Our New Homeschool Curriculum Picks for 11th and 6th Grades
We all love sharing and seeing what other homeschool families are using for their upcoming homeschool years. Today I’m sharing our new homeschool curriculum picks for 11th and 6th grade. With my second-born graduating in May, my class size is shrinking. In 2008, we started homeschooling with a 1st grader, a toddler, and an infant. We grew to a family of six, continued marching forward on our homeschooling journey, graduated our first-born in 2020, and our second-born in May of 2024.
Homeschool mama, if you are just starting out, let me assure you how amazing this homeschool life is. Stay the course! It’s such a wonderful journey. Yes, I’m a little teary that it’s just the girls and I that will be left around the homeschool table with the boys out in the world doing their thing. But on the other hand, I am excited for the coming school year. It will feel different having just the girls and I anticipate this being a sweet two years with my two girls, before it’s just my youngest and me!
Motherhood really is a bittersweet rollercoaster, but I’m here for it.
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Alright, let’s get to the curriculum, shall we!?
Keep reading for videos on curriculum picks too
OUR HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS FOR 2024-2025: GRADES 11 and 6
I have written many of these curriculum picks posts! If you want to check out all the curriculum we’ve used over the years, you can check out these links:
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- Learning Well Community Curriculum Directory: this is a post with charts full of all the curriculum we’ve used in one spot.
- Need to save money this year? Here are two FULL curriculum plans for under $100 each
- Our Day in the Life from Last Fall
- LAST YEAR: Curriculum picks for 12th, 10th, and 5th Grade
- TWO YEARS AGO: Curriculum Picks for 11th, 9th, and 4th
- Homeschool Curriculum Picks for 9th, 7th, and 2nd Grade
- Our Kindergarten Choices
- Choices for 5th + 7th Grade
IF YOU LOVE TALKING HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM, I LOVE TO SHARE MORE ON MY INSTAGRAM PAGE @OVERATALICIAS
OUR HOMESCHOOL PLANS FOR 2024-2025
Morning Meeting Plans and Resources
We love to start our mornings with a family meeting. 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:
- Daily Calendar: I like to go over what our week looks like on Mondays, so we look over the calendar together.
- Bible:
- We are always working through a book of the Bible. We read several chapters and then discuss.
- We also read one Proverb each day to coincide with the day of the month.
- I grabbed this devotion for each of the girls so we can read this daily as well: Glorifying and Enjoying God: 52 Devotions through the Westminster Shorter Catechism
- I would also like to focus more on Psalms this year and use Marty Machowski’s book, Wonderfull: Ancient Psalms Ever New
- Read Aloud
- World Watch News (we love this!!)
WHAT WE’RE READING THIS YEAR:
I always like to pick our family read alouds for the year, even though it hardly ever goes as planned and we deviate from the plan sometimes. That’s ok! We usually get around to reading most of them! Here are a few fun books I am hoping to read with the girls this year
OUR FAMILY READ ALOUD CHOICES:
- Corrie Ten Boom by Janet and Geoff Benge
- Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
- Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
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AFTER THE MORNING MEETING, OUR WEEKS WILL LOOK LIKE THIS:
- Daily:
- Math lessons
- Language arts
- Electives
- Homeschool band one day/week
- History 2x/week
- Science 2x/week
- 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 11th grader will use:
- Dual Enrollment: College Math
- Mind Benders for High School
My 6th grader will use:
- Saxon
- Math Manipulatives
- Math games
- Mind Benders
High School Electives:
My high schooler will be working on a few elective classes. One with me and at least one other through dual enrollment.
Philosophy
We will read from the book each morning and then watch the lecture through Compass Classroom (we love their courses!)
- The Consequences of Ideas by RC Sproul
- Compass Classroom’s Consequences of Ideas Lectures
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 11th grader will use:
My 6th grader will use:
- Cursive Practice with Catechism Copywork
- Vocabulary from Classical Roots for grade 6
- Spelling Workout
- Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind
HISTORY
Both of my girls will be studying the Middle Ages this year. We’re continuing on with our history cycle and after finishing the Ancients last year, we’re on to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Reformation. 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. Each girl will be studying the same topic at her own level.
For my 11th grader:
For my 6th grader:
- Homeschool in the Woods Middle Ages (We LOVE these studies!)
- Homeschool in the Woods Renaissance and Reformation
- Famous Figures of the Middle Ages
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! As with history, my girls will be studying the same topic: Chemistry!
For my 6th grader:
My 11th grader will use:
We also will use:
- Tinker Crates
- NatureExplorer Guides
- Nature picture books
- Exploring Nature with Children
- Nature Walks + Guides
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.
- Chalk Pastels Membership site–if you want simple art projects that go with basically ANY subject you’re already studying, this is it! Their memberships are a huge value for our family! CLICK HERE for my three TOP reasons we love this membership!
- SQUILT Music Class is also on our list! We love these classes.
- We are also adding in Beautiful Feet Book’s new Music Appreciation course and we can’t wait for that!
EXTRA FUN STUFF
- Homeschool band
- Piano lessons
- American Heritage Girls
- Field Trips
- Doodle Crates
New Curriculum Picks for 6th Grade
New Curriculum Picks for 11th Grade
High School Homeschool Planning Pack
Did you do any foreign language with your high schoolers? If not, just curious why since so many colleges require this. Thank you!
Hi! I would love for you to expand on how you do this. I’m confused on how you use Apologia only twice a week for science. Do you just pick and choose which lessons you do from the book instead of following their schedule? And also, my state requires us to have American History and World History courses for college bound students, how do you accomplish this by only focusing on 1 topic per year? Thank you!! I am still learning how to create my own courses for my high schoolers!