Our New Curriculum for 12th and 7th Grade: 2025-26

We are at back to homeschool time once again and I’m here to share our new curriculum for 2025-2026 for 12th and 7th grade! Another senior–how can it be?! If you’re new year, we have four kids and two have graduated from our homeschool so far. This has been the most incredible ride and I have loved it so much. Another senior is a sad thing in some ways–I miss it! But in other ways, what a wonderful gift!

In this post, I’m laying out exactly what the girls and I will be doing for homeschool this year, curriculum-wise, what our days will look like, and lots of other resources that might help you plan your year too.

OUR HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS FOR 2025-2026: GRADES 12 and 7

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OUR HOMESCHOOL PLANS FOR 2025-2026

Morning Meeting Plans and Resources

We love to start our mornings with a family meeting. This happens with everyone around the table, and around 9am. Here’s what we’ll cover in our Morning Meetings this year, we won’t do all of these things each day, but here are the resources we’ll use:

  • Bible: we start every morning this way. A chapter from the current book we’re reading from and usually a few Psalms as well. We also read one Proverb each day to coincide with the day of the month. Sometimes we will journal for a few minutes after our readings.
  • Catechism: Glorifying and Enjoying God: 52 Devotions through the Westminster Shorter Catechism
  • World Watch News (we love this!!)
  • Daily Calendar: I like to go over what our week looks like on Mondays, so we look over the calendar together.
  • Shakespeare reading
  • Logic puzzles
  • Read Aloud
  • Handcraft** new idea, and I’m super excited about it!

This year, I’m SUPER excited to add in a handcraft to our Morning Meetings while we listen to our read aloud. While we listen, I plan to have myself and each of the girls work on embroidery stitching. We each got kits from Clever Poppy–beginner kits that show how to do all kinds of different stitches–and I am so excited to add this in!

AFTER THE MORNING MEETING, OUR WEEKS WILL LOOK LIKE THIS:

  • Daily:
    • Math lessons
    • Language arts
    • Electives
  • Homeschool band one day/week
  • History 4x/week
  • Science 1 week/term
  • Art 1x/week

OUR HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS BY SUBJECT:

MATH + LOGIC

We love doing logic each day in our homeschool. Sometimes we do this in the morning during our Morning Meeting. Other times, we do this instead of a math lesson or in addition to. We use a combination of workbooks and games.

We use Saxon Math for grades 1st-8th and then sometimes into the high school years. Nicole the Math Lady is an amazing supplement to help teach the math lessons. We love that!

We also use My Math Assistant to help make grading math easier!

If you’re interested in trying out Nicole the Math Lady for free, you can try her 7-day free trial! I hope you love her as much as we do!

My 12th grader will use:

My 7th grader will use:

High School Electives:

Worldview

We will read from the book each morning and then watch the lecture through Compass Classroom (we love their courses!)

New CURRICULUM PICKS FOR LANGUAGE ARTS:

The language arts umbrella in our homeschool is a big one. I bundle several different subjects under it to keep things straight in my mind. Handwriting, grammar, spelling, reading and literature, and vocabulary are are found here in this box.

My 12th grader will do:

  • Writing Composition Dual Enrollment class

My 7th grader will use:

  • Daily Grammar
  • Language Lessons for a Living Education by Master Books
  • Spelling Workout

HISTORY

Both of my girls will be studying the early American History this year. We’re continuing on with our history cycle and after finishing the Middle Ages, this year we’re taking on early exploration, the Founding Fathers, and the founding of our great country. Even though my kids have a span of ages, I still like to have everyone studying the same thing. It helps to make things in the home cohesive even with the varying ages. This year, they will both be using the same history course and I am really excited about that!

For my 12th and 7th grader:

I absolutely love these courses because they incorporate rich lectures, writing assignments, projects, and the girls will each make a portfolio with entries for each lesson. They are some of our favorite courses for high school and middle school!

In addition, my 12th grader will do Compass Classroom’s Live class on American Government

LITERATURE

This year, I made a book list for each girl that coincide with what they’re studying in history. I thought it would be fun to add these books to what they were already doing and add some layers to their history study. So my 12th grader will earn a literature credit in addition to her history credit. (I don’t keep track of credits in middle school.)

For my 12th Grader:

  1. Collected Poems by Anne Bradstreet
  2. Jonathan Edward Sermons
  3. Last of the Mohicans
  4. Declaration of Independence
  5. US Constitution
  6. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
  7. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  8. Democracy in America by Alexis de Toquville
  9. Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  10. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
  11. Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
  12. The Red Badge of Courage
  13. Gone with the Wind (my favorite book!)
  14. The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren
  15. A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

For my 7th Grader:

  1. Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
  2. The Last of the Mohicans
  3. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  4. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
  5. Sign of the Beaver
  6. Hero Tales from American History: Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt
  7. Huck Finn
  8. Across Five Aprils
  9. Little Women
  10. Up from Slavery

SCIENCE + NATURE

I am not a great science mom, I fully admit it! But we have done some really amazing science studies together. Read about it here and here!  This year, the girls are doing completely different things for science.

For my 7th grader:

We are going to have a lighter year of science. She LOVES cats so she wanted to do a unit on felines–ha! So we are going to just take one week per term and do a deep dive on some type of science topic. We are also going to be doing nature classes, as always!

My 12th grader will use:

Apologia has a brand-new course this year on Forensics! This looks so fascinating and fun! I’ll be sharing a review in the coming weeks.

We also will use:

ART + MUSIC

Art and music are my favorites! I almost always make my own project right alongside the kids when we do our art. Usually we find time to do an art project on a few Friday afternoons each month. Here are a few resources we use.

And this year we are incorporating Classical Encounters music study of classical music and art! I am SO excited for this new addition!

For Art this year, we are adding in an excellent new course for high schoolers by Yellow Spot Sun. This curriculum incorporates wonderfully challenging art tutorials and lessons PLUS art history lessons that I’ve learned a ton from already!

EXTRA FUN STUFF

  • Homeschool band
  • Piano lessons
  • American Heritage Girls
  • Field Trips
  • Doodle Crates

Curriculum Videos:

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One Comment

  1. So excited to try the new highschool art program! Are you doing read alouds with both girls? Or does the worldview class take its place. I’m just trying to figure out how much/what I want to do with my last student! 😭

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