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Best 6th Grade Homeschool Curriculum

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Best 6th Grade Homeschool Curriculum

Not sure what to use for your 6th grader? See the best 6th grade homeschool curriculum to use with your budding middle schooler.

It’s that fun time when they’re able to be more indendent with their work and they’re also able to do more on their own in their online courses which is a huge burden lifted from you.

It’s also that time when they may be heading through puberty. This can be a huge change in your homeschool. Over Christmas my son grew a mustache and he’s just growing like a beanstalk.

It’s crazy.

Not a little boy anymore.

>> See my tips on how to homeschool successfully

This is what I used with my son, with the exception of The Good and the Beautiful curriculum I do try to find neutral or secular homeschool curriculum to use in our homeschool.

6th Grade Language Arts

The lower levels of The Good and the Beautiful language arts curriculum in PDF form are free from kindergarten to grade 5. I’ve used them when I found them with my daughter and it’s working wonderfully for her.

It covered grammar, spelling, phonics and writing so we just kept with it. The stories can be a tad boring for my son, but my daughter just loves them.

The Good and the Beautiful – Language Arts Level 6

We had also been working through IEW’s theme based writing, their All Things Fun and Fascinating to make writing more fun since it’s a lower level. He’s my avid reader but reluctant writer.

6th Grade Math Curriculum

Singapore Math 6A and 6B

While this link goes to the U.S. edition, I do prefer to use the Standards edition. I did find it more thorough and I did start out with U.S. edition for my son but switched after I got to look through the Standards edition books.

I find them to be more complete with more practice. Because I am mathy myself, I only purchased the workbooks both 6A and 6B to use with my kids. If you’re not familiar with the Singapore math method or you’re not mathy yourself, you’ll want to at least get the Textbooks, and they also have home instructor guides as well.

Saxon Math Homeschool: 7/6

Another solid math program is Saxon. Because my son is mathy, he didn’t need all of the practice that Saxon offers. But Saxon is solid and it goes all the way up to high school level.

 Primary Mathematics Grade 6 SET–Textbooks 6A and 6B, Workbooks 6A and 6BPrimary Mathematics Grade 6 SET--Textbooks 6A and 6B, Workbooks 6A and 6B Saxon Math Homeschool: 7/6 (Saxon Math 7/6 Homeschool)Saxon Math Homeschool: 7/6 (Saxon Math 7/6 Homeschool)

 

6th Grade History Curriculum

I asked my son what he wanted to learn this year, we had finished 80% of Story of the World Volume 2: Middles ages. And he specifically requested to learn more about medieval weapons. This I hadn’t found anything to purchase so we got library books about weapons and he’s been notebooking what he’s learned and drawing diagrams and explaining how they work.

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Boys and their weapons.

He’s also be working on building his own out of household supplies. We already had these books because my oldest had them so he has been creating the projects from here.

 Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball WarfareMini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build and Master Ninja WeaponsMini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build and Master Ninja Weapons

 

6th Grade Science Curriculum

Chemistry

Ellen McHenry’s The Elements – this lasted 8-9 weeks for us since we do science two times a week. And it also made learning chemistry fun.

Elemental Science Logic Stage – It’s meant to go for the whole year and it’s a full curriculum with all of the experiments laid out for you which I love.

We’re going through the experiment books Fizz Bubble & Flash and Atoms and Molecules.

They include simple chemistry experiments that you can do at home with easy to find materials. I mean there’s stuff I didn’t have on hand but I just had to ensure that we planned out what was needed.

The majority of the supplies needed were household ingredients.

Computer Programming

I love Code Academy for introducing kids to pure programming. I really want my son to be able to help me with my website so he’s learning HTML and CSS. He’s also interested in game programming so he’s starting to learn Python.

Code Academy – HTML and CSS

Language

At my son’s request, he wanted to learn Vietnamese, I don’t speak it but his father does. So we found Mango Languages through our library and he’s been using that. He’s enjoying it.

Mango Languages – Vietnamese

6th Grade Reading List

My son is a wonderful reader but he only likes to read what he’s interested in. I just want to broaden his horizons a bit and have him read some of the classics. If it’s hard for him to get through, we’ll do it as a read aloud.

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great by Gerald Morris

Classic Starts: The Prince and the Pauper

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

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