2024-2025 Grade 8 Homeschool Curriculum Picks

Check out our 2024-2025 grade 8 homeschool curriculum picks for the year!

I love researching homeschool curriculum. Making the decision on which homeschool curriculum to pick is often the hardest part.

The curriculum I choose for each of my kids must be something that helps them effectively. If it’s a struggle, it’s not worth pushing through curriculum to make it work. It can be disheartening and frustrating to function that way.

I’ve kept certain curriculum materials consistent and other ones, I’ve changed. Sometimes I’ve felt to change it up, and when I do, we go back.

That said, here’s our 2024-2025 homeschool curriculum picks for my grade 8 daughter.

2024-2025 Grade 8 Homeschool Curriculum Picks

Bible

• NIrV Adventure Bible for Early Readers
• Route 66: Travel Through the Bible Teacher’s Manual
• Route 66: Travel Through the Bible Student Manual
• The Radical Book For Kids

Language Arts

WRITING

• Brave Writer Growing Brave Writers (For Teachers/Parents)
• Brave Writer Building Confidence

SPELLING

• Apples: Daily Spelling Drills for Secondary Students (update – we decided this was not for us)
• Sequential Spelling (online version)

VOCABULARY

• Wordly Wise Book 4

GRAMMAR

• Basic Winston Grammar Set

READ-ALOUDS/POETRY

• Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
• Shakespeare’s Stories
• The Bronze Bow
• Number The Stars
• God’s Smuggler
• The Wild Robot Protects

Math

• Saxon Math Algebra 1/2

Social Studies

• The Mystery of History, Volume 2: The Early Church and the Middle Ages Student Reader (with digital code to download the Companion Guide)
• Geography Province To Province
• Courage & Conquest
• Explorers Of Canada – Our Home And Native Land

Science

• Christian Kids Explore Physics
• Christian Kids Explore Chemistry (finishing this one from last year)
• Christian Kids Explore Creation Science
• Science in the Ancient World Set
• Lab Set of Science in the Ancient World

Art

• The Usborne Book Of Art
• Artistic Pursuits Drawing with Graphite Pencils, Beginning Level (ART CORE 1)

Second Language

• Hebrew
• French (Duolingo)

Typing/Keyboarding

• Typing Club

Music

• Lives Of The Musicians
• Singing The Hymns

Health

• Discussions as they come up



Mom

• Are My Kids On Track?
• Raising Great Kids
• Home Learning Year By Year
• For The Children’s Sake
• The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
• A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning
• Laying Down The Rails

What resources are you thinking about as you look ahead to your homeschool year? Any particular ones for grade 8 that you have experience with?

Anchored in Christ,

Melanie

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