2026-2027 HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM PICKS FOR 12TH GRADE | EXCITING NEW CURRICULUM | CHARTER SCHOOL

[00:00:00]Hello, and welcome back to my channel.

[00:00:01]Today, I'm going to be talking about the curriculum I'm using for my 12th grade daughter. I've homeschooled her since kindergarten, so this is a bit weird. I don't even know how to put it into words, but weird for me to talk about her last year of homeschooling, and it's just been such a journey. And God has taught me so much through this homeschooling journey with her, especially. Homeschooling your child kindergarten through 12th grade is not something that I knew was in my path, but the Lord knew best, and I really feel that he has shepherded me the entire time, really walked with me through some hard seasons, and I just can't believe that we are here at her final year of homeschool and launching into college next year. Just really, I mean, I'm sure you can relate. What, right? Like, how did this happen? It's really just wild and beautiful to see that all those days that you were just doing a math lesson or just sounding out words and forming sentences or correcting penmanship just lead up to this. Lessons, uh discussions about real-life things, and just so many thoughts and a lot to try to compact into, you know, how this feels, but it is crazy. And in her last year of homeschooling, we're still with a charter school, so we will be doing things that are approved by the charter school, which is crazy. I don't have books to show you. She will have books.

[00:01:30]They're not, you know, exciting books to show you that I normally would be like showing you all the beautiful homeschool curriculum. These are more stepping into adulthood type courses. She will dual enroll in a few things, and in this final stretch, this summer, she will have taken some time to prep for college apps and writing her essays, uh short and long, whatever schools she decides to apply to. She just wants to be prepared. This school year she's planning to go on her first international mission trip and that is another big one for her. In high school, especially, I really work with her to form her schedule for the year and she kind of wanted a balance, a mix of really challenging courses and then some courses that are going to be easy for her, that are going to be interesting for her, kind of make that a little feast for herself. And so it's cool to see her design her own like feast of an education for this year. She will read normally just books that she enjoys. I will be going through a study with all of my kids at some point, probably be going through it with just her this next year. But, you know how I love to read one-on-one with my middle school and high schoolers, so I put it all on paper. I put together a study called equipped and it includes 30 weeks of reading together, doing activities together. There are a lot of good things to work on character, life skills, your faith. However, the main goal, what I would call the win of the curriculum, would be the connection aspect and that is just having opportunities to be with your son or daughter in their teen years and form bonds, form memories, inside jokes, things like that that would start building the foundation of your relationship for your future adult child. Whatever, you know, mistakes you made in the past or are going to make during these years, these opportunities for connection and bonding and healing is something that I really wanted home school parents to have especially.

[00:03:29]Because as a home school parent, you just have a lot more opportunities to spend time with your kids. Not always do we take those for the quality moments, but we have opportunities to spend with our kid and that includes bad memories that you'd rather forget. So, my thought behind like reading with my kids one-on-one and even creating this curriculum was to have opportunity for good connection, spiritual talks, prayer time together, watching things together, you know, working with your hands together, serving others together, so that it can build these new memories that balance out and also show your child that you are human, you are sinful, and you're there for them, and you love them more than any person on in this world, right? That is something that will be working on, that will be available soon. I will definitely keep you posted on that once I have it all ready for you. Academically, what will be going on her transcript, she will be taking as one of her challenging courses, AP Calculus through High School Math Live. She's been with High School Math Live since geometry, I believe. So, she will be continuing on with them and doing AP Calculus. Another AP course she's taking is literature. She just recently took the AP Lang exam and felt really good about it. And she'll find out results for that in about a month and a half from when I'm filming this video. So, she'll take AP Lit next year with AP Homeschoolers, which is another vendor that she loves a lot. They are not it approved by our charter school, but we do the AG guide to compensate for that. So, she's doing extra work, but she just loves these courses so much and feels that she actually learns a lot from them. So, willing to do the extra work for that, which I'm proud of her for. The next thing she's doing is anatomy honors, and that's with a new vendor we've never used before, but she wanted to take anatomy and that was one of the approved courses where she wouldn't have to do an AG guide. So, we'll see how it goes. It's called Flexpoint Virtual, I think, and it's a self-paced course. So, I will keep you posted on that. She's also going to dual enroll and take a intro to kinesiology course at a community college virtually, so not in person, but take that course online. As you can tell, she's kind of leaning into the science field, so that's why she's going to take anatomy and kinesiology. And for an elective, she'll be taking dance four, basically just for our school, part of her competition team. Hours and hours of dance, she logs those hours and she'll get elective credit for that, which is convenient and great. She will be working through Growing in the Word.

[00:05:53]This is from Simply Charlotte Mason.

[00:05:55]This is the one book that I have to show you, but this is a Bible study designed for grades 7 to 12. Grow in your spiritual life as you study the Bible for yourself. What I love about these is it's reading. It's also these prompts that kind of guide you along through your Bible study, and Sonya Shafer is wonderful with students. I love the way she writes, the way she speaks. So, I think this will be great. So, it is going through part of the New Testament, Ephesians through 2nd Timothy. And here's the table of contents, just an example of what it looks like.

[00:06:27]Graphic organizer. So, she'll be doing that for part of the year for her Bible study. I don't think this will take the full year, but that'll be for her individual Bible study. And along with that, she'll join us for some of our family studies, which happens about three times a week. And then in her second semester, because kinesiology at the community college will be just one semester course, she's leaning on trying like an intro to psychology, something like that, or child development, something like that, just to again have exposure and to put her toes into another idea of a field. And in the fall, like I mentioned, she's most likely going on a mission trip, short-term mission trip, also working on finishing up college applications, any extra exams that she needs to take, and scholarship opportunities. That will be mostly fall. And so, yeah, I think it's a good balance of challenging and kind of lighter courses, and that will be her senior year. I'm just so proud of her.

[00:07:19]If you have a teen, I would love to see you check out my new curriculum when it's available, and I will keep you posted on that. also put a link down below for books that I love for parents of teens, and also for teens to read as well, or to read together. I have a little book list that I've put together, some of our favorites over the last five or six years or so with teens. And so, go ahead and check that out, and I will see you in the next video.