This next school year I will have a Sophomore (10th grade), a Fourth Grader, and a Pre-Schooler! And, I am graduating my first in a few weeks! So, I’ve done a lot of homeschooling, and a lot of curriculum! I love to research and review all the different options out there, and then make the best decisions for my family. I choose according to my teaching style, my kids’ learning styles, and our method of homeschooling, which happens to be Charlotte Mason Inspired. I recently revamped my Homeschool Scope & Sequence which gives my picks for all of the homeschool years beginning in pre-school and going through 12th grade. This is a guide I use, and can change depending on the child and our current life situations. But, I do like to use it as a guide for planning for the future.
Take a look:
Homeschool Scope & Sequence
| PRE- SCHOOL 3 | PRE-
SCHOOL |
K | FIRST | SECOND | THIRD | |
| BIBLE
Use Simply Charlotte Mason’s Memory Verse Packs and Memory Verse System |
New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes | MFW K | MFW 1st Grade
|
HOD Little Hearts for His Glory | HOD Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory
|
Bigger Hearts for His Glory |
| CHARACTER
Character First along with Character Booklets from Keeper’s of the Faith |
Big Thoughts for Little People
My ABC Bible Verses The Singing Bible |
Leading Little Ones to God
Hide ‘em In Your Heart CD |
A Child’s Book of Character Building Book 1
|
A Child’s Book of Character Building Book 2 | Character First
Wisdom and the Millers |
|
| WORLDVIEW | Adventures in Obedience
(Cat & Dog Theology) |
Cat & Dog Theology Elementary 1 | Cat & Dog Theology Elementary 2 | |||
| HISTORY | American | American | American | |||
| GEOGRAPHY | BF Geography through Literature | |||||
| ENGLISH | R&S ABC Books? | English for the Thoughtful Child 1 | English for the Thoughtful Child 2 | MFW Primary Language Lessons | MFW Primary Language Lessons | |
| SPELLING | All About Spelling Level 1 | All About Spelling Level 2 | All About Spelling Level 3 | All About Spelling Level 4 | ||
| READING/LITERATURE | Lots of Reading Aloud!
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Lots of Reading Aloud!
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Pathway Readers | Emerging Readers
Pathway Readers |
Emerging Readers and/OR
Pathway Readers |
Pathway Readers |
| WRITING | A Reason for Handwriting K | A Reason for Handwriting A | A Reason for Handwriting Transition | A Reason for Handwriting C | ||
| MATH | Numbers 1-10 | Horizons OR LOF | Horizons OR LOF | Horizons OR LOF | Horizons OR LOF | |
| SCIENCE | Shining Dawn Books – Nature By the Season | 106 Days of Creation
OR More Shining Dawn Book Units |
Living Learning Books Science | HOD Science
AND Apologia Flying Creatures |
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| ROTATIONS
Simply Charlotte Mason Picture Studies, Shakespeare in Three Steps, Beautiful Feet Composer Study then SCM’s Music Study with the Masters, Hymns from a Kid’s Heart and Then Sings My Soul, SCM’s Enjoy the Poems and Favorite Poems Old and New and Poems for Memorization, Shining Dawn Books for Nature Study, Art – Creating a Masterpiece, Missionary Biographies |
Poet: Rudyard Kipling
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Poet: Lewis Carroll | Poet: Christina Rosetti
Picture Study: John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt
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Poet:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Picture Study: Norman Rockwell and Grandma Moses |
Poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Picture Study: John James Audubon and Pablo Picasso |
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| ELECTIVES | ||||||
| CORE CURRICULUM | A Year of Playing Skillfully ages 3 & 4
Little Hands to Heaven |
MFW Kindergarten | MFW 1st Grade | HOD LHFHG | HOD Beyond LHFHG | HOD Bigger HFHG
|
| FOURTH | FIFTH | SIXTH | SEVENTH | EIGHTH | |
| BIBLE | HOD Preparing | TQ Beginnings | TQ Beginnings | Continue with Beginnings until finished
Then allow student to own their own study time |
Continue with Beginnings until finished
Then allow student to own their own study time |
| CHARACTER | Prudence and the Millers
Character First |
The Young Peacemaker
Character First |
Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends | Beautiful Girlhood and Raising Maidens of Virtue | Before You Meet Prince Charming |
| WORLDVIEW | Apologia Who Is God? | Apologia Who Am I? | Apologia Who is My Neighbor? | Apologia What on Earth Should I Do? | A Young Historians Introduction to Worldview |
| HISTORY | PHFHG with Draw Write Now Pilgrims, Pirates and Patriots and Draw Write Now Napoleum to Lady Liberty – World of the 1800’s and Draw Write Now Invention, Exploration & War – 20th Century | TQ Beginnings with Draw Write Now Creation through Jonah | TQ Greece with Draw Write Now Greece & Rome | TQ Rome with Draw Write Now Vikings, Middle Ages & Renaissance | TQ Middle Ages |
| GEOGRAPHY | A Child’s Geography of the World by Hillyer OR Galloping the Globe | Trail Guide to Bible Geography OR MapTrek | Trail Guide to Bible Geography OR MapTrek | Trail Guide to World Geography OR MapTrek | Trail Guide to World Geography OR MapTrek |
