Creating Your Homeschool Curriculum Grade 4-5 — Free Resource Guide

How to Create Your Own Homeschool Curriculum: Grade 4-5

Today I want to share this free 50+ page Resource Guide for Creating Your Own Homeschool Curriculum. It has been created to help answer some basic questions: What subjects should I teach my 4th or 5th grader?  Where do I start? How do I know what to teach my kids?

We are eclectic homeschoolers, which means that we use a wide variety of curriculum, books, resources and materials.  We’ve also created a lot of our own packets, worksheets, and games to go along with our studies.

We tend to really love hands-on activities and experiments.  We watch a lot of documentaries and movies (when they fit in with a unit).  We read a lot of books aloud together (including some of the textbooks we’ve used).  And, we play a lot of games in our homeschool as well (even my oldest still loves those).  Don’t worry if our style doesn’t suit you, that’s definitely not a bad thing.  Just take what sounds interesting or useful and disregard the rest!

We have three kids in our family. We often do science and history together.  That means that we don’t have a set plan for each grade. But, as our blog has grown and as the number of resources we have available has increased, I have gotten more and more emails from people asking where to start.

This series is my humble attempt to try to address some of the emails I’ve gotten

• I’m overwhelmed, I don’t even know where to start.
• How do I know what to teach my kids?
• What should I teach my child in Grade ___?
• My daughter (or son) is X years old, what should they be learning for science?

Creating your homeschool curriculum is easier than you might think. Decide on the basic subjects you’ll want to cover – and then choose the topics you want to start with.  Sounds easy, right?  But when there is SO much you can cover, it’s hard to know where to start.

I wanted to pull together some of the topics we covered and resources we used as my kids moved through 4th and 5th grades.

My hope is that this helps new homeschoolers to see some of the possibilities.  But you’ll want to listen to your own kids and follow your strengths and instincts as an educator.  It is quite possible you’ll look at some of the things we covered and reject it all. That’s helpful too, right?!!

Every homeschool is very different… just as each family is unique, each homeschooling family will wind up following their own enriching, exciting educational journey.

I’m worried that this resource is a bit rough around the edges… Life has been very busy and I feel like it could use some editing and polishing. (I spent 5 hours on it one day and 8 hours on it today… just gotta say “done” for now!) Maybe I’ll get to that at some point, but I wanted to publish and share it because a number of readers have been asking for it.

So, for what it is worth, here is the next in the series. I really hope it is helpful.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions or if you just want to say hi and tell me about your family!

Happy Homeschooling!

Warmly, Liesl

Creating You Own Homeschool Curriculum – Grade 4-5,  FREE Resource Guide

This was updated August 2023 to include some environmental studies units we did when my youngest was in 4th and 5th grades and to update some of the pages.

You might find these resources helpful if you have been homeschooling for a while.  These are the topics and units I hope to cover from K to 8:

Homeschool Science Unit Checklist for Elementary and Middle School

Language Arts Homeschool Checklist

Homeschool History Checklist

 You might want to check out these other free guides:

Creating a Homeschool Curriculum: Kindergarten – Grade 1 Resource Guide

and here is the second free Resource Guide in this series: Creating a Homeschool Curriculum: Grades 2-3

The Grades 6-8 Resource Guide is located here.

Free Resource Guide for Homeschooling High School – Grades 9-12

That’s about it for today!

See you again soon here or over at our Homeschool Den Facebook Page! You might also want to check out some of our resources pages above (such as our Science, Language Arts, or History Units Resource Pages) which have links to dozens of posts.  You might want to join our free Homeschool Den Chat Facebook group.  Don’t forget to check out Our Store as well.

Again, if you are interested in joining our Homeschool Den Newsletter, feel free to subscribe here. The Welcome Series includes 5 packed emails… with tips on homeschooling, keeping motivated, finding various resources and freebies tucked away on the blog and more!

Plus, you’ll be the first to hear about new packets (generally offered at a discount when they are first released), seasonal resources and more!

It’s a great way to hear about our latest packets and to learn about many of the hundreds of printables & other materials we have tucked away on the blog!

Happy Homeschooling!! 

~Liesl

P.S. I have a new post called Homeschool Resources that will help you find many of the resources we have on the blog. In addition to the various packets we have in the Store area, we have TONS of FREE printables.  The Resource Page has a huge list of those. 🙂