It has been a couple years since I shared our homeschool curriculum so I thought I would give an update.  Some of it is still the same as before, but last year and this year we did feel it was necessary to make a few changes.  This will mostly be a brief overview so feel free to check out my original post for more of the details.  I will try and answer a few of the questions about why we switched the things we switched. 

8th Grade  (My oldest daughter’s current year)

Math- Teaching Text Books- We have loved this since we started!

Language Arts- Switched on Schoolhouse (SOS) purchased through Alpha Omega Publications

Science- Apologia

History- The Good and the Beautiful (family style)

Shown below is my daughter’s Apologia 8th grade science.  Through 7th grade she still did science  through SOS.  She was just not liking it so we tried out something new this year.  Science is not her favorite so the verdict is still out on what she thinks!  This curriculum does have lots of experiments and I did purchase the experiment kit through Rainbow Resources.

7th Grade (what my oldest did last year)

Math- Teaching Text Books

Language Arts- Switched on Schoolhouse (SOS)

Science- SOS

History- The Good and the Beautiful

Shown below is our History Year 2 that we are working on this year.  Last year was the first year we tried this out, did Year 1,  and we loved it so continued it again this year.  It is kind of the dream history curriculum!  This is family style and perfect as more of my kids join in so I am not having to sit with multiple little ones.  My daughter still did SOS for history through grade 6.  It was becoming very hard and dry and we felt like we needed a change.  

 

6th Grade (what my oldest did)

Math- Teaching Text Books

Language Arts- SOS

Science- SOS

History- SOS

5th Grade (what my second daughter is currently doing)

Math- Teaching Text Books

Language Arts- SOS

Science- Apologia  (Astronomy)

History- The Good and the Beautiful

To see what we originally did for 5th grade you can see my original post.  When we switched History and Science for my oldest everyone got switched.  So far I have really like the Apologia science for the elementary level.  It is designed for grades K-6 and you pick a different course to study each year.  They chose Astronomy this year. My 5th and 1st grader do this together. I am able to go over with them what they are to do each day to get them started, and then that frees up time for me to work on Preschool with my youngest.  I also purchased the audio recording, along with the text book so they can follow along.  I figured that would help them focus better when I am not in the room, and it has worked out great. I purchased the experiment kit for them too.  My 1st grader has the Jr. Notebook Journal (not pictured).  

 

2nd, 3rd, and 4th Grade

See my original post except science has been changed to Apologia, and History changed to The Good and the Beautiful.

1st Grade ( what my oldest son is currently doing)

Math- Lifepacs purchased through Alpha Omega Publications

Language Arts- Lifepacs

Science- Apologia

History- The Good and the Beautiful

I mentioned in my original post that I would probably no longer use Singapore Math in 1st grade.  I was right and actually chose to use Lifepacs math for Kindergarten as well with my son knowing I would not be using it for first grade.

Kindergarten

See my original post for all the details except I changed math last year with my son to Lifepacs Math.

3’s and 4’s Preschool

See my original post for all the details as that is still the same!

 

If you are wondering how I fit it all in and schedule my day, see my post on how I schedule.  Below is a copy of our updated schedule if you are interested!

I hope this helped to give you some ideas!

OUR HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM…

updated!