Curriculum Plans for 5th Grade 2025-2026

I originally planned to continue with Sonlight, but the fourth grader is asking to go back to Ancients again.   He's specifically fascinated with Ancient Greek history.  I looked at the next Sonlight level that starts with Ancient History and it's HBL G, which is way beyond his age range (he's only 9 and that level is written for late middle school/early high school).  

My Plan is to give The Well-Trained Mind a try again (we've used this before).

Here's my hopefully final plan (subject to change).

Also, the 12th grader graduates in May, so she will be in college with the older three.  I will only be homeschooling one for the first time ever.

Bible

• The Action Bible
• The Action Bible Devotional

Math

• Continue Life of Fred (he will finish the elementary series this year)
• Wild Math 4

Language Arts/Reading

• Readers based on interest
• All About Spelling 3
• Handwriting without Tears Cursive (the 5th grade book)
• Language Lessons for the Elementary Child Book 1

Literature, History and Geography

• The Story of Civilization, Book 1
• Ancients, myths, classics, etc - literature and history booklist from The Well-Trained Mind
• Geography from A to Z 
• Countries of the World Coloring Book
• Famous Figures of Ancient Times
• Memorize 3-5 poems, narrations, learn to do a 1-level outline

Logic

• Cat Crimes (board game)
• Mindbenders Book 3
• Red Herring Mysteries

Physics and Technology 

• Books and science kits suggested in The Well-Trained Mind
• Real Science 4 Kids Physics
• Max Axiom comics
• MIT's Scratch, Cubelets from the library
• Year 2 of Crunch Labs

French

• Continue French with Mr. Innes

Fine Arts

• Study ancient art with The Arts: A Visual Encyclopedia
• Drawing, clay modeling, painting
• Story of the Orchestra
• Continue piano
• Start ukulele