7th Grade Curriculum Picks: 2025-2026
Here we go! I have been researching curriculum for months and kept going back and forth, but I finally came to a place where I feel really good about everything and I am so excited to share it all with you guys. This year the girls really helped me make a lot of decisions on their curriculum which was so nice to have their input. Over the next few days I’ll also be sharing our 3rd and 1st grade picks!
Morning Time + Devotional
This year our family morning time will be from 9:00-10:00. Here are the things we’ll be working on and looping through during this time:
The Red Headed Hostess Scripture Study: This is one of my longest running subscriptions and I’ve been using it as part of our morning time for years now. I usually pick one thing a day to bring into our morning time so that we’re always starting our day off on a spiritual note. My girls will also read and study some of the material during their independent study time.
Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization: We have not had much of a focus on poetry memorization and I decided I wanted to try it this year. We will just work on this a couple times a week.
Journaling: When the girls were younger I was much better at helping them with journaling and we’ve been kind of hit of miss with it the last couple years so I decided to bring it back this year. I think it’ll be easier to do as a family now that my boys are older.
Music Appreciation: I am so excited for this course. We will probably just do 1-2 lessons a week family style. We’ll be watching the videos and just discussing the question prompts out of the student guidebook.
Health & Safety: After we work through the Music Appreciation course we are going to spend the rest of the year touching on health & safety topics. I just want to keep it really simple though. I am going to be utilizing all of the health & safety courses from TGTB, but we will not be doing any of the science journals or extensive hands-on activities or science projects with them. I am simply just going to use them as a spine and do mini discussion lessons with the kids. I will likely combine multiple lessons so we’re touching on nutrition, the human body, mental health & emotional resiliency, age-appropriate maturation, and other safety topics.
Language Arts
Handwriting: TGTB Handwriting 7: Most of the girl’s writing work will probably be done via typing this year, but I think five minutes of daily handwriting practice won’t hurt to continue to strengthen fine motor skills.
English & Writing: IEP Beginning English: The Wonder of Words: This is a live class taught in Utah or online. I know someone who teaches one of the in-person classes and so it comes highly recommended. The girls chose to do the online class and we all feel really good about that. It’s only taught 1x a week which is so nice because that frees up time on our other days. I think they’ll have some assignments to work on during the week, but, admittedly, I’m excited that this is a very hands-off class for me and will mostly be done independently.
Extra Literature: Good Books: An Introduction to the Literary Tradition: I think Angelina Stanford is brilliant and I can’t pass by the opportunity for my girls to learn from her. This is a one hour class each week that we will be taking asynchronous. By we I mean me and my girls because I am planning to watch this them as something fun we can do together. There is no homework, papers, tests, or grades - it’s just simply come & enjoy. I want to emphasize that next to their IEP class - this course is definitely above and beyond, but the girls are avid readers and literature is one of their favorite subjects so I don’t think it’ll be too much for them. (Plus, they’ve already read a handful of the books required for both classes.)
Math
Saxon 8/7: This will be our first year using Saxon. Last year, my girls taught themselves the majority of their own math lessons using the mini lessons in TGTB Math 6. Since they seem to do well with this learning approach we went with Saxon because it has a similar lesson format and so I think they’ll be able to do this course mostly independent. The lesson practices are much longer than TGTB and I do not plan to have them complete every problem. As we get into the course I will customize the number of their practice problems based on what I feel like they need help with. If the structure of Saxon’s lessons don’t work for them then our back up plan is to enroll them with My Math Assistant. This resources has short and to the point video lessons that align with Saxon. I have a lot of thoughts surrounding math right now, but I’ll save those for another time. I’ll just say I’ve already decided if we take this course slower than year’s past —I’m totally fine with that.
History & Geography
TGTB History Year 1: I will be teaching this course family style and my girls will be using the 7-8 Student Explorer lesson extensions. There are 4 units in this course with about 15-20 lessons. I will teach from this course 3x a week in a 4-6 week unit style study. After the first unit we will transition to a science unit study for 4-6 weeks and then transition back to the second unit in this history course and so on and so forth throughout the rest of the school year.
Millennial Instructors 2025-2026: This is a geography/gospel monthly magazine subscription that my girls will be reading independently.
HUH Biblical History: This is another asynchronous class I will be taking with my girls that is simply just watching/listening. It is only one hour a week and another “something fun” class we’re all looking forward to!
Science
Harbor & Sprout Engineering: The girls asked to learn more about engineering this year and that is also a high interest of my younger boys. For this family-style unit study I am hoping it is simple enough that the girls can help teach my younger boys the lessons with me. As I mentioned above in the history section —I will teach from this course 3x times a week in a 4-6 week unit style study. After this study we will transition back to history for another 4-6 weeks and so on and so forth throughout the rest of the school year.
Hack Packs: This was one of the things the girls were most excited about this year. They’ve already done one of the projects and it’s the perfect fit for where they’re at right now.
TGTB Wonders of Energy: This year, I have an amazing neighbor who will be teaching a science class one day a week catered toward middle graders and they’re starting with this unit from TGTB.
Harbor & Sprout Botany: This course is designed to be done independently. Since botany is another high interest of my girls I grabbed it to see how they will like it. They will have independent study time during the hours of 10-12 where they’ll work on math, history, & language arts. I suspect they’ll have some time to study botany during this time, but I won’t know for sure until we get into our school year. If they are short on time and enjoy it we’ll make more time for it whether that be in the afternoons or push it into a family-style study next spring.
This science plan should get us up through December of 2025 and then I will re-adjust as necessary.
Music, Art, & PE
Music: In addition to our morning Music Appreciation study the girls take piano lessons. They’ll also be joining a local children’s choir this year.
Art: Sparklers Club Epic Curriculum: This year I am going to be teaching a more formal art class family-style 1x a week (on the day we are not doing history or science.) The Sparklers Club is a yearly subscription that only opens in August and January. Inside, are hundreds of art tutorials for K-7th graders that can be unlocked with monthly credits (it’s kind of like Audible-style). There are also five full-year curriculums to chose from. Epic is one that we have fully unlocked because of the year we joined and it is a study of art elements and principles. Each month we will study an element of art (line, color, value, shape, pattern, ect.) and then do 1-2 art projects associated with that element.
Learn to Draw in 21 Days Season 1: I purchased this course mostly with my younger son in mind, but I will have it on hand for my older girls to work on too. Since this can be done independently it is something I hope they can turn to when they have down time or need a break from another study.
PE: We have a family recreational center pass so the kids are regularly swimming and the girls like to walk laps with me. I have also been teaching them how to use basic work out equipment there. Our family also enjoys small hikes and biking.
And that’s it! I am super excited for this year and, as always, I will keep you guys updated on how things go!
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