Third Grade Curriculum Choices | 2020-2021 School Year 

We are just using our library mostly! We will see what the kids gravitate towards and maybe find some unit studies for that as we go.

Curriculum wise, I have a 5th and 6th grader. They'll be using Math Mammoth for math, The Good and The Beautiful Language Arts, RSO Biology 2, and Story of the World volume 3. Our co-op has been cancelled for the 2020-2021 year, but another mom and I plan to teach science and history together.

I love these resources. We are not in 3rd grade yet but I also love researching curriculums to use in the upcoming years!

Looks like fun! Another vote for a Look Inside Tuttle Twins...I've been eyeing that.

My daughter is a third grader this year. We are going to use different workbooks for math and language (mostly Evan Moor) we do a lot of reading and documentaries also unit studies that I am creating for her and her little brother. You are such an inspiration!!! We have been doing the night basket and they love it thank you for your ideas😃can’t wait to see traveling around the world.

For the summer, early fall, and then again in the late spring (April/May), we do a lighter load to make more time for outdoor adventures, gardening, and self-directed art projects. (My 4th grader is currently sewing large scale soft toys, 3/4 of her height, and doing a lot of sculpting.) Our lighter load is: Read aloud, independent and shared reading, Math Lessons for a Living Education, Grammar Galaxy, journal writing, letter writing, Evan-Moor Skill Sharpeners: Math, Science, and Geography, and Evan-Moor Building Spelling Skills. (But not everything every day.) For the fall, winter, and early spring, we will use Oak Meadow as our main curriculum, as well as Artistic Pursuits, Kiwi Co. crates, and a few other odds and ends. Our newest and most exciting addition...our "one thing" this year...is Italian! We are learning together as a family at dinner time using Duolingo and TalkBoxMom. We're having a ball! Best wishes for a beautiful year!

This is our first year homeschooling. Kindergarten. 😊😊 your videos have been so helpful to me because you have an only & so do I.

I have a third, sixth and eighth grader and I'm also looking forward to using the Right Start math games.

Love your choices and the lack of pressure of finishing thick workbooks. It should be fun and engaging! Love that you follow her lead. I always have a huge amazon cart after your videos!

This is our first year homeschooling and we're considering Masterbooks for our first and third graders.

Tuttle Twins for the win! We will be reading it as a family after dinners during my daughters kindergarten year and onward.

Wonderful plans! I love that your daughter is a year ahead of mine. 💕

Wow. Your name has come up a bunch in the fb homeschool groups I've been following thia year, but I had no idea you wrote so much of your own curriculum!!! Fun!!! Can't wait to explore your site more. My kiddo is 3rd grade, too😁

I like the idea of using a pre-made curriculum for a co-op.

I have a third grader and love seeing all the Usborne books you are using!

This was such a helpful video! We have some similar things planned, it’s nice to know someone else is reading Sassafras’s Adventures without the additional parts. I love how you follow your daughter’s interests, I find myself at times getting caught up in curriculums, but they never go over well, and I have to remind myself to just follow my kid’s lead.

I love that Emily is in third grade and ahead of my daughter because I get to look ahead and plan which is what love to do. Excited to try something you've created as well!

Thank you for sharing. I’ve been down the curriculum rabbit hole all day!

We are excited to be using your National Parks unit for geography this year. But I can't wait to see inside the Around the World!

Excited to see The Who Was units that you cover. We are also doing a zoology unit that will be a simplified version of what my son does for his senior year.

Those are awesome choices. I have a upcoming 3rd grader and a 1st grader. We are using Grammar Galaxy, Story of the World, and Fun Schooling journals as are main curriculum. I will be adding in a ton of books and games too.

Sounds like a fun year. Can't wait to see what else you have planned. I would love to see what the Right Start math games look like.

We start our new school year Monday!! So excited!

What a fun year you are planning. We are headed into 4th grade and doing Creation to the Greeks.

We are using the gather round homeschool curriculum along with your survival school, national parks, & I plan on getting some of the who was unit studies thru out the year.

I always enjoy seeing your resources. Thanks for this video! I would love to see an in-depth flip through of the Math Journey series. Best wishes for 3rd grade!

I have a 1st and 2nd grader so I love seeing what you use. We love our Usborne products!

Very much looking forward to hearing more about zoology and animals around the word!

I’m a big fan of researching curriculum as well. It’s just so much fun!!

Even though I only have a pre-K/kinder kid. I enjoy your videos so much! A friend introduced me to your RU-vid a few months ago and I enjoy learning from you.

Thanks so much for showing us your curriculum! We have a third grader also. One Evan Moor book we will be using is their Paragraph book.

We are using TG&TB for our spine and adding lots of other fun things.

