Curriculum · 3rd–5th · Ages 8–11
3rd, 4th, and 5th grade homeschool curriculum
Third through fifth grade is when most kids move from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn. Math gets more procedural (multiplication, fractions, long division), history opens up as a multi-year cycle, and writing becomes its own subject.
What a typical day looks like
60–90 minutes of math and language arts per day, a weekly writing focus, daily independent reading, and a history/science rotation. Many classical programs enter their first trip through the four-year history cycle at this age. Science becomes more content-driven, life science in one year, earth science the next, and so on.
Methods that fit this age
Classical and Charlotte Mason (narration-heavy lessons) programs serve this band, as do traditional textbook programs (Abeka, BJU Press, Christian Light) with grade-leveled scope and sequence.
What it tends to cost
Complete 3rd–5th programs run $300–$700 for the year. Math specialists (Saxon, Singapore, Beast Academy, Teaching Textbooks) add $150–$250 per year. Writing specialists (IEW, Writing and Rhetoric) add $80–$200.
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A.C.E. (Accelerated Christian Education)
→Self-paced PACE workbook curriculum covering K-12 in twelve subjects.
Abeka
→Complete textbook-driven K-12 curriculum from Pensacola Christian College, presented from a Christian perspective.
Acton Academy
→Network of learner-driven microschools; studios use Socratic discussion, mastery software, and hands-on quests.
Adventure Academy
→An Age of Learning MMO-style educational game covering elementary and middle-grade academics through quests, mini-games, and virtual classrooms.
AHS Worldwide
→Accredited LDS-oriented K-8 online and distance program from American Heritage School.
The Alveary (Charlotte Mason Institute)
→Charlotte Mason curriculum created by the Charlotte Mason Institute, with daily lesson plans for grades 1-12 sold as an annual family membership.
Amanda Bennett's Unit Studies
→Library of downloadable unit studies from Unit Study Adventures covering topics such as elections, Olympics, baseball, and apologetics.
Ambleside Online
→Free Charlotte Mason curriculum covering all twelve years of Charlotte Mason's Parents' Union School schedule.
American Heritage Education
→American Heritage is a small Catholic homeschool curriculum publisher. Its books emphasize American Catholic saints, American founders' engagement with Catholicism, and American Catholic historical experience.
American Heritage School
→Utah LDS-oriented private K-12 with American Fork and Salt Lake City campuses.
Angelicum Academy
→Angelicum Academy is a Catholic Great Books program for homeschool high school and college students, using small online discussion groups that read primary texts with trained tutors.
Aquinas Learning
→Catholic classical co-op program structured around weekly in-person community days, using a Great Books and classical trivium framework.
Artios Academies
→A cooperative network delivering Charlotte Mason-informed enrichment and fine-arts classes one day weekly across US chapter locations.
Ascent Advantage Academy
→Open-and-go LDS K-12 program with live online classes and Grandma K's curriculum.
Beehive LDS Schooling
→Low-cost video and PDF LDS homeschool curriculum from preschool through grade 12.
BJU Press
→BJU Press says it produces Pre-K through grade 12 educational materials with a biblical worldview; its homeschool site sells textbook kits and video courses, online through the Homeschool Hub or on DVD.
BookShark
→Complete, literature-based homeschool curriculum, sold by age-based level, that its publisher describes as secular and faith-neutral and fully planned on 36-week, 4-day schedules.
Build Your Library
→Secular Charlotte Mason-inspired literature-based K-10 curriculum available as digital downloads.
By Study and Faith
→Latter-day Saint Charlotte Mason homeschool framework with companion book and curated resources.
Calvert Learning
→Fully online accredited K-12 homeschool program.
Catholic Heritage Curricula (CHC)
→Catholic Heritage Curricula publishes Catholic elementary homeschool materials.
Catholic Schoolhouse
→Catholic classical co-op program with weekly community meetings and three-year history rotation.
