Our 2025-2026 Homeschool Year
The outline on our seventh year homeschooling
As I type that, seventh year, I realize that I’ve been homeschooling longer than I worked in the traditional work world. That is to say, I’ve been doing this a while. My first few years of homeschooling, my schedule was hard to stick to; I was too ambitious (my poor first kid, her Kindergarten year was not what it should have been). Over the last two or three years, I've been more realistic in setting out our agenda and calendar. This year, we’re planning on spending over five weeks abroad for my oldest daughter’s Bat Mitzvah (one week in Greece, followed by over a month in Israel), so this schedule is a bit brutal as a result, trying to cram a lot of school into a truncated amount of time.
I’ve written about how we homeschool before. While I say this is a schedule, it is without a timetable, but with a checklist of things that we will do on a typical day.
In addition to these classes, my oldest daughter takes violin lessons, online math classes, and in-person art and dance classes. My oldest son (my second-born) takes guitar classes in-person. All four kids do their Judaic studies online with Gesher (which we’ve been doing for five years at this point) and in-person Taekwondo classes.
This top portion is the enrichment “feast” we do together as a family. We’ll be doing PreK “curriculum” as a family with our 4-year-old so that he doesn’t feel ignored as we do school; he’s eager to jump in. I delved into the specific resources we use for the feast in my first post about how we homeschool.
I’ve thrown a lot of links in here, mostly for my oldest child. Assume that if there’s no link for the younger kids, we use the same curriculum for them, albeit at a different level (i.e., for History, my older two kids are doing Early American History for Intermediate Grades and my younger two kids are doing Early American History for Primary Grades…)
Reading for the kids isn’t linked because I just assign them a book to read for fun and just talk to me about and I casually ask them what they read as I’m making dinner, etc.
Monday: Artist, Psalm, Tea Time
Tuesday: PreK, Short story
Wednesday: Poetry, Proverbs
Thursday: PreK, Jewish short story
Friday: Parsha
Sixth Grader’s Weekly Schedule
Monday: History, Reading, Writing, Plutarch, Latin, Violin practice, Piano, French
Tuesday: Math, Copywork, Language Arts, Science, French, Violin, Geography, Writing
Wednesday: History, Reading
Thursday: Math, Copywork, Language Arts, Science, French, Violin, Geography, Writing, History
Friday: Math, Reading, Cursive, Writing, Violin, Piano, Rome, Latin, French, Memoria science
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Fifth Grader’s Weekly Schedule
Monday: Math, History, Reading, Latin, Writing, Guitar, Piano, French
Tuesday: Math, Copywork, Language Arts, Writing, Science, Plutarch, French, Geography
Wednesday: Math, History, Reading, Latin, Guitar, Piano
Thursday: Math, Copywork, Language Arts, Writing, Science, Cursive, French, Guitar, History, Geography
Friday: Math, Reading, Guitar, Piano, Rome, Writing, French, Memoria science
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Third Grader’s Weekly Schedule
Monday: Math, History, Reading, Writing, Science, French
Tuesday: Math, Writing, Copywork, Language Arts, French, Piano, Geography
Wednesday: Math, History, Reading, Science, Writing, Cursive
Thursday: Math, Copywork, Language Arts, French, Writing, Piano, Geography
Friday: Math, Reading, Writing, Piano, French, Science Workbook
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First Grader’s Weekly Schedule
Monday: Math, History, Reading (Memoria), Science, Piano
Tuesday: Math, Copywork, Language Arts, Reading (AGF)
Wednesday: Math, History, Reading (Memoria), Science, Piano
Thursday: Math, Copywork, Language Arts, Piano, Reading (Memoria)
Friday: Math, Piano, Reading (AGF), Art