2025-2026 School Year Summary (7th, 5th, 4th, & 1st grades)

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This post shares our homeschool year summary for 5 kids ages 4-13, including curriculum used, books read, and other activities completed. Encouragement for homeschooling moms that a simple homeschool is truly enough!

Once again we are closing in on the end of another school year! The grass is green, the flowers are blooming, the sandhill cranes are squawking (yodeling? whooping?), and here in Wisconsin the ticks are, most unfortunately, biting.

Spring is here, and WOW, is it hard to spend the day on school when the weather is so mild! Since our Classical Conversations year ended at the beginning of April, we’ve been on a lighter schedule… still finishing up some books and some math, but also getting outside as much as we can.

We don’t have a definite end date in mind, but my tentative plan is to keep our current routine through the end of May and then switch to some sort of a summer routine.

One massive change that we’ve never experienced before: for the last two months or so, our backyard has somehow become a sort of hangout place for the neighborhood children. I’m not totally sure how it happened, but nearly every single day, in the later afternoon, we have had at least one (often up to 7 or 8!) extra child(ren) playing in the backyard with our kids.

Overall, I’m very very pleased with this, and I would much rather have all the children gathering here instead of my children going off other places. However, it’s definitely a new dynamic to navigate and we are still working out how we want to handle this. I may have to buy stock in popsicles, based off the amount we have consumed already this spring.

favorite discovery in our new yard thus far: this STUNNER of a crab apple

However: back to the topic at hand! Here is our homeschool year summary for 5 kids, with a list of what they completed individually and what we did together as a family. I hope it will be an encouragement to you to see that a) you don’t have to do EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN and b) our little bits of faithful, consistent work really do add up to a full and bountiful year of learning.

Homeschool Year Summary for 5 Kids (By Grade)

7th Grade – 13 years old

This year, he finished:

homeschool boy standing in front a whiteboard with a map he drew

5th Grade – 11 years old

This year, he finished:

homeschool boy wearing a medieval costume standing in front of a bookshelf

4th Grade – 9 (almost 10) years old

This year, he finished:

homeschool boy holding a large palm tree branch

1st Grade – 6 (almost 7) years old

This year, she finished:

homeschool girl standing in the ocean wearing a blue dress

Preschool – 4 years old

This year, he:

  • scribbled in a lot of tracing & coloring books while his siblings were working on math
  • listened to 80% of our Morning Time readings (the other 20% of the time he wandered off to play in other rooms)
  • learned how to play Uno, Candy Land, and utterly destroyed us all at the Memory Game
  • learned how to spell and write his name
  • gave us all SO many laughs, every single day
homeschool preschool boy standing in front of a large train

Books Read All Together (ages 4-40)

This year during our Morning Time we read and discussed:

Additionally…

  • the three older boys completed another year of piano lessons and performed at a nursing home and an in-home recital; Little Sister started her first year of piano lessons
  • we took a trip to Florida and explored a Wild Bird Sanctuary, several state parks, and took a glass bottom boat ride out to a coral reef
  • we took 2 road trips to northern Minnesota and visited a train museum there
  • all four kids participated in a handcraft fair – making crafts and then selling them
  • all four kids attended the Milwaukee Ballet production of The Nutcracker
  • the two oldest boys trained for and ran a 5K race with me
  • we went to the library 1-2x a month and the zoo 5x
  • we sang hymns together at the piano 3x a week
  • we finished our fifth year of Classical Conversations
  • we moved to a new house!

Conclusion

Take a moment to write down what you did this year, friends! Even if it’s not required by your state, it’s encouraging to see and remember all that you did with your children. Celebrate your successes, and pray for wisdom to learn from your failures (we all have them!).

I’m going to go ahead and quote my own words from last year’s school year summary (is this allowed? is this weird?), because they are still true, they encouraged me this morning, and they are worth reading again.

“However, we must remember that most of the true learning – that which happens in our child’s heart and soul – cannot be seen, quantified, or measured.

We can provide the feast, as Charlotte Mason says, and we can train good habits and offer up our unceasing prayers, but beyond that we must wait in hope, believing in a future unseen harvest.

For example, we read an awful lot of wonderful literature in our homeschool this year. Do I know exactly what these stories have done in my children’s hearts? No, I do not. Perhaps it was nothing. Perhaps one story changed their life forever. More likely it is somewhere in the middle.

However, I believe these books are working for good, I know that I did my part, and I am content to wait and watch for growth to come in its time.

The homeschoolers, like the just, shall live by faith.”

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