| ENGLISH | Intermediate LL 1 | Intermediate LL 2 | Intermediate LL 3 | Winston Grammar | Winston Grammar |
| SPELLING | Spelling Wisdom 1 | Spelling Wisdom 2 | Spelling Wisdom 3 | Spelling Wisdom 4 | Spelling Wisdom 5 |
| READING/LITERATURE | HOD Book List | HOD Book List | HOD Book List | HOD Book List | HOD Book List |
| WRITING | Begin Typing | Continue Typing | IEW Student Writing Intensive | IEW Ancient
History Based Writing Lessons |
IEW Continue Ancient and Begin Renaissance |
| MATH | LOF | LOF | LOF | LOF | LOF |
| SCIENCE | Apologia Astronomy OR
Science in the Ancient World |
Apologia Swimming Creatures OR
The Scientific Revolution |
Apologia Land Animals OR
Science in the Age of Reason |
Apologia Botony OR
Science in the Industrial Revolution |
Apologia Human Anatomy and Physiology |
| ROTATIONS | Poet: Robert Louis Stephenson
Picture Study: Cezanne and Pierre Auguste Renoir |
Poet: Robert Frost
Picture Study: Giotto and Raphael |
Poet: Emily Dickenson
Picture Study: Van Eyck and Fra Angelico |
Poet: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Picture Study: Botticelli and daVinci |
Poet: Sir Walter Scott
Picture Study: Durer and Michelangelo Shakespeare: A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream |
| ELECTIVES | Art: Creating a Masterpiece OR Artistic Pursuits AND
Barry Stebbing’s Nature Drawing and Journaling |
| NINTH | TENTH | ELEVENTH | TWELFTH | |
| BIBLE | Continue with Beginnings until finished
Then allow student to own their own study time |
Continue with Beginnings until finished
Then allow student to own their own study time |
Continue with Beginnings until finished
Then allow student to own their own study time |
Continue with Beginnings until finished
Then allow student to own their own study time |
| CHARACTER | A Young Woman After God’s Own Heart | Ourselves Book 1 | Ourselves Book 2 | Of Knights and Fair Maidens |
| WORLDVIEW | How to be Your Own Selfish Pig
AND, Cat & Dog Theology Year 1 |
Cat & Dog Theology Year 2 | Cat & Dog Theology Year 3 AND
I don’t Have Enough Faith to Be An Athiest |
Understanding the Times AND
Cat & Dog Theology Year 4
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| HISTORY | TQ Renaissance, Reformation, Exploration | TQ Age of Revolution 1 | TQ Age of Revolution 2 | TQ Age of Revolution 3 |
| GEOGRAPHY | Trail Guide to World Geography OR MapTrek | Trail Guide to US Geography OR MapTrek | Trail Guide to US Geography OR MapTrek | Trail Guide to US Geography OR MapTrek |
| ENGLISH | ||||
| SPELLING | ||||
| READING/LITERATURE | Progeny Press Literature Guides OR The Reader’s Odyssey with Honey for a Teen’s Heart | Progeny Press Literature Guides OR The Reader’s Odyssey with Honey for a Teen’s Heart | Progeny Press Literature Guides OR The Reader’s Odyssey with Honey for a Teen’s Heart | Progeny Press Literature Guides OR The Reader’s Odyssey with Honey for a Teen’s Heart |
| WRITING | IEW Continue Renaissance | IEW US History Based Writing Lessons | IEW US History Based Writing Lessons | IEW US History Based Writing Lessons |
| MATH | LOF | LOF | Financial Peace | |
| SCIENCE | Exploration Education Physical Science | Biology 101 OR ACE Biology | Chemistry 101 OR ACE Chemistry | |
| ROTATIONS | Poet: Robert Browning
Picture Study: Titian and Velazquez |
Poet: Carl Sandburg
Picture Study: Turner and Rembrandt Shakespeare: As You Like It |
Poet: William Wordsworth
Picture Study: Millet and Constable |
Poet: John Greenleaf Whittier
Picture Study: Monet and Van Gogh Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew |
| ELECTIVES | MFW Health
Creative Writing Foreign Language |
Foreign Language
Logic |
Economics
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Government |
Some of the typing transferred from Microsoft Word to blog world came out a bit strange, but hopefully you can make most of it out. I will stop here this time….as this is A LOT to take in. Next time, I’ll tell you what each of my curriculum choices for the 2016-2017 year are! (Not all details of the curriculum types are listed in the Scope & Sequence, and as I said before, the Scope & Sequence is just a guide).
Do you make a Scope & Sequence for your homeschool? What are some of the “Don’t Miss” subjects for your kiddos?
Until next time, Happy Planning!
Strings to Wings 
Your list makes me tired 🙂 I mean that in the best way possible. I love your high school worldview choices and may look deeper into them. I stick to math, science, english and history. I am making some changes this year. Some as in a lot, but I think they will work out well.
You have a very well thought out scope and sequence. Love it.
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Thank you! It’s taken years for me to develop! But, because of my love for research, it’s really been fun! I can honestly say I love these choices for my homeschool, but I’m not afraid to change it up, if necessary, because all my kids are so different. But, that’s the privilege and beauty in home education. We get to change things if they aren’t working!
Worldview is a favorite subject and one of the most important for my homeschool. It’s a high priority, and I love each of the choices! I hope you are able to try some of them out!
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