I just subscribed to your channel and have been hooked....I love lots of your resources! I have been so disappointed when buying box curriculum and it is refreshing to listen to you and how you homeschool. Thank you for all the information! I am going to binge watch your channel. I have a 3rd grader and a 5th grader!

I just got your Survival School, now I cannot wait for Traveling the World!

We just discovered the Who Was Series and love it. I need to check out your resources that correspond. Thanks for all the work you do. I have Grade 3 and Grade 4 boys so I'm always looking for new "out of the box" ways to teach them.

Thank you for sharing your plans for this school year. I ordered the What Your Second Grader Needs to Know and the one for Fifth grade for my two kids. Your videos are so helpful and my son loved your Who Was George Washington unit study. We used it as part of his first grade social studies curriculum. I also ordered The Tuttle Twins series so I'm definitely interested in how that goes for you and Emily. I haven't figured out how to fit them into our schedule...I may start out just as family read alouds and see if they get interested enough to dive deeper. I'm looking forward to your upcoming videos!

Loving all these videos and ideas! I can't wait to include Who was and passport to adventures this year!!!

I love seeing what you are using as my daughter is going into 3rd as well. I’d love to see the right start games in a future video!

I can’t wait to check some of these items out! We are doing Waldock Wizards and Wands and a few other things next year.

We are a Charlotte Mason based family but I love unit studies! My son is starting second grade this year and is interested in cursive as well. I think we are going to start it midway through the year as I want him to work on his print a little bit more.

Oh I would really like to do your national parks curriculum! Thanks for sharing. ❤️

Your choices are great. I look forward to your suggestions and feedbacks all the time. Really thankful that our daughters are the same age.

I absolutely cannot wait to see Traveling the World!!!!

I am a sucker for curriculum videos! I love seeing what other people use. It helps me know what all is out there! I have one 1st grade daughter. We are using Sonlight History/Bible/Lit B, their Science A and their Language Arts 1. We also will move on to All About Reading 3 and 4 and All About Spelling 1-3 probably this year. Depends on how quickly we get through things. We use Math-U-See Alpha, A Reason for Handwriting, Explode the Code, My Story 1 (Masterbooks), and Starter Spanish (Carson Dellosa). I also just purchased Yellow Spot: Sun Color Theory so we'll see how that goes! It'll definitely be a busy year! I am very interested in seeing more of your new curriculum. I already have my eye on your Magic Treehouse stuff. If it came in smaller bundles I'd be all over it, but I don't know yet if my daughter even likes them yet. We just got 1-4 for her birthday in June! 😊 If she does...well then you know where I'll be headed! ♥️

We have a 3rd grader this year- and we happen to be interest led and “curriculum dabblers” (mama gets bored after a month lol) but we are using Math U See and TGTB (all year 😉) and “Traveling the Parks”. And possibly some “Passport to Adventure”, outschool, Mel Science, Slime Kits, Science Kits, lots of hikes, and whatever else grabs our interest or sparks our curiosity. This is the first year I’ve decided to give myself permission to “dabble” and use a variety of resources.

I love that you follow her lead and interests. I can't wait to follow along this year.

Patiently waiting to see the Traveling the World curriculum!! I have a second grader. We're using your Survival, Traveling the Parks and Who Was units this year plus Bravewriters Dart and Jot It Down and Rightstart Math.

Would love to see a flip through of the right start card games.

I have a third grade daughter this year too (and a 1st grader and 6th grader---both boys). We'll be using The Good and the Beautiful for her LA and Math. History and Science will be kind of hodge-podgy with some TGATB units mixed in with other topics of interest. We're also going to do All About Spelling as a group since her older brother struggles with spelling and her younger brother is just getting started, so I figured we could all start at the beginning with everyone together. Since it's only our second year of homeschooling, I still feel a little overwhelmed with all of the possibilities, but my "one thing" for this year is to incorporate a morning basket. I appreciate so much all of your ideas on morning basket themes!

I have that usborne write your own storybook to inspire me to start writing again.

I have one daughter in 3rd grade this year. We are using Saxon Math 3, Notgrass Our Star Spangled Story for history, All About Reading level 4 with a grammar workbook from Amazon and Sassafras Zoology as well! It is only a half year science so depending if my 1st and 3rd grade like it we will do book 2 the human body for the second half of the year or just find something else.

This is my 1st year homeschooling. You have given me so many ideas. Thank you!

My kids love the Passports to Adventure!

Love your videos and your planner!! I have a 4th, 1st 3 year old and 9 month old. The materials I’m most excited about are Brave Writer and Wild Math💕

My kiddo is starting 2nd grade this year. We are sticking with our morning basket hymn, bible reading, artis, and classic book. We are moving on from My Father's World to Gather Round and Five in a Row, which should be less time and more all around learning or subjects, as we will also be doing more student directed learning. I am trying to simplify with children that a 7,4, and 8 months, not keep getting more, but its so hard when there are so many amazing curriculums out there. I saw an adorable one on The Hundred Acre Woods yesterday!