Christian Liberty Academy
→Accredited Christian home-school correspondence program from Christian Liberty Press offering curriculum packages and official transcripts for K-12.
Christian Light Publications
→Mennonite LightUnit workbook-based curriculum for K-12, designed to be largely self-directed by older students.
Christopherus Homeschool Resources
→Pragmatic Waldorf homeschool curriculum with downloadable guides for grades K-8.
Classical Conversations
→Christian classical co-op model with weekly in-person community days and memory-work-based curriculum.
Classical Conversations Foundations
→Classical Conversations' Foundations program for age 4 and up, with weekly community meetings and memory work in history, science, English, geography, math, and Latin.
Classical Liberal Arts Academy (CLAA)
→Catholic classical online academy offering a trivium-based K-12 program centered on Latin, logic, and the Great Books. Cognia-accredited since 2024.
Covenant Home Curriculum
→Confessionally Reformed Christian correspondence curriculum covering K-12, with a classical philosophy and enrollment-based counselor support.
Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool
→Free Christian online homeschool curriculum covering preschool through twelfth grade, fully web-based.
Edgenuity (Imagine Learning)
→Full-curriculum online platform offering core and elective courses for K-12 including AP, credit recovery, and initial credit.
Ensign Peak Academy
→Accredited online LDS K-12 private school built around small live Learning Communities.
Five in a Row
→Unit-study curriculum built around picture books, reading one book five days in a row and exploring subjects through it.
Gather 'Round Homeschool
→Family-style Christian unit-study curriculum designed to teach multiple ages together around a single theme per month.
The Gentle + Classical Press
→Christian curriculum company blending Charlotte Mason, classical, Montessori, and unit-study approaches across preschool through high school.
A Gentle Feast
→Charlotte Mason curriculum with a four-year history rotation, designed for family-style learning.
The Good and the Beautiful
→Homeschool curriculum with free digital K-8 language arts and math.
Good Soil Project
→Catholic Charlotte Mason curriculum offering liturgical-year-integrated schedules, living books lists, and nature study for preschool through middle school.
Grace Academy of North Austin
→University-Model school in Austin, Texas combining two or three on-campus class days with parent-led home study days for grades K-12.
Great Hearts Academies
→Network of tuition-free classical public charter schools that also offers Great Hearts Online and publishes booklists.
Griggs International Academy
→Accredited Seventh-day Adventist distance-learning school offering kindergarten through grade 12 courses, owned and operated by Andrews University.
Hagia Sophia Classical Academy
→K-12 Orthodox classical school in Indianapolis with a Friday enrichment program open to homeschooling families.
Hands of a Child
→Lapbook-focused unit-study publisher offering more than 200 Project Packs on historical, science, and literature topics for grades K-8.
Heart of Dakota
→Charlotte Mason-inspired unit-study curriculum with a box-open-and-go plan-book format.
Heart of Wisdom
→Hebrew-roots-influenced Christian unit-study curriculum, organizing all learning around the biblical calendar and Hebraic worldview.
Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum
→A free K-12 classical curriculum published by Hillsdale College, emphasizing American founding principles, Western tradition, and content-rich sequenced instruction.
Holy Spirit Press
→Holy Spirit Press is a Catholic publisher specializing in religion materials, saints' resources, and selected curriculum pieces. It is not a complete homeschool curriculum.
Homeschool Connections
→Catholic online live-class provider offering courses in all major subjects, taught by Catholic teachers, for middle and high school homeschoolers.
International Torah Academy
→Orthodox Jewish K-12 online and distance-learning school with an integrated Torah and secular curriculum.
Ivy Bridge Academy / Enlightium Academy
→Online classical Christian academy offering accredited K-12 courses integrating a Christian worldview with a classical and college-preparatory curriculum.
The Jewish Online School
→WASC-accredited live-online Orthodox Jewish school for K-12 students without local access to a yeshiva or day school.
Johns Hopkins CTY
→The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, offering assessment-based advanced online courses for academically talented learners in grades K-12.
