Homeschool Update 2025-2026: 2nd Grade

This is what my third daughter used for school this past year. 

E., Age 8

Math

• Khan Academy 8th Grade Math
• Singapore 4A and 4B Reviews 
• Life of Fred: Farming
• Life of Fred: Goldfish
• Life of Fred: Honey 

English 

• Vocabulary from Classical Roots 4 and 5
• Daily Grams 
• Sentence Diagramming Beginning and Level 1 

Science

• The Fairyland of Science by Arabella Burton Buckley
• The Private Eye by Kerry Ruef 

History 

By Genevieve Foster: 

• The World of William Penn 
• The World of Captain John Smith
• George Washington's World
• The Year of the Horseless Carriage 
• Abraham Lincoln's World 

Music 

• Denes Agay Book 1
• "Stars and Stripes Forever" soprano recorder 
• Recorder Time: Sweet Tunes Book 2

Art

• Concordia University course, grades 5-8 
• Rainbow Loom
• Crochet 
• Drawing contests with C.
• 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 

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 

Homeschool Update 2025-2026: 6th Grade

We moved (only one house down!) at the start of this school year and I never sat down to write up our plans for this blog. Now we're more than six months in and winding down on some things already, but I wanted to give a little glimpse into what everyone is doing. To make it a little more manageable, I'll do one post for each grade level we have this year, starting with the oldest. 

M., 6th grade 

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: Pre-Algebra I with Economics
• Singapore Math: Challenging Word Problems 4 

English

• Essay assignments from Jensen's Format Writing (2002)
• Sentence Diagramming 2
• Editor in Chief Beginning 2
• Daily Grams 

Science 

• The Great Courses: Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology with John J. Renton
• The Great Courses: Meteorology: An Introduction to the Wonders of Weather with Robert G. Fovall 
• Monthly meetings of the Future Rockhounds of America
• Participation in the Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show of the Gem, Lapidary, and Mineral Society of Montgomery County MD

History

• The Great Courses: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire with Patrick N. Allitt (first half)
• The Great Courses: War, Peace, and Power with Vejas G. Liulevicius (first half)
• Tuttle Twins: America's History Part I

Music

• Minuet in G on Piano from Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook
• "Taps" on French horn 
• Scales and "Stars and Stripes Forever" on tenor recorder 
• Denes Agay Book 3
• The Great Courses: How to Play Piano with Pamela D. Pike 

Art

• Concordia University course, grades 5-8 
• Rainbow loom bracelets
• Alcohol markers
• Oil pastels
• colored pencils 

Religion

• New St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism
• Advent wreath
• Weekly Mass
• Monthly TLM
• Arise girls group (Also covers health topics)

Latin

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