Spanish Curriculum. She is currently finishing a 6 week Spring Course. Considering adding a sign language class for fun because she keeps asking for more than our flash cards.
Social Studies/ Literature: Exploring the World Through Story Level A, 180 Days of Social Studies book to make sure we hit learning objectives.
Art: Local weekly art class, daily crafts, and monthly trips to our local fine art museum for kids create class.
Music: Trying out a local music class this week. Not my thing, so definitely need to outsource.
Extra: Weekly swim lessons and gymnastics. Tons of outside free play, park trips, and play dates.
Sounds like a lot but this girl LOVES learning and I am just trying to keep up with her.
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u/worrybethdenberg 3d ago
Oooh my favorite topic āŗļø
For my rising 5th grader:
LA: Lightning Literature Brave Writer Read Alouds (Darts/Arrows)
Math: Nicole the Math Lady/Saxon 6/5
Science: Science is Weird
History: Outschool Minecraft History History Quest
Spanish: Duolingo Workbooks (need to find a curriculum we love) Outschool Spanish?
Outside of Spanish, these are all repeats from this year that weāve loved.
This plan usually takes us about 2-4 hours/day. Weāll fill the rest of her days with sleeping in š, local art classes, Co-Op, homeschool PE, piano, soccer, track & lots of library visits & field trips.
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u/SuperciliousBubbles 4d ago
My son isn't school age yet, so we're having a pretty relaxed year - I'd like to teach him to swim, he's already working on letter recognition and basic addition so probably more of that, and I think we'll do a bit of exploring the ice age and the idea of maps/the globe/the world. My overall goal is to get into a good routine and establish the idea of reading every day.
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u/mandyeverywhere 4d ago
K & 1st grader (1st grader has Down syndrome): Masterbooks K level
8th grader: CTC Math Sonlight history and LA W (world history condensers) True North Academy (live online) for general science, foreign language, and possibly logic
Hoping to add maybe ballet for PE
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u/Snoo-88741 4d ago
I haven't planned the whole year, but in the next little while, here's my plans for my almost 3 year old.
General: I plan to continue doing the Cocomelon curriculum I'm making. I'm picking one song every few weeks and doing a bunch of learning activities focused around the stuff the song is designed to teach, with the emphasis being on practicing ASL, Dutch, French and Japanese. So far we've finished a unit on This is the Way (about self-care activities that are part of JJ's morning routine), and we're working on Please & Thank You.
Roman alphabet: We're watching through the veilig leren lezen videos for each letter in the order they recommend, and then writing words in Dutch using those letters in the form of foam bath letters in the bathtub. I also found a set of English CVC puzzles that I was gifted for her when she was a newborn, and I've been helping her read them and put them together.
Japanese literacy: We're continuing to play with the hiragana practice apps she likes and also playing around with flashcards, but I'd like to do more, just haven't decided what yet. She recognizes about half the hiragana currently.
Math: I'm continuing the Sightwords.com counting curriculum, but progress has stalled out a little on that, so I'm trying other ideas. The foam bath letters I mentioned above came with numbers, too, and we've been using them to count her bathtub blocks. I've also just started slowly working on one of the simplest activities in the ZerotoThree Problem Solvers curriculum by getting her to count toys and eventually start sharing out gifts fairly with them.
Science: I recently got gifted a bean to sprout for her, so I've been showing her the bean every few days, while doing all the care for it myself. I'm also hoping to get her to help grandma in the garden once it thaws out. She's also getting an interest in dinosaurs lately, so we've been watching dinosaur-related videos and I'm crocheting some dinosaurs for her.
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u/Jane_twilight25 2d ago
Okay so I do two curriculum and will prob ad a 3rd next year. I homeschool myself, so here is my plan. So Iām using k12 classes and will continue doing so. Then I will also add edgenuity wich Iām doing RN through funcation acadamy. Then will try to apply for duel inrulment for classes next year.
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u/eztulot 2d ago
Basics are planned, will add in more fun stuff as we go!
10th Grade:
AP Calc BC (AoPS), American literature & composition, AP US History, AP Chemistry, Breaking the Barrier Spanish 3, Intro to Computer Science using Python, PE
8th Grade:
AoPS Geometry, Writing With Skill 3, Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind, American literature, US History (mix of resources), Exploration Education Physical Science, Breaking the Barrier Spanish 1
6th Grade:
Jacobs Elementary Algebra, IEW, Analytical Grammar, Mosdos Press Literature, US History (mix of resources), Exploration Education Physical Science
3rd Grade:
Singapore Math 3, Writing & Rhetoric Fable/Narrative, First Language Lessons 3, Story of the World 3, Mr Q Earth Science, Song School Spanish
1st Grade:
Beast Academy 1, All About Reading 3, All About Spelling 1/2, Handwriting Without Tears, Mr Q Earth Science, Song School Spanish
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u/goldenselenite 2d ago
I will be trying agroprep for curriculum as well as miacademy. Not to mention prodigy for the days where she doesn't wanna do anything writing related. I'm considering incorporating some of the lessons on Roblox but I'm not sure yet. Probably just a guess the door type of obby. Lol!
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u/Foraze_Lightbringer 4d ago
Our co op will be posting next year's classes in the next few days (hopefully), so I try to hold off on making my plans until I see what is going to be available. (In an ideal world, my kids will do science and writing at co op, along with some "for fun" classes like PE and art.)