4th and 6th Grade Curriculum Choices for the 2020-2021 School Year

My 4th and 6th grade girls will be using a lot of the same materials this year with different levels when appropriate such as language arts, math. and handwriting.  We will be using some curriculum that is familiar to us and some that will be brand new.  We are excited to see what the year will bring!

One of my goals for Emmie (4th grade) is to get her writing more.  We will be working on simple papers in language arts and keeping a notebook of sorts for history/geography that she will have to write the answers to questions in .  She wanted to learn more cursive writing (she knows some of the basics) so I bought a cursive handwriting book for her.  Also last year she struggled with some of our art lessons because she did not think she did them well enough.  This year I would like to see her confidence grow a bit more in that area so we will switch from just a drawing program to doing a variety of art projects.

Lily is very artistic but strongly dislikes math and has struggled with it.  We switched to a different math curriculum this year after the children requested something new that will hopefully help her.  She is a very good natural speller so she does not have a spelling curriculum that she uses.  She loves to read, write, and draw, and make any kind of crafts.

I am waiting for a few things to arrive in the mail and one to be released from the company.  Our expected start date is August 24th.

Our choices for the 2020-2021 school year include:


Bible: We will continue reading from the New Testament
Math: Teaching Textbooks
History/Geography: Notgrass Our 50 States (this is brand new from Notgrass and recommended for grades 1-4 but I really think Lily will enjoy it too.  They also will be listening in on the readings from The Mystery of History Vol II from Bright Ideas Press
Science: Master Books Elementary Zoology 
Language Arts: Lightning Literature

Art: ARTistic Pursuits
Art History: HiGASFY 

Latin: Visual Latin from Compass Classroom

Handwriting: A Reason for Handwriting


Spelling/Reading (Emmie): All About Reading/Spelling






Happy Homeschooling!