As always, your school plans look fantastic!!! I am super eager to see Exploring the World...especially excited to see which spine you choose. :)

Love watching curriculum choice videos, thanks for sharing. We are doing sassafras science this year too. Looking forward to getting around the world curriculum when it comes out.

I am ordering Tuttle twins also. My 4th grader is using the good and the beautiful math but it is actually level 3 because we didnt finish last years math and we are gonna kinda do a speed through of 3rd and move on to 4th as soon as she finishes. I have the journey through math books like you have here also. Still havent figured out math for my 5th grader. 2nd grader is doing apologia math. Notgrass 50 states along with my fathers world exploring the world I think is what it's called. I have been looking at so much curriculum lately it's all running together. I love watching you. Guest hollow beawolf is what I an using with them all for grammar and language. The way you approach learning is what i desire so much but I get so overwhelmed amd constantly feel like I'm not doing enough and I have 3 kids in different grades plus a 3 year old and I struggle yearly to get things going the way I want.

I grabbed that Evan Moor Daily Fundamentals freebie too!

We might try a new STEM program put out by Barnes and Noble, Story Design. It seems like it would be perfect to do with some homeschooling friends.

My daughter is going into 4th grade. We use Gather ‘Round and a coordinating Brave Writer Book and dart/quiver of arrows guide. Then I pull in resources that coordinate with the unit study theme. I get most of my ideas from you! We have enjoyed your Traveling the Parks this summer. Looking forward to Traveling the World! For math, we use Good and Beautiful, Touch Math, Mathtacular, Bedtime Math, Mathematical Reasoning, and a variety of games. Math is her weak subject so we use a variety.

Love your choices. My oldest will be in 1st grade, but you always give me plenty of inspiration which I appreciate.

I have a second grader this year. It's fun that you are 1 year ahead...it helps me with future planning! 😉

I have a third grader as well so I love seeing your selections and ideas! For my 3rd grader, we’re using All About Reading and All About Spelling, Math Made Fun, Evan Moor Geography Skill Sharpeners, Critical Thinking Company Mind Benders, the Lego class you recommended (which he’s in right now too and is loving!), your Traveling the Parks curriculum, then whatever else he wants to do. We’re also using Let’s Play School. It’s mainly for my kindergartener but my 3rd grader loves it too. I would love more info on the Right Start Games and the Tuttle Twins books and game. I can’t wait to see your Traveling the World curriculum!

My daughter is in 4th grade but I love watching your videos

Thank you! Love your Who was series! And can’t wait to see more of your zoology unit study!

Super fun choices! We are also starting cursive this year, I really like the wooden cursive board you chose to add. I just uploaded my first-grade curriculum video today, I'm so excited to get started. We added quite a few new things for first grade, but we are continuing on with some of our favorites such as All About Reading and Dimensions Math! We love utilizing Outschool and Reading Eggs :)

Great giveaway! You have so many fun things in your shop! I have a 4th grade and we use a mixture of things. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get to some of the fun things more, so I think we will implement the fun/enrichment day!!

I am absolutely amazed at the amount of planning you have put into your homeschool.

Great to see your choices! I am super excited to see, travelling the world. Thanks for sharing!

This is my first year homeschooling. My son is in 3rd grade. We will be using The Good and the Beautiful.

I love your videos. I am so excited for the traveling the world curriculum. We are starting Passport to Adventures next week.

I can’t wait for Traveling the World. I’ve looked and looked for something like that but I don’t love anything I’ve found. I have loved everything we’ve bought from you so I’m so excited, I’m sure it’ll be great 💕

We love Exploring Nature with Children! I hope you’re able to start your nature group back up this school year.

We are using Michael Clay Thompson ELA/ Writing, singapore and beast academy for math, build your library for history and poetry, and I have a diverse selection of read alouds for Lit this year I'm excited 😍

Your videos provide such great inspiration for me! We’re going to be using Waldocks Wizards and Wands, so I am SUPER excited for that!

I hadn’t heard of some of these. Thank you for sharing! I love your creative approach.

