2025-2026 Curriculum Choices
I can’t believe I’m entering my 3rd year of homeschooling my oldest! We have both loved learning at home, but we continue to take it year by year, child by child. Next year, I’m anticipating having a 4th grader and 1st grader at home with me which is wild! Below you’ll find my plans for my rising 3rd grader. You’ll notice we are continuing all of our curriculum from last year. Abeka for Math, BJU Press for Language Arts, Christian Light Education for Reading, The Good and the Beautiful for Science, and Notgrass for Social Studies. There are so many great curriculums to choose from, but we enjoyed all of our choices last year. For the sake of consistency and linear learning, we kept everything the same and are thrilled with that choice! I hope my selections below help guide you in yours.
Bible/Morning Time
Answers Bible Curriculum, Year 2 (3x a week)
K-1 Workbook (Saylor)
2-3 Workbook (Mills)
Daily Devotional — The Wonder of Creation
The Ology — We will read and study one truth each week.
Math (5x a week):
Abeka, Arithmetic 4 (Mills)
Abeka, Arithmetic 1 (Saylor)
We work one grade ahead.
Handwriting/Typing
Handwriting Without Tears — Cursive Handwriting
Reading (5x a week)
Christian Light Education, 3rd grade
Independent Reading (20 minutes per day)
Shared Reading
Science (3x a week):
Social Studies (3x a week):
Notgrass, Our Star Spangled Story
Other
You might notice our artist and composer study look familiar. It’s because we didn’t get to it last year since we were catching up from the previous year. Now, we’ve finally figured out how to incorporate our artist and composer studies into our year by intentionally scheduling time for them!
Piano — Hoffman Academy
Composer Study — We will be using A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra to study Mozart & Beethoven.
Artist Study — We will study Georges Seurat & Wassily Kandinsky.
Poetry — We read from different poetry books then select one to be typed and printed. We then glue these in our notebook alongside artist and composer study notes. This year, we’ll be reading from Shel Silverstein’s “Falling Up”.
Below I’ve shared our anticipated weekly schedule. I’ve kept in mind that I play tennis matches on Mondays, Matt and the boys play golf on Wednesdays, and my littles still benefit from a nap/rest time. While some afternoons will be spent playing with friends or heading off to a sports practice, I’ve left our afternoons open for plenty of quiet time, independent play, and reading. All in all, this schedule is a guide for our days of learning. You can’t quite predict how long each lesson will take each day, but knowing we have from 8:30-11:00 to complete core subjects and piano is what’s important to me. I’ve never typed out such a specific schedule, but knowing that I plan to homeschool two children next year, I think a formal plan will be helpful. This is our test run, and I may find that the schedule needs editing! My hope is that I’ve allotted more time than necessary for our learning so that our days can freed up for more fun and play! I hope the schedule below inspires you as you create your daily and weekly schedules.
