Our 6th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices For The 2021-2022 School Year

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I almost cannot believe it has been seven years on this journey. I am still very thankful to have the ability and willingness to continue. Because let me tell you, if I didn’t know, now I know a little that it’s not for the faint of heart. However, you are not here for all that. You are here to check out Our 6th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices For The 2021-2022 School Year.

Before we get into the topic, I want to address something. Not because I owe an explanation, but I think it might be helpful. You never know who might follow along your journey.

I was, until now, afraid to skip my eldest. I considered it last year. Even though curriculum and grades don’t matter to some, I completely understand. But that was a legitimate concern of mine.

However, my eldest has gotten very good at self-study over the last year, and through questioning and explanations, the understanding is there. So, she was doing some higher than her grade work last year.

Long story short, it would bore her almost repeating the fifth grade. So we are moving on. Some of her books are between the 5th and 7th grades, and Our 6th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices For The 2021-2022 School Year video will explain that better.

These are Our 6th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices For The 2021-2022 School Year.

Note: The links for All About Learning Press, Well Trained Mind, and Demme Learning are for convenience. They have not sponsored links. All other links are my Amazon affiliate links or social media links where applicable.

Reading

My 6th-grader has completed the All About Reading Level 4 by All About Learning Press. My two younger daughters will continue with it. For my 6th grader, she will enjoy a good mix of fictional and non-fictional books for reading. Reading is her favorite subject, so we will build this out as the year progresses.

This year, I purchased little readers. My eldest is going through a Minecraft phase, so she repeatedly reads books from one Minecraft series for her fiction reads. The Shipwreck is her favorite, followed by The End. Out Of My Mind is one of her favorites, and she reads it repeatedly.

Like she has discovered, and we know as adults, the more you delve into something, the more you discover new things. So many of her favorite books are like that for her right now.

For Non-fiction reads, she will spend most of that time reading her coding books and coding (she enjoys coding) and learning new drawing techniques. She is learning to draw Anime. Also, I am catching up on social studies and science textbook readings. Throughout the year, I will add to her Library when she is tired of her current books. We also plan to resume going to our local Library unless we cannot. We also bought six of The Big Fat Notebooks, so she’ll use those as well.

Reading Comprehension

I printed out some free 6th-grade comprehension worksheets from k12reader.com. I have no affiliation with the website; I used some of their worksheets periodically.

Writing

This year, we will use Writing & Rhetoric Book 2: Narrative 1 and Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative 11. She is looking forward to doing this. Last year, we tried Book 1, and I created a problem for myself. She was over with Writing with Ease and only wanted to do this program. Her words are that she finds the stories much more engaging and fun. We alternated between both programs, hence not finishing either. I have no regrets; I think Writing With Ease is an excellent program, especially for a child stronger in the language arts, and she got to look forward to our Writing and Rhetoric Lessons. My two younger ones, whom I have to encourage to read, will mainly use this program, and I will sprinkle in Writing with Ease, sometimes for one of them.
Last school year, almost every week, I had my girls each write stories in a notebook. The younger ones had to write at least a page, my eldest a leaf. It was not super structured. Times when they had to write a story. Since this worked out well, we are going to continue with this.

Handwriting

Cursive- We would print free cursive practice sheets online from handwritingworksheets.com to keep practicing. And not that often, honestly. (no affiliation)

Spelling

We have enjoyed this program from the beginning. It is pretty simple to use and a great resource, even for future reference. Plus, the blue spelling rules cards provide a simple review when needed without going through the text again. So, we are using All About Spelling Level 6 and Level 7, the last in the program. My eldest completed levels 4 and 5, mostly self-thought, the previous year. The intention is not to go through both this year, but we will if we can.

Grammar

For this school year, we are using Easy Grammar Grade 6.

Logic

Daily Higher-Order Thinking Grade 6 by Evan Moor. The goal for us this year is to pick out exercises that might be a little challenging for her and work through those. Completing the text is not our goal this year. We have encountered quite a few challenging exercises and puzzles using this series.

Math

Math-U-See Epsilon by Demme Learning. This program works well with my kids.

Bible Study

The kids all have their Bibles at the breakfast table that they read once they finish their wake-up routine and are about to have breakfast. My eldest is reading a regular Bible, just a smaller size. The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name is being used by my eight-year-old. My six-year-old reads The Beginners Bible for Toddlers—all of their Bibles we have owned for several years.
Also, we will try a few of the daily exercises from The Bible Made Easy for Kids once or twice a week.

Science

God’s Design for the Physical World Complete Set by Answers In Genesis (Machines and Motion, Heat and Energy, and Inventions and Technology). We did not start this last year, but we will use this as our spine science curricula this year. There is a newer version to the series. I have the previous version.

Social Studies

A lot of our Social studies choices look very similar to last year. And I am Ok with that. I felt like there was still a lot we can learn from what we had already, so I did little purchasing in this subject area.

_Geography

We will continue from where we left off as we did not complete any of these.

_Government

The Everything American Government Book: From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand Our Democratic System
Usborne Politics for Beginners. Both versions of these books on Amazon are the same. The only differences are one is hardcover, and the wording on the front is slightly different.

_Economics

The Usborne books on Politics, Business, and Money were winners. My eldest read through these several times, and she will do the same this year. I will group read with my two younger daughters.

_History

Pull from topics mentioned in Our What Your Child Needs to Know Series for this as well.
Everything You Need To Ace American History
Everything You Need To Ace World History

_African-American History

Over the years, we have amassed a decent library of books.

Some of these are:

So, we are only adding two books this year.

_Trinidad and Tobago History

Casually, I would read aloud to them from History Of The People Of Trinidad And Tobago by Dr. Eric Williams. I want them also to learn a bit of their Trinidad and Tobagonian heritage as American Trinis.

The History of the Trinidad and Tobago Book.

Stem Learning

My 6th-grader is working on coding. My younger ones explore coding using websites like Khan Academy, which is free. You can check out our curriculum from last year to see some coding games and books we own for mainly the younger two. In another post, I will share some valuable resources to check out for coding for kids.

Other

These have been our fallback from the beginning of our homeschool journey. I have not regretted these purchases yet.

What Your Fifth Grader Needs To Know and What Your Sixth Grader Needs To Know– We use this during nighttime read-aloud, and my oldest now reads hers on her own. I usually read through the Geography and History from this series as well.
Grade 5 Brain Quest Workbook. And then the Grade 6 Brain Quest Workbook.
YouTube videos from some of our favorite YouTube learning channels.
Lots of play!

Our 6th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices For The 2021-2022 School Year

You can also check out: Our 4th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices For The 2020-2021 School Year, Our 3rd Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices For The 2019-2020 School Year, Our 2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices For The 2018-2019 School Year, and Our 1st Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices For The 2017-2018 School Year.

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Thanks for stopping by,

Nicole.