Love your videos! This one was great! I’m very excited to see more of the Travel the world. I love that you go based upon her interests! ❤️

I love that you are letting her take the path on subjects. When I was in elementary school we had are regular English math subjects but then a unit study, you don't realize how much you are actually learning. I'm horrible at spelling but was already learning about doing research and interesting things with real math science and math directly mixed in. This helped in middle school because are English and social studies do a joint project every semester where we had to research things and write a full 5 paragraph essay. Then in 8th grade English worked with science, we had a science fair, but it wasn't just doing an experiment, it was learning how to write up the experiment in the proper way with then sitting sources. High school continued like that but I went to an ultra orthodox all girls high school do I had dual education my entire school life. But they tied things together where we ended up producing a unit study all written up and sorced the correct way with the reasrch coming from the Torah and other things but put together in the presentation mode. Science and math worked close together sometimes and with history and literature it was always on the same topic like Greek literature and Greek history. I was very fortunate and in 12th grade they brought in community College teachers and we took actual college courses that counted for both. When I got to college first I got to skip most of the intro classes which worked much better than a.p. credits. But people had some much trouble figuring out how to research, how to write papers and even how to present topics. Do i use my college degree no, but learning with everything put together is how the real world works. Yes you need the core things but you also have to nurture intrests because the kids don't realize how much they are actually learning. I wish I could home school but I'm a single foster mom who works full-time at home and had an in house babysitter before the virus so I could work. I did buy a ton of the books and games you mentioned to supplement but I never know when they are going to leave my home, reunification is the best, though one of the kids is looking more like an adoption case. Outschool has saved my life and depending on what school is for this coming year it might be 2 days a week in school and the other online I have been looking into hiring someone to supplement their education.it will keep them busy letting me work but also letting them learn. Even if I adopted i doubt I would go the home school way just because of the nature of my job. We do tons of read a louds and crafting things. I'm loving the kiwi company subscription boxes. You are setting her up for a great future

Hi, new here to Homeschooling. I currently have a 3rd grader and recently stumbled upon your channel and have been binging on your videos today. So much awesome information and I cannot thank you enough for sharing your knowledge.

Excited to see what you think about the government books!

Awesome choices. I would love to see more of the Right Start math games and the Usborne writing books. Thanks for sharing It’s our first year doing Prek/kindergarten so we are still figuring it out. She enjoys science, art and nature so probably a good bit of those things.

I just found your channel and I feel like I "found my people". I'm a covid homeschooler with an only child 3rd grade daughter. While homeschooling was accidental for me, I don't feel upset about it because the idea was always appealing to me (though i do wish circumstances to get here were better!). I am facing this upcoming year with a weird combo of both anxiety and excitement. Thank you for your content, I've already gleaned some good ideas to help me on this journey from your videos.

So much fun! I’m so excited to see your new products coming out. We’re using math facts that stick per your suggestion along with minecraft math work books, we will also be using Waldock’s Wizards & Wands for our history, language arts and a few unit studies, all about reading, and laying down the rails with lots of other fun games and books thrown in there.

We have a 2nd and 4th grader (and youngers)! I just finished our curriculum hauls....mostly The Good and The Beautiful! There are a few subjects that you definitely inspire me to be a little more free with (and not tied to a curriculum)!

Thanks for sharing with us. I love seeing your game choices. My son had dyslexia and I am wanting to include more games this year. I will have to look into the right start math games more in depth.

I have a 3rd grader and it is our first year homeschooling! We have chosen to go with TGTB as a core/spin but I'm always willing to venture out on my own!

Thanks for getting me hooked on Usborne books now 😁🤗

I have been wanting to get one of those tracing boards for a while. I may try one for my reluctant writer!

Looks like great choices! My oldest is a third grader too!

Great video! I have a 3rd & 2nd grader. We are using MFW and Evan Moor. 📚

I love all of your ideas, you sound like such a fun homeschool mom! I would like to see inside the Tuttle Twins books, Usborne Wipe Clean books, and the Right Start Math Games!

Love your videos, super informative! Love to see how you tailor your homeschool for your daughter.

I love all your ideas for themes! I’ve bought so much that you recommend. Thank you for sharing!!

I wish you had been doing this years ago when I was homeschooling my oldest kid. Such fabulous resources! Lucky that I have found you now though, because I’m sure that my younger children will really benefit from your videos in the future.

We are new to homeschooling and to your channel. I loved this video and your unit study ideas!

I’m so excited to see what you come up with for Zoology!

We are using the Tuttle Twins this year too. I'm excited about it. I love that you incorporate yum boxes. What a great idea!

Looks like a fun year! My son is third grade also this coming school year and we like you play a lot of games. We are excited to do the National Parks curriculum you made and will also try one of The Who was units as well as Survival School. I’d love to check out those Usborne times and Division dry erase ones... we are doing beast academy 2 C and D, just a couple lessons a week so we will go slowly w them as well as life of Fred and lots of games. We are also doing AAR and AAS as those seem to work best for my son. Everything else is interest led and what I already mentioned above. Love your videos and FB page! 🤗

Loved seeing your third grade choices! I would love to see more about the Right Start math game!