Come back here to find activities, lesson plans, and book recommendations as we homeschool Pre-K through Middle School. I’ll keep a link to an always-being-updated document at the top of this page where you can find all resources I’ve come across. Some we’ve used in our home and some I’ve looked into and thought looked awesome (but there’s no way to use every awesome resource available!).
The document is sorted so that the first few pages are essentially a brain dump of links and a short summary of each link. Following that you’ll see the links organized by whether they are a full curriculum, a unit study, a single subject specific resource, or maybe it’s a link to some great online games! Like I said, it will always be changing and updating, so bookmark this page on your computer or phone!
What we’re currently using…
Our curriculum changes from time to time, depending on each person’s learning styles, interests, and our current schedule. Here’s what books and websites we’re using at the moment. We don’t use every book every day. Some days, our school time may just be one or two subjects and some days we spend much more time in group read aloud because we just can’t put the book down!
I am including links for anything that can be ordered. Those link may be affiliate links, which just means I may get a small commission for sharing the resource with you, but you won’t pay any extra.
I wanted a journal to help my kids learn scripture by repetition while working on their handwriting. (Bonus points if it had some assorted activities mixed in). Since I didn’t see exactly what I was looking for, I put together one myself and it is available to purchase on Amazon.
If you haven’t heard of McGuffey’s Readers, you should go look up the history behind them, it’s pretty fascinating! These books have been used since the early/mid 1800s to teach both reading skills and moral values. We use them in our home to practice reading and spelling. You can download these books for free on Project Gutenberg or buy physical copies on Amazon or ThriftBooks (and if you use this ThriftBooks link to start an account and spend $30, we both earn a free book!)
We’ve been using Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool in some capacity since we started homeschooling in 2021. Each year I may adjust which subjects we use, but we really like the set up of Easy Peasy. You can use the courses entirely online or entirely offline. I set up MyEP for each kid and myself, so that I’m also learning with them. This page is primarily K-7, but they have a high school page as well. I created a login for myself because there are courses included where I want to learn more (or have a refresher). This year we will likely use EP more for extra practice or if there is an extra subject one of the kids want to study (Biblical Hebrew is on my list!)
Our boys are all using The Good and The Beautiful for Math this year. We have been using Easy Peasy for math in the past, but we decided to find a little more hands-on/low-screen approach to learning math and it’s been working well! (EP also has the option to go screen free, but I felt like the explanations in TGATB were “sticking” a little better for the boys). TGATB has free downloads of their Math and Language Arts curriculums for K-7/8, or you can buy the curriculum already printed from their website.
I searched a while to find the same textbook I used in high school for French, and I managed to find it and the Teacher’s book on ThriftBooks! I don’t have access to the audio and video resources that we had (I likely still have the cassette tapes…but no player for them ha!) BUT I can find plenty of similar resources on YouTube. I just got the Teacher’s edition of the audio workbook pages from ThriftBooks today, so we can do the listening activities together as well! I found the workbook scanned online at some point, but the link for that no longer works. If you were planning to use this option, you could always find a used copy of the workbook and use it as a guide for creating your own practice pages.
This is a small workbook that primarily focuses on vocabulary, so no sentence structure or verb conjugations. It’s under $5 on Amazon, and it’s nice little mini dictionary/workbook for the kids.
We’re in Book 4 of The Story of the World. This series reads you through history as if you’re watching it take place in front of you. As we come to events or people who really catch the kids’ interest, we’ll pause for a while and dig more into that topic with other reading, documentaries, or activities. When we finish Book 4, the kids have already asked if we can cycle back around to Book 1! The topics we’ll be covering in Rooted Together this year line up with what is in Book 2, so we plan to read through that book again this year with our cousins.
When we read aloud together, we’re reading the first book in The Wingfeather Saga series: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. We’ve been working our way through the Narnia series, but took a short break from that world to visit this world. After book 1, we will probably go finish Narnia before we look for the rest of the series on ThriftBooks or Amazon. (We haven’t had much luck finding these at our library).
We just finished a unit study on Microbiology through For the Love of Homeschooling. I think the next science based unity study we will do is one based on First Aid, foraging, and survival skills. I purchased the unity study bundle from For the Love of Homeschooling a few months ago and the bundle is no longer available.
We are about to start our second year in our homeschool community, Rooted Together. Last year, we studied a variety of topics with some of our friends in a Unit Study format. This year, we’ve expanded to include more classes for each age range. We pull curriculum from a variety of resources, and have written a few of the courses ourselves.
For my youngest’s preschool this year, we’ll continue to focus mostly on learning through play. When she wants to do “work” like her brothers, I’ll either pull a lesson from the Let’s Play.Learn.Grow curriculum that I bought when my two oldest were little, or I’ll print her a workbook from Miniature Masterminds.
Each boy also has a Research Journal made by The Thinking Tree that they work in occasionally. Some people use these as the base for their curriculums, but we use them more as free time research on topics they enjoy. The ones we’re using right now are the Fun-Schooling with Minecraft Journal, Artist’s Fun-Schooling Journal, and Reptiles & Amphibians Journal. Each journal has pages set up to guide you through researching a topic related to the book’s subject using books, movies, and current events as resources.
Lucas Corner Farmhouse 