Homeschool Curriculum choosing homeschool curriculum

Through our many years of homeschooling, I’ve had the privilege of using many different curriculum, some because I thought it would be the perfect match for our family, some because I was getting to try it out to share with ya’ll. I don’t know about you, but I find it immensely helpful to see how other homeschool moms like a particular curriculum, or materials, and often use it to make my curriculum buying decisions.

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Our yearly homeschool curriculum picks

Each year I write a post sharing what I think we’ll be using for the year, now almost each year, part of the way through I change something.

Kindergarten homeschool picks
First-grade homeschool picks
Second-grade homeschool picks
Third-grade homeschool picks
Fourth-grade homeschool picks, apparently, I never wrote about this
Fifth-grade homeschool picks
Sixth-grade homeschool picks
Seventh-grade homeschool picks
Eight-grade homeschool picks
Ninth-grade homeschool picks
Tenth-grade homeschool picks

General homeschool curriculum awesomeness

This is my catch-all for those things that aren’t a particular subject area but are still homeschool related.

Homeschooling What to Do When You Want to Quit
Dream Pad pillow (this has helped both my ADHD daughter and myself with sleep and concentration ability)
Typekids Online Typing Course
Bridgeway Homeschooling Academy
Ultimate Guide to Brain Breaks
Enchanted Homeschool Mom member site
Homeschooling Preschool (not a curriculum, but what we did for preschool)

Bible homeschool curriculum reviews

We’ve used lots of different Bible resources, and it’s one of my favorite resources to teach, so I like to try all sorts of stuff.

Fine Arts homeschool curriculum reviews

Fine Arts is an area I struggle with, while I enjoy both of them, I am not naturally gifted at teaching the subject. So, I am quite happily using great music and art curriculum others have created.

Foreign Language homeschool curriculum reviews

I have no natural ear for foreign languages, I was quite happy to take sign language in college and not have to mangle accents, so I’m always looking for more ways to learn a new language.

History and Geography homeschool curriculum reviews

I hate the term social studies, I don’t know why, so I’m calling this history and geography, even if it’s bulkier. There are a plethora of great homeschool history curriculum, and there are a few really good homeschool geography curriculum, of which I’ve only tried one or two.

Geography curriculum

History curriculum reviews

Math homeschool curriculum reviews

In school, I hated math until I had a gifted math teacher in junior high, at which I discovered how much fun math can be.

Reading and Writing homeschool curriculum reviews

It’s taken me several tries to find reading and writing homeschool curriculum I liked, a lot of tries, I found stuff great for others, but not me. But, each new curriculum was a new learning experience.

Reading and Spelling curriculum

Scheduling All About Reading
All About Spelling
Sing, Spell, Read, Write
Lexia Reading
Adventures in Reading Zig Zag Zebra
Books Made into Movies (technically not a curriculum, but it’s what I’m using with my older kids)
Seven Sisters Curriculum
Ultimate Homeschooling Booklist (also not a curriculum, but useful for reading lists)
Pathways 2.0

Grammar and Writing curriculum

English from the Roots Up
Masterbrooks Bible and English Grammar
WITS tiles
Applied Grammar
Classical Copywork
The Write Start
Cover Story
Byline- I apparently need to write this, and it isn’t written like I thought

Science homeschool curriculum reviews

In order of favorite homeschool subjects to teach science is my third (after Bible and history), and I love to try out new homeschool science curriculum.