Seventh grade marks a meaningful milestone in our homeschool journey—this is the fifth and final time I’ll be walking through it with one of my kids. After years of experience and fine-tuning, we’ve found what works (and what definitely doesn’t), and I’m excited to share our 7th grade homeschool curriculum for 2025. In this post, you’ll find a detailed look at the resources we’ve chosen for each subject, why they fit our family, and how we’re structuring the year. Whether you’re homeschooling one child or many, I hope our plan sparks ideas and encouragement for your own path.
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7th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Overview
This is indeed the last time I’ll be homeschooling 7th grade. So I’ve learned a thing or two and hope that this year will be a year of growth for my daughter.
Once your kids approach the 7th grade year, it’s a good idea to create a rough outline of a curriculum plan for them from now until they graduate. That way, you know that everything that is required or desired has time to be included in the plan.
Another thing to mention here is that this final 7th grade year for us looks different than it did 10 years ago when my oldest was in 7th grade. Back then, I had a 7th, 6th, 5th, and 2nd grader, so they all did many subjects together.
Now that I’m homeschooling my last child, homeschooling is very different – and looks more like homeschooling an only child! We will still have a 12th grader at home next year, but he’s busy with dual enrollment and highly independent at this point.
So, if you’re homeschooling a 7th grader, and they are your oldest child, with younger siblings beneath, your choices may look different so that you can group multiple kids together. But some of these resources are highly flexible and could still be used with multiple kids.
7th Grade Homeschool Curriculum by Subject
Here’s a breakdown of what we’re using for each subject this year.
Math
I have loved using BJUP Math for K-6 for all five of my kids. In the early years, we kept going through 7th and 8th grade math (Pre-Algebra) and even into the high school math courses. But once I had too many high schoolers who needed periodic help with math, I wasn’t able to jump in as easily. So that’s when we diverted to online math courses, like CTC Math, for many years.
My daughter is excited to try Khan Academy 7th grade math this year. I think it will be a good change for her, with bite-sized lessons, the responsibility to take notes during the video lessons and listen to an online teacher for a change.
Plus, Khan Academy is absolutely free! Sometimes free curriculum is sub-par, but if you know anything about Khan Academy, you know that this isn’t the case. So, I’m pretty excited to get math instruction off my plate going forward, and my daughter is excited to have a change of pace as well. We will let you know how it’s going during the year in our mid-year recap!
Language Arts
This choice was a last-minute pivot for next year! I had already figured out a plan for 7th grade, but changed my mind for several reasons, which I’ll explain.
We’ll be using The Good & The Beautiful’s Language Arts & Literature for 7th grade. I love that my daughter will be able to complete this mostly independently, and that it includes extras like vocabulary, spelling, literature, geography, art, along with writing and grammar.
She learned a lot through completing Writing with Skill 1 last year, but it kinda burnt her out. Every child is definitely different and I’ve learned to remain flexible through the years as we adapt to each season of homