Our 4th grade homeschool curriculum

Sharing our plan for 4th grade homeschool curriculum! Please remember that I’m NOT a professional at this. We’re figuring it out as we go and it’s our first full yr of homeschool after ending most of final yr homeschooling. Extra about why we decided to homeschool in this post. In case you want professional recommendation, try my buddy Brittany’s blog!

Hello mates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having an incredible day to this point. We’re formally in back-to-school mode over right here. Liv began final week (eighth grade! I can’t even consider it) and we’re resuming homeschool as we speak.

For as we speak’s publish, I wished to share a bit extra about our plan for this yr and the curriculum we’re doing in case you’re inquisitive about homeschooling.

I believe it’s value mentioning right here that homeschool is just not as daunting as I believed it could be, particularly once we have been first contemplating it. All of us need the very best for our children, and I used to be actually apprehensive about failing her. Now that we’re within the homeschool world, I can inform you that she’s thriving. She’s studying a lot, and we’re in a position to customise her plan based mostly on her curiosity and ranges. We’re additionally in a position to progress extra shortly, which retains her .

Our 4th grade homeschool curriculum

Right here’s what we’re planning on doing this yr, however it may possibly all the time be modified or adjusted as wanted.

Math (half-hour)

We’re persevering with with Saxon Math and Nicole the Math Lady as a result of P loves her and she or he does an unimaginable job educating the Saxon classes. Her software program additionally takes care of grading, so P will simply enter her solutions into the platform and obtain a grade for every project. It’s partaking and concise — we like it.

Studying (half-hour)

I need to hold studying satisfying, so she picked a guide that we’ll learn collectively and talk about as we transfer alongside. We’re beginning with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Writing + grammar (half-hour)

For grammar, we’re nonetheless utilizing Masterbooks, which is a faith-based curriculum. It consists of image examine, memorization, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, remark, poems, psalms, letters, and sensible software by way of artistic writing.

For writing, we’re doing the Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales writing lessons from IEW. It focuses on their Construction and Type technique. Proper now, she’s engaged on studying fables, making key outlines, and narration (having the ability to retell the story utilizing her notes).

I ordered the 4th grade books final semester and when she finishes these, we’ll head into the fifth grade books.

We’re additionally engaged on one analysis paper every quarter, based mostly on an curiosity. Her first one goes to be about bullfighting after our journey to the Bullfighting Museum in Sevilla.

Social research (half-hour)

I’ve ordered a few historical past books to work by way of, and likewise a lap book on how to draw the United States. She’s excited to begin with that first and label every state, capital, the rivers, and so forth.

Science (Fridays solely)

I’m nonetheless engaged on science plans. Final yr, the homeschool factor occurred fairly abruptly, so we simply did one science mission every week on Fridays. I’ll in all probability hold Friday as science day however was fascinated about ordering some month-to-month kits. When you have any science package subscription recs, please ship them my means!

Final yr, we did issues like dissecting owl pellets, making an egg drop, and developing a curler coaster.

Artwork/enjoyable/PE/additional (A few occasions in the course of the week)

We now have a few additional enjoyable issues this yr, together with farm faculty, which is sooner or later every week. It’s just for two hours and she or he’ll be capable to experience horses, assist with the animals, and create artwork on the farm. She additionally has one in all day of homeschool parkour lessons. Between these two issues and her membership basketball practices, she nonetheless will get the chance to be round different children and play on a weekly foundation, and I’m grateful for that.

Homework:

We began utilizing Khan Academy after a few good mates advisable it and have been fairly impressed to this point. Whenever you homeschool, there’s actually no want for homework, however I wished P to remain within the groove of getting a *little* homework as a result of the plan is for her to return to in-person faculty finally. (I additionally really feel prefer it is sensible since Liv has homework every single day.)

For homework, she’s doing 20 minutes of Khan Academy Math after which 15-20 minutes of studying, grammar, or coding.

Some homeschool FAQs

How did you discover a homeschool curriculum?

Brittany was so sort to spend a very long time with me on the cellphone. She requested about P’s pursuits and shared concepts. She made homeschooling really feel WAY much less intimidating and I’m so grateful for her recommendation. She’s additionally homeschooled their children their complete lives, which makes me hopeful in case P doesn’t return to in-person faculty subsequent week.

How lengthy does it take to homeschool?

Essentially the most lovely factor about homeschool is that it’s 1:1 targeted consideration, so that you don’t want almost as a lot time. SO a lot of in-person faculty is spent wrangling children and attempting to get them to pay attention and listen.

We’re in a position to end every thing we have to do for the day in about two hours, which leaves the remainder of the day open. She will use this time to persue issues she’s attention-grabbing in (like artwork, crocheting, or training the piano), or we are able to get pleasure from just a little subject journey or outing.

How will you do business from home and homeschool?

That is the half that I’m nonetheless attempting to navigate. I batch most of my content material in the course of the weekend in order that I can concentrate on the youngsters and home stuff as a lot as potential in the course of the week. I additionally began scheduling shopper calls and podcast interviews when the Pilot is house, as a result of when he’s not on a visit, he’s instructor Dad and might take over the homeschool duties.

I simply really feel like I’m transferring at 1000mph as a result of solo parenting takes full focus/consideration/vitality/effort, after which when he’s house, I crush myself workwise attempting to atone for every thing. Simply have to get the cling of this schedule and discover my groove.

Okay mates: what are your kiddos as much as this yr? Homeschool mamas: any recommendation as we head into our first full yr??

Hope you’ve gotten an incredible day and I’ll see you quickly!
xo

Gina