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Sixth Grade- Next year we will have a second volume of The Precious People which will bump this whole recommendation by one year, but many families cycle back through a favorite Peaceful Press resource so that younger children can enjoy the life giving stories as well.
If you've done a few levels of IEW Writing Lessons and your children are confident with summarizing, you could let those students write longer narrations with the history you are reading or add a creative writing resource that reviews sentence and essays types like Paragraph Writing for Kids.
In 6th grade and beyond I also recommend getting extra help with math, unless you are a strong math teacher. We struggled through middle school and above math until we finally found math co-op classes with teachers who loved the subject. I was enjoying reading aloud to my children and writing and learning history with them, and taking care of my babies, so juggling all that and then being thorough at teaching algebra wasn't working.
Early years homeschooling should be so much fun, but as you get to the upper grades, make sure you are laying a good foundation for math and writing through these recommendations.
According to Andrew Pudewa of IEW, the best way to raise excellent writers is to read aloud, so educating with the Peaceful Press has you covered in that area!
If you've done all of the Peaceful Press resources you might even be ready to plan your own literature based education.
And if you are planning for high school, I recommend this book. It lays out a simple plan for educating high school through great books. (Amazon link)
Of course, if you are homeschooling multiple ages, simply choose a level of the Peaceful Press and then add grade appropriate math and language arts.
Try to choose simple language arts resources like All About Learning, IEW, Easy Grammar, or Logic of English so that you aren't making more work for yourself.
We already include literature, poetry, copywork, notebooking, and narration so you don't need a language arts resource that includes these subjects.
We also include history, geography, timeline, science, nature study, handcrafts and art, so you don't need to supplement those subjects until high school.
In fact, I used the Peaceful Press resources well into high school and simply added extra reading and science.
My youngest daughter was homeschooled with the Peaceful Press method throughout 10 years of school and graduated a year early from a public charter school with an award for her high GPA.
After transitioning my youngest two into public charter school classes for some of their high school years I can see that our humanities education was thorough and produced thinking skills, virtue, and a deeply connected family. We had so much fun on our homeschool journey and I love how thoughtful, diligent, and creative my adult children are.
The only things I would have done differently throughout educating my 7 children was to add more science vocabulary (my Charlotte Mason children have a vast understanding of scientific concepts but I could have done more science vocab and we included this in our new Nature Book Flood) and I would have kept going with Right Start Math longer or hired a math tutor earlier.
What I wouldn't change for the world is the many years of bonding over great books, exploring the beauty of creation, discussing big ideas, and creating recipes and projects that expanded our understanding of how things work.
So if you want to give your children an excellent education while having fun and staying connected as a family, grab a family centered Peaceful Press parent guide and get started.
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