Homeschool Update 2025-2026: 4th Grade

Here is a wrap-up of my second oldest child's curriculum for this past school year. 

C., age 10 

Math

• Textbook: Jacobs Geometry
• The Great Courses: Geometry: An Interactive Journey to Mastery with James S. Tanton
• Khan Academy High School Geometry
• Life of Fred: Ice Cream
• Life of Fred: Jellybeans
• Life of Fred: Kidneys 

English

• Paragraph assignments from Jensen's Format Writing (2002)
• Sentence Diagramming 3 
• Editor in Chief 2 
• Vocabulary from Classical Roots B
• Easy Grammar 

Science 

• BFSU Volume 2
• Cells: Building Blocks of Life by Alvin Silverstein
• Forces and Motion by Alvin Silverstein 

History 

• The World in Ancient Times series 
• various Great Courses lectures 

Music

• Denes Agay Book 2
• The Great Courses: How to Play Piano with Pamela D. Pike 
• "Sonatina" on piano 
• Alto recorder part for "The Stars and Stripes Forever" 
• 50 Graded Studies for Recorder by Paul Harris and Sally Adams

Art

• Concordia University, Grades 5-8
• Knitting 
• Rainbow loom 
• Art contests with E.
• Coloring with markers

Religion

• New St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism
• Advent wreath
• Weekly Mass
• Monthly TLM

Latin

• So You Really Want to Learn Latin? Book 1 (and videos) by Nicholas Oulton 

Read-at-Home Mom Report: April/May 2026

April Favorites

• Teenage Wasteland by Anne Tyler
• The Catbird Seat by James Thurber 
• The Giver by Lois Lowry 
• The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith 

May Favorites 

• The Last Song of the World by Joseph Fasano 
• The Shippers by Katherine Center 
• The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez
• Chasing the Clouds Away by Debbie Macomber 

April Read-Aloud

• Mission to Marathon by Geoffrey Trease 

May Read-Aloud 

• Coot Club by Arthur Ransome 

M. (girl, 12)

April 

• The Giver by Lois Lowry 
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 

May 

• The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

C. (girl, 10)

April 

• The Horse and his Boy by C.S. Lewis 

May 

• The Three Brothers of Ur by J.G. Fyson
• The Journey of the Eldest Son by J.G. Fyson
• Meet the Austins by Madeleine L'Engle (read-aloud with me)

E. (girl, 8)

April 

• Robert Fulton and the Steamboat by Ralph Nading Hill 
• Leopard's Prey by Leonard Wibberley

May 

• Red Pawns by Leonard Wibberley 
• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (read-aloud with me)

R. (boy, 6)

April 

• Freddy's Cousin Weedly by Walter Brooks
• The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 
• Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton 

May 

• Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne (read-aloud with me and A.)
• Mossflower by Brian Jacques 

A. (girl, 6)

April 

• Three Boys and a Lighthouse by Nan Hayden Agle 
• The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll by Edward Ardizzone 

May 

• Sophie Mouse books 5, 6, 7, and 8 
• Two Times the Fun by Beverly Cleary 
• Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Horse in the House by Erica Silverman
• Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne (read-aloud with me and R.)

Dad

April

• Underrunners by Margaret Mahy 
• House of the Glimmering Light by Jane Shaw

May 

• Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
• Red Planet by Robert Heinlein (audio in the car)