4th Grade Homeschool Curriculum 2021-2022

Fourth grade always marks a transition year in my homeschool. It's the year when all of my kids have learned to read and have begun reading to learn.

This newly acquired independence allows each of my kids the opportunity to forge ahead with more self-directed learning activities. I no longer need to be the dictator of their days. 

To be honest, autonomy has always been a struggle for my youngest. In typical last-born tradition, he follows the lead of all of his older siblings and sometimes finds it difficult to occupy himself So this year, we'll be working on developing the skills of self-directed learning. 

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Here's what he'll be learning. Since we only homeschool 4-days a week, you can assume that each of these subjects will only be covered four times each week unless otherwise indicated.

Content-rich Subjects

As always, he'll do all of his content-rich subjects like Morning time/Bible, history, science, art, and creative writing with his older siblings. You can see those curriculum choices here>>>

Personal Devotions- every day

• The ESV Holy Bible for Kids

Language

• LLATL The Orange Book (Use coupon code unlikelyhomeschool at checkout to get 15% off your entire purchase from Common Sense Press, the makers of LAHTL.)
• Finish All About Spelling Level 3 and move on to Level 3.
• Read for pleasure every day.
• Read the following books that correspond with the LLATL Yellow Book: The Boxcar Children, Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers, Ben and Me, and The Sign of the Beaver. (If he's not currently working through an LLATL suggested book, he will read a chapter from a book that I assign to him. These will be classics, biographies, or exceptional fiction.)

Math

• Abeka Arithmetic 4 Video Lessons
• free online review games and apps (like Math Mateer and Monkey Math) for math process review (every few days) 

Handwriting

• A Reason for Handwriting C

Life Skills/Extra Curriculars

• Udemy for online drum lessons
• Read a section from Indescribable- 2x a week

• Thanks to his 4th-grade status, we were able to grab a fee annual family pass to the National Park Service through the Every Kid Outdoors initiative. We've already used the tickets for a few parks this past summer. We hope to do much more exploring in the coming school year. 
• Clean his room and make his bed each day.
• Daily chores: sweep the music room, empty the dishwasher with his older brother, empty all the bedroom and bathroom trash cans
• Weekly Chores for his child-of-the-day privileges and responsibilities: help make lunch/dinner and do two loads of laundry (Fridays)
• Monthly Chores: dust the main floor with his siblings, mop the music room, plus randomly select and complete two chores from our chore jar one Saturday each month

Co-operative Learning

Twice a month, he'll attend the homeschool co-op that I lead and participate in two enrichment classes each semester for a total of four for the 2021-2022 school year. In addition, he'll be able to join in on several field trips offered by the group.

Fourth grade will bring some changes to my son's schedule. He'll be encouraged to take more ownership of his learning. As with all personal growth, there will be growing pains. But, I've no doubt he'll be up to the challenge!

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