2023-2024 Homeschool Curriculum | 4th grade and 2nd grade

I can hardly believe we’re heading into our FIFTH year of homeschooling! Here’s an overview of our 2023-2024 homeschool curriculum for 4th and 2nd grade. Many of our curriculum choices are the same as they’ve been in past years with a few new changes this year.

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(scroll to the bottom for a video if you prefer watching/listening over reading)

Curriculum Spine: Classical Conversations

This will be our 5th year doing Classical Converstations. CC Foundations touches on math, English grammar, Latin, geography, history, and science. We use this as our curriculum “spine” – we take the topics we’re learning in our CC memory work and expand on them more at home. This year is Cycle 3 which covers topics like US History, US geography (states and capitols, major US landmarks), human anatomy, and chemistry.

My 3 oldest (9, 7, and 4 years old) will be participating in Classical Conversations Foundations.

If you aren’t familiar with Classical Conversations I wrote a pretty in depth blog post about what it is, how it works, what a typical CC day looks like, and our thoughts after our first year.

RELATED VIDEOS

More about our CC curriculum in these videos (some are from a few years ago but are still applicable for this year since the curriculum doesn’t really change):

Language Arts: Logic of English & Classical Conversations Essentials

This will be our first year using a curriculum other than our beloved Logic of English!

In Classical Conversations when a child reaches 4th grade/9 years old they continue doing Foundations in the morning but then add on Essentials in the afternoon. So my 9 year old will move into CC Essentials this year for his language arts – they use their own CC branded language arts and IEW for writing.

My 2nd grader will contine with Logic of English though, he will be in Foundations D.

LOE covers grammar, spelling, reading, reading comprehension, and handwriting so you only need the one curriculum (so nice!). And of course as I’ve shared before (and the name indicates) it teaches the actual logic and rules behind the English language.

You can see my LOE Foundations D review here from the last time we went through it:

RELATED VIDEOS
Here’s my LOE Foundations A unboxing video so you can see what comes in the curriculum:

My LOE Foundations A review:

My LOE Foundations B review:

My LOE Foundations C review:

My LOE Essentials review:

Math: RightStart Math

We will be continuing with RightStart Math for our math. My 4th grader will be in Level E and my 2nd grader will be in Level C. As always I still continue to use and recommend this curriculum because it gives kids such a great understand of math and how it works.

You can see my Level C review from last time we went through it here:

RELATED VIDEOS
Check out what all comes with the RightStart Math Level A curriculum here:

RightStart Math Level A review:

RightStart Math Level B review:

RightStart Math Level D review:

History: Notgrass’ Our 50 States

Our last time through Cycle 3 we used Notgrass’ Our Star Spangled Story and really enjoyed it. This time we’re going to use Notgrass’ other elementary curriculum, Our 50 States. This will go along nicely with CC Cycle 3’s geography (US geography) and history.

RELATED VIDEOS

Notgrass’ Our Star-Spangled Story review

Science: Various Supplements

Classical Conversations plus language arts and math is considered a full curriculum. You can pick what you choose to add on at home. My boys are history lovers so I have added in a history curriculum some years but thus far have not used a formal science curriculum. We do have a subscription to Awesome Science TV because they make fantastic videos that go along with Classical Conversations. We use that to expand on each week’s CC sentence.

Bible: Bible Study Guide for All Ages

Last year we started using Bible Study Guide for All Ages and have really enjoyed that. We’ll be continuing that this year as well. It’s a great curriculum that I can use with all the kids (hence the name ;) ) and it goes deeper into some of the lesser known Bible stories/facts.

And that’s it for this year! With my oldest moving into CC Essentials, which adds quite a bit to his (*ahem* and my) workload, I’m trying to keep things simple in other areas. My 4 year old will also be doing some informal preschool work with things like my Preschool Math Activity Pack but I’ll share more about our preschool plans in another post.

Prefer videos? Here’s a video I made sharing what we’re using this year