KaiPod Learning
→In-person learning pod network where students complete an online curriculum of their choice alongside other learners with a credentialed in-person coach.
Kimber Academy
→LDS God-Family-Country academy with Utah campuses and a Kimber@Home program.
Kolbe Academy
→Accredited Catholic classical homeschool program with optional online courses and diploma track.
KONOS Character Curriculum (Compass)
→Scheduled three-year version of KONOS for grades 1-8 with the KONOS Compass planner walking parents week by week through the original character units.
Laurel Springs School
→A regionally accredited private K-12 online school with flexible self-paced scheduling.
Liahona Preparatory Academy
→Accredited LDS K-12 private academy with on-campus and distance education tracks.
LIFEPAC (Alpha Omega Publications)
→Print Christian curriculum for grades K-12 from Alpha Omega Publications, which AOP describes as self-paced, mastery-based workbook learning.
Live Education!
→Waldorf homeschool curriculum from an Anthroposophical perspective for grades 1-8.
Living Books Curriculum
→Charlotte Mason curriculum providing a full K-8 program of living books, narration, and copywork grounded in Mason's volumes.
Masterbooks
→Affordable open-and-go Christian young-earth curriculum with a strong Charlotte Mason and unit-study flavor.
Mater Amabilis
→Mater Amabilis is a free Catholic Charlotte Mason curriculum. It is a framework and curated booklist rather than a published program.
Melamed Academy
→Orthodox Jewish online yeshiva day school offering K-12 Torah and general studies to homeschoolers.
Memoria Press
→Publisher of classical Christian education materials for home and private schools, selling Classical Core Curriculum sets from preschool through grade 12 with a special emphasis on Latin.
Memoria Press Classical Core Curriculum
→Full-year classical Christian curriculum sets from Preschool through Twelfth Grade, each with a Curriculum Manual of day-by-day lesson plans, with a special emphasis on Latin.
Memoria Academy
→Online classical Christian school that says it was founded in 2006, offering live audio and video classes for grades 3-12 in Latin, logic, classical studies, literature, mathematics, history, and more.
The Mindful Heart
→LDS Christian heart-first homeschool curriculum spanning preschool through age 17.
Monarch (Alpha Omega Publications)
→Online homeschool management system and curriculum from Alpha Omega Publications, with a catalog of 100+ courses for grades 3-12.
Mother of Divine Grace School
→Accredited Catholic classical homeschool program applying Dorothy Sayers's classical trivium.
Moving Beyond the Page
→Age-based secular literature and unit-study curriculum for ages 4-14 combining novels, nonfiction, and hands-on projects across language arts, social studies, and science.
My Father's World
→Christian unit-study curriculum blending Charlotte Mason methods with weekly topical focus and a multi-year history rotation.
Oak Meadow
→Waldorf-inspired secular homeschool curriculum with optional accredited distance-learning enrollment.
Oak Meadow Distance Learning
→An accredited, Waldorf-inspired distance-learning school and curriculum publisher, offering the accessibility of Waldorf-adjacent pedagogy with the option of transcript-generating enrollment.
Oak Meadow Portfolio
→The portfolio-evaluation and accredited distance-learning service from Oak Meadow, issuing transcripts for Oak Meadow and independent homeschoolers.
Our Lady of Victory School (OLVS)
→Traditional Catholic homeschool program whose textbooks are mostly pre-Vatican II reprints and whose theology is pre-conciliar.
Prenda
→Microschool platform pairing small in-home learning pods with adaptive software and a guide.
Purposeful Design (ACSI)
→Purposeful Design is ACSI's K-8 textbook line covering Bible, reading, math, science, and social studies from a general evangelical Christian worldview.
Reformation Christian Ministries
→A Reformed Christian homeschool curriculum publisher offering complete K-12 programs with strong emphasis on Scripture, worldview, and history.
Regina Caeli Academy
→Regina Caeli Academy is a hybrid Catholic school in which students attend a physical academy two days per week and homeschool three days, guided by a formal curriculum.
