Our Homeschool Curriculum Picks (2024-2025)

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When I asked Instagram if I should do a homeschool curriculum picks for this next year (2024-2025) I didn’t think that I’d get much of a response. However, after a resounding YES, this is our list of homeschool curriculum picks for the 2024-2025 school year and why we picked them.

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Ages and Grades

Wyatt and West are the two that are officially being homeschooled right now. Wyatt is going into 1^st grade and is 6 years old (he will be 7 in March) and West is 4 years old (he will be 5 in October) and is doing another year of preschool.

I honestly do believe that you don’t need to homeschool for preschool. Reading them good books, singing the ABC song, and letting them play is my formula for preschool. However, I speak out of both sides of my mouth on this because I also say buy the preschool curriculum if you want, put them in co-op, and let them learn alongside siblings. But only that’s what you want, they will learn just fine without formal homeschooling!

West would be exceptionally upset if he was not doing school alongside his brother. So he is doing his own set of curriculum and I do consider him officially homeschooled at this time.

See me explain our homeschool picks starting at 12:21, “Organizing Homeschool Stuff”

Homeschool Curriculum Picks

Get ready for our homeschool curriculum picks! We certainly are not going to hold tight to these as the year progresses! If they work then great, but if we need to adjust according to the unique needs of our kids, then we will! I hope by sharing these, you will be find some valuable curriculum resources!

My Father’s World Curriculum

Last year we chose My Father’s World, God’s Creation from A to Z as Wyatt’s kindergarten curriculum and West’s preschool curriculum. It was honestly an ideal curriculum to dual teach preschool and kindergarten. Some adjustments needed to be made along the way, but most of the adjustments were simply expecting different results from my 4-year-old versus my 5-year-old.

1st Grade Curriculum Choice

This year we are continuing with My Father’s World curriculum with Learning God’s Story, which is their 1st-grade curriculum. Unfortunately, 1st grade and preschool don’t mix as well as kindergarten and preschool did, so my adjustments are quite a bit more vast.

The 1st-grade curriculum is a complete and easy-to-teach curriculum with a heavy focus on phonics and a Bible-based reading program. However, Wyatt really didn’t connect with the way My Father’s World teaches reading, so after a lot of chatting with my husband and doing some online assessments we decided to pair MFW with All About Reading. This means I’ll be parring back the 1st-grade curriculum as I replace some things with the All About Reading program.

The 1st grade categories in the Learning God’s Story include:

• Music & Art Appreciation
• Drawing Skills
• Spiritual Growth & Language Arts
• Science
• Reading Aloud
• Hands-on Math

Preschool Curriculum Choice

As I’ve already hinted, West will be coming alongside Wyatt with the 1st-grade curriculum. I find it best to teach to the highest level in our home because the younger ones pick up on so much as they tag along. Obviously, that comes with some adjustments.

Both West and Wyatt will be doing the Bible notebook, which entails writing and sketching Bible stories. My preschooler will be dictating back to me and my 1st grader will be working on his writing skills. These are the types of adjustments I make when teaching a curriculum for both boys in different age categories.

Westy will also be working through parts of My Father’s World Voyage of Discovery. We will mainly be focusing on the “I am Learning” book that the students complete with fun art projects and letter recognition activities.

If you are interested in purchasing from My Father’s World, I’d love it if you’d use my rewards program link.

All About Reading

I have never heard of someone not succeeding with the All About Reading program. The curriculum is gentle and comprehensive. After taking the online assessment for Wyatt and West, I realized that they both needed to go through the Pre-Reading program. I think Wyatt will wiz through it and start the Level 1 program sometime in 2025.

What I love already about the program is the fun way in which it teaches reading. It feels like play, but the child actually is learning essential pre-reading skills. Don’t skip getting the zebra puppet! That is the part that makes it so fun!

Homeschool Co-Op

One thing I absolutely love about homeschooling is the ability to assess each child and make decisions based on their whole person. Last year we opted out of putting the kids in a homeschool co-op, but this year we are going for it.

West will be in the preschool/kindergarten program and Wyatt will be taking Spanish, Art, STEM, Music, Elementary PE, and Early American History.

You can check out more about the homeschool co-op we have chosen through the button below.

Homeschool Planner Template

Last year I sold my homeschool digital planner on Etsy, but this year I’m really not up for formatting it for selling, so I thought it would be fun to offer it here on this blog post as a template! This is a template so you will need to adjust it for your own use.

The planner has 153 planning pages with calendars and lesson plan areas. I never was able to find a homeschool planner that I liked, so this was my solution. Enjoy it because it really is a huge resource!

Looking Forward to the School Year

I can’t finish up this summary of our homeschool picks without mentioning some of our favorite at-home resources. You can find a full list of many of our favorite homeschool materials in our preschool resource post, but here are three of our most used items.

• Yoto Player
• Wooden Calendar
• Sand Tray

Does this all seem like too much for a 1st grader and preschooler? Undoubtedly it is. I have always found as a teacher that it’s better to have too much than not enough and I’ve taken that mindset into my homeschooling with me. Will we get through everything we have planned, nope, and most likely we will change things up as we pivot according to the needs of our children’s whole person.

That’s one of the beauties of homeschooling, we get to pivot according to the unique needs of our children!

What are your homeschool curriculum picks for this year? I’d love to hear!

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