Our 4th grade homeschool curriculum

Sharing our plan for 4th grade homeschool curriculum! Please remember the fact that I’m NOT a professional at this. We’re figuring it out as we go and it’s our first full 12 months of homeschool after ending most of final 12 months homeschooling. Extra about why we decided to homeschool in this post. In case you want professional recommendation, try my buddy Brittany’s blog!

Hello associates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having an incredible day thus far. We’re formally in back-to-school mode over right here. Liv began final week (eighth grade! I can’t even imagine 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 12 months and the curriculum we’re doing should you’re interested by homeschooling.

I feel it’s price mentioning right here that homeschool isn’t as daunting as I assumed it will 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 frightened about failing her. Now that we’re within the homeschool world, I can let you know that she’s thriving. She’s studying a lot, and we’re capable of customise her plan based mostly on her curiosity and ranges. We’re additionally capable of progress extra shortly, which retains her .

Our 4th grade homeschool curriculum

Right here’s what we’re planning on doing this 12 months, however it might probably 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 instructing 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 task. It’s participating and concise — we adore it.

Studying (half-hour)

I need to preserve studying satisfying, so she picked a e book that we’ll learn collectively and focus on 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 contains image research, memorization, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, commentary, poems, psalms, letters, and sensible utility by inventive writing.

For writing, we’re doing the Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales writing lessons from IEW. It focuses on their Construction and Fashion methodology. Proper now, she’s engaged on studying fables, making key outlines, and narration (with 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, and in addition a lap book on how to draw the United States. She’s excited to start out with that first and label every state, capital, the rivers, and so on.

Science (Fridays solely)

I’m nonetheless engaged on science plans. Final 12 months, the homeschool factor occurred fairly abruptly, so we simply did one science mission every week on Fridays. I’ll in all probability preserve Friday as science day however was desirous about ordering some month-to-month kits. When you’ve got any science package subscription recs, please ship them my approach!

Final 12 months, we did issues like dissecting owl pellets, making an egg drop, and developing a curler coaster.

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

We’ve got a few additional enjoyable issues this 12 months, together with farm faculty, which is someday every week. It’s just for two hours and she or he’ll have the ability to journey horses, assist with the animals, and create artwork on the farm. She additionally has certainly one of day of homeschool parkour courses. 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 associates beneficial it and have been fairly impressed thus far. If 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 ultimately. (I additionally really feel prefer it is smart since Liv has homework day by 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 variety to spend a very long time with me on the telephone. 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?

Probably 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 making an attempt to get them to hear and listen.

We’re capable of end all the pieces 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 fascinating in (like artwork, crocheting, or training the piano), or we will get pleasure from slightly subject journey or outing.

How are you going to earn a living from home and homeschool?

That is the half that I’m nonetheless making an attempt to navigate. I batch most of my content material in the course of the weekend in order that I can concentrate on the children and home stuff as a lot as attainable in the course of the week. I additionally began scheduling shopper calls and podcast interviews when the Pilot is dwelling, as a result of when he’s not on a visit, he’s trainer 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/power/effort, after which when he’s dwelling, I crush myself workwise making an attempt to compensate for all the pieces. Simply must get the hold of this schedule and discover my groove.

Okay associates: what are your kiddos as much as this 12 months? Homeschool mamas: any recommendation as we head into our first full 12 months??

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

Gina