Our 2026-2027 Homeschool Curriculum Line Up for 7th grade, 5th grade, and 2nd grade

We are headed into our 8th year of homeschooling!  Here’s a line up of our 2026-2027 homeschool curriculum for 7th grade, 5th grade, and 2nd grade (plus a 5 year old who may start a bit of preschool work toward the middle of the year)

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Classical Conversations

This will be our 8th year doing Classical Conversations and our first with all four kids in CC! We’ll have a 7th grader in Challenge A (aka CC’s name for 7th grade), a 5th grader in Foundations and Essentials, a2nd grader in Foundations, and a 5yo in Foundations.

CC Foundations touches on math, English grammar, Latin, geography, history, science, and fine arts. For the Foundations ages we use this as our curriculum “spine” – we take some of 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 U.S. History, U.S. Geography, and anatomy. Challenge students no longer follow what we do in Foundations and instead have their own set of subjects to work on, which I’ll share more about in the 7th grade section.

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, and I also have a ton of videos about it on my YouTube channel.

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7th grade

My oldest will be in 7th grade, which in Classical Conversations is called Challenge A. I’ve already done a very in depth blog post about Challenge A and what he’ll be covering so I’m not going to go into as much detail in this post, just give a quick rundown.

For the sake of this blog post I will use more common “subject” names but CC has different names for what they call each of the subjects (which they call “strands”)

Math: For math he will be using RightStart Math level H. We’ve used RightStart since level A in kindergarten and level H is the final level. It’s both exciting and sad to think about this being our last level of RightStart and needing to change to something next year. But for this year we’ll continue with RSM – I’ve been so happy with it through the years and it’s been so neat to see it all culminate in these last levels!

He will also use CC’s The Math Map as a supplement (The Math Map, or TMM, is the required math curriculum for Challenge A – we will be using it enough that he can participate in the discussions in class each week but it will not be his primary curriculum).

Language Arts: This is the “Exposition” strand in Challenge A. They read 10 novels and learn to write persuasive papers using The Lost Tools of Writing curriculum.

Science: For part of the year they will research various science topics and write papers (using their IEW skills from CC Essentials), then they will spend part of the year completing a science fair project, and finally they will spend part of the year learning anatomy. There is no set text or curriculum for this subject.

Cartography: They will learn the countries of the world and their capitals, work on learning to draw the world, and learn a variety of map vocabulary.

Latin: CC uses the Henle Latin texts in community but we will be using Jam with Latin at home (it teaches the same concepts, but in an easier-to-understand format with videos and a workbook).

Analogies and Reasoning: He will also work through two workbooks (Reasoning Together: Analogies and Reasoning Together: Puzzles) as part of his Challenge A coursework.

Spelling: This is not a Challenge A subject, but we will continue to work on a little bit of spelling at home using All About Spelling.

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5th grade

Math: He will continue using RightStart Math for math and this year will be in Level F.  We also will be using CC’s The Math Map and Beast Academy online for math supplements.

Language Arts: This will be his second year (second “tour” in CC language) of Classical Conversations Essentials – Essentials uses a CC-specific language arts program (Essentials of the English Language) for grammar plus IEW for writing and vocabulary. (see more about CC Essentials here)

In addition to CC Essentials he will use Daily Grams as a quick daily practice for editing, punctuation, sentence combining, etc. and All About Spelling for spelling instruction.

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2nd grade

Math: She will be using RightStart Math Level C.

Language Arts: This will kind of be an odd year for her for language arts. She flew through Logic of English Foundations and finished it a year earlier than the older two did. With them we moved right into LOE Essentials in 3rd grade but since she’s only 2nd grade I’m not sure that I’m ready to move her on to LOE Essentials yet. So at least at the beginning of the year we are starting a variety of things. We will be using All About Spelling for spelling and a grammar workbook for some grammar practice

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5 year old

He just turned 5 this summer and if he were attending school somewhere I would not be putting him in kindergarten this year so for now I’m treating homeschool the same. We will likely start some preschool work (Preschool Math at Home and Handwriting without Tears are the only official preschool things I’ve done with any of my kids) about halfway through the school year but right now he is showing no interest so I’m not in a rush to do that.

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Group subjects

History

I am so excited about history this year! We will be using Little School of Smith’s American Girl history curriculum. My 7 year old daughter is really in to American Girls right now so this seemed like the perfect time to lean in to her interests and use that to learn more about US History. The American Girl history is made up of multiple unit studies – each one focused around one of the girls. You read through that American Girl’s stories but also learn additional things about what was going on in the world during that time period.

The American Girl books are your main text but there are also booklists of supplemental books as well as crafts, recipes, hands on activities, notebooking, art, and so much more!

This is very different for us. We have not (so far) been a family that does a lot of unit studies and we typically treat history basically as a read aloud. Choosing this unit study with all its additional components is a big change but I’m really excited about it.

And for those who may be wondering, even though the curriculum is based around the American Girl dolls and has the word “girl” in the name, it is not “girly”. All of my boys have enjoyed the American Girl stories already, and the activities in the unit studies are fun for both genders. So my boys will be participating in this too. With Challenge A being such a big jump in workload I don’t know quite how much my oldest will do with us, but I think he will enjoy doing what he can.

We will also be using this history supplement each week to expand a bit on our CC history sentence for the week.  It’s not a full curriculum, just a few additional things about the weekly sentence. (Use the code SWEETDEAL15 for 15% off)

Science

Because history is going to be such a big focus for us this year, we will likely pull back a bit on science. Last year we started using Berean Builders’ Science in the Ancient World curriculum. We did not finish so we’ll be continuing working through that as we have time.

We will also read this supplement to go along with our CC science each week. (Use the code SWEETDEAL15 for 15% off)

Miscellaneous

Tea Time: Last year we started having a weekly Tea Time and we have LOVED doing that! (read all the details in my post here) We eat a yummy snack and then use that time for some art or other fine arts. Currently we:

• Talk about manners using this book
• Discuss a piece of art, read a poem, and listen to some music from the Tea Time Together lessons (use code MYCHOCOLATEMOMENTS to get 10% at Tea Time Together)
• Draw along with an Art for Kids Hub video

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I have a gazillion videos on my YouTube channel – reviews of just about every curriculum we’ve used, our curriculum line ups from past years, tons of Classical Conversations videos, and more so check that out!