Rod and Staff Publishers
→Traditional Mennonite publisher offering plain-style textbooks for grades 1-10.
Schola Rosa
→Catholic classical co-op curriculum and online class provider with a liturgical-year-integrated approach for grades K-8.
Schole Academy
→Scholé Academy offers live, classical, Christian online courses led by teachers in small, cameras-on classrooms, for grades K through 12.
Scholé Groups
→Network of parent-led classical co-ops built around Classical Academic Press's scholé philosophy of restful learning, feast-style seminars, and shared mentoring.
Schoolaid
→Plain-community educational publisher producing arithmetic, language arts, and phonics workbooks for use in Amish parochial schools and conservative Mennonite home education.
SchoolhouseTeachers.com
→A flat-fee Christian homeschool membership offering several hundred self-paced courses across grade levels and subjects from multiple contributors.
Seton Home Study School
→Accredited Catholic homeschool program offering complete K-12 curriculum with Catholic-school structure and counselor support.
Simply Charlotte Mason
→Family-style Charlotte Mason curriculum designed to teach multiple children together with rotating history and science.
Simply Classical Curriculum
→Memoria Press's classical Christian curriculum adapted for students with significant learning challenges, created by Cheryl Swope and sold as level sets from My First Words through Levels 11 and 12.
Socratic Experience / Alpha School ecosystem
→Live, online Socratic seminars and project-based learning from the Socratic Experience, designed for homeschoolers in grades 3-12.
Sonlight
→Sonlight describes itself as a complete, Christian, literature-based homeschool curriculum for preschool through high school.
St. Athanasius Academy
→K-12 live-online academy of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese serving homeschooling families.
St. Raphael School
→Live-online Orthodox classical school for homeschooling K-12 families, a school-within-a-school at Scholé Academy.
Study Time Publishers
→Plain-community educational publisher offering workbooks and readers for Amish and conservative Mennonite school and home settings.
Switched-On Schoolhouse (Alpha Omega Publications)
→Computer-based Christian curriculum on CD-ROM from Alpha Omega Publications for grades 3-12, released in 1997 and now discontinued by AOP.
Timberdoodle
→Eclectic curriculum-kit retailer selling pre-curated grade-level boxes combining curriculum, manipulatives, games, and thinking-skill resources.
Time4Learning
→Subscription-based secular online homeschool curriculum with interactive lessons for preschool through high school.
Torchlight Curriculum
→Inclusive secular literature-based curriculum for grades K-8 with deliberate attention to diverse author representation.
Trail Guide to Learning (Geography Matters)
→Unit-study curriculum from Geography Matters integrating history, geography, language arts, and science through Paths of Exploration, Settlement, and Progress.
Tree of Life Homeschool
→Messianic-oriented homeschool curriculum integrating Torah portions, the biblical calendar, and Christian faith with academic subjects for elementary grades.
University-Model Schools Association
→Membership association that trains and accredits University-Model schools nationally; member schools combine central-campus days with home-study days.
Veritas Press
→Classical Christian online academy and print curriculum from a Reformed theological perspective.
Veritas Scholars Academy (Veritas Press Online School)
→Veritas Scholars Academy is the online school arm of Veritas Press, the classical Christian publisher. The online academy delivers the curriculum with live instruction.
Well-Trained Mind Academy
→Well-Trained Mind Academy is the online school arm of Well-Trained Mind Press, the publisher of *The Well-Trained Mind*. The academy delivers Well-Trained Mind's pedagogy with live teachers in a secular-friendly classical framework.
Wildwood Curriculum
→A free secular Charlotte Mason curriculum offering year-by-year booklists and schedules drawn from public-domain living books.
Wilson Hill Academy
→Wilson Hill Academy offers classical Christian education online.
WinterPromise
→Literature- and Charlotte Mason-inspired themed curriculum packages covering history, science, and language arts from a Christian perspective.
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