Everything We Plan to Use for Homeschool in 2025
Here is everything we plan to use for homeschool in 2025. Every year, I scour people’s book lists for the best homeschool resources, and I have found some books that way. This is my pay-it-forward way of passing that on!
Main Body of Learning –
Around the Medieval World –
This will be the main core of my lesson plans. I don’t want to figure out every day what art to study, and how many chapters to read. So at the beginning of each year. I map out exactly where we want to go for the year and write out my lesson plans in advance. I had so many people who wanted to buy my lesson plans that I hired a professional educator to review them, and then she also is my editor.
Science – has two tracks this year! My older son will read Exploring the World of Physics. My younger two I will read aloud from Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 2. I’m really excited to have two levels of science this year! It will help make sure my oldest is more challenged and my younger kids have something they can understand and enjoy too. This year I also sourced some YouTube videos to help illustrate some of the more complicated concepts.
History – We combine picture books, Story of the World as our history spine, and good literature set in the same time and place to get a holistic look at history and the culture of a place (all included in Around the Medieval World). Each week we also write something into our Book of Centuries as a kind of a journal of where we’ve been historically.
This is where I often include geography. By the time we are finished with a month, it feels a bit like we’ve explored that region. I’m adding to that this year by also including some themed crafts to the handicrafts. The boys really enjoyed these short-term projects taken directly from our readings.
Bible – One of my favorite Bible books we’ve read through was “The Ology.” It was the basics of our Christian faith broken down into easy-to-understand lessons! It’s been 3 years since we read through this book, and I’m eager to do it again.
Poetry and Nature Study – I’m so excited to be inspired by the work of Edith Holden in The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. I’ve read the kids a couple of passages from it and we all have loved her selections of poetry. Seeing her beautiful art helps to inspire our drawing and paintings in our own nature journals.
Necessary Add-Ons
Language Arts – My second grader will do the first round of the Institute of Excellence in Writing’s “Fix-it Grammar.” With this job, I’ve worked with a lot of editors. They all highly recommend that program, which has kept me coming back to it. This would have been my son’s 3 year in it, but he asked for a change of scenery, so I’m going to have him do beginning Latin for the first bit of the year. (along with continuing to sharpen his written narrations).
To add on to the reading to writing skills, I’m also going to do Memoria Press’ grade-specific literature guides again for the first part of the year. Our 6th grader will kick off the year with The Hobbit. Since this is a new skill for our 3rd grader I backed down a grade and plan to let him do Brambly Hedge for his new skill.
Math – We’ve used The Good and the Beautiful for Math from the beginning, and plan to continue that this year.
Something New and Beautiful
I haven’t included classical music as part of my lesson plans, so I was delighted to find Classical Encounters by Sadie Hoyt. It’s a gorgeous piece of work that takes you through Medieval church history and its connection to music and architecture. I’m excited to learn these things myself and share them with the boys!
