Here is what we are using for Kindergarten, 3rd, and 8th grade this year!
For Kindergarten this year I am trying out Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.

I have never used it before but I knew with my fifth child I needed a plan to teach reading.

She has known all of her letter sounds for a while now but that is as far as we have gotten.

Hopefully this book will help make it easier for both of us.

I am still using Handwriting Without Tears for now but might start using something else.

The program did not work well for my twins because they needed that structure the third line adds and they struggle with making their letters the right size now.

We are also not all that happy with their cursive program and are leaning towards a more traditional style for that.

I went back and forth between RightStart and McRuffy Color Math for her math but in the end RightStart won.

McRuffy is a lot easier for me to teach but RightStart just teaches number sense so well!

So she is doing RightStart Level A this year and it will be my third time teaching it!

I got God’s Design for Science Plants for Beginners for both my Kindergartener and my 3rd grade twins this year.

I am finding my old way of making it up as I go is just too difficult while keeping up with 5 so I am buying more curriculum this year than normal.

They can’t usually all be in the same space to learn though so I might have just set myself up to teach this three times a day…

3rd Grade

I am going to continue using The Good and the Beautiful Level One for reading for the twins.

We don’t do some of the grammar in it as well if I feel it is helpful but none of the spelling.

I printed out my own practice pages for writing and might be using PreScripts Cursive Letters and Coloring World History if I decide to teach them cursive this year.

They are also doing All About Spelling Level 2 this year.

I love how All About Spelling teaches spelling.
We switched from RightStart to McRuffy Color Math halfway through the year last year so we still need to finish up the Second Grade book this fall.

I think RightStart does some stuff better but McRuffy is a lot easier for me to teach and the girls have been doing better with it so we will stick with this for now.

I have not been real happy with 1st Language Lessons for a while and have been keeping an eye out for an alternative.

The Winston Grammar Program is supposed to be hands on and less teacher intensive.

I also got a hands on grammar book that I might take from during the year.

I will be getting library books for history and geography as needed.

8th Grade

The boys are doing Masterbooks General Science 1 this year!

It started with them not knowing much about how tornadoes are formed and my oldests love of minerals.

We are pretty excited about this curriculum.

We started Masterbooks Biblical Archaeology later in the year last year so they still have a ways to go on that.

That will put us at the time of Jesus and I am still deciding what we will use next.

I have enjoyed Masterbooks though.

So far Biblical Archaeology has had a lot of geography included also.

We are using these Spencerian Penmanship books for the boys handwriting to try to improve their cursive.

The rest of their curriculum is online.

Grammar is Brave Writer

Math is VideoText although I am really looking forward to moving on. We are going to try Teaching Textbooks Geometry next I think.

I need something with more help for them and less checking work for me.

They will be continuing Duolingo for spanish and Khan Academy for programming.

I am trying to keep it simple this year but might add more as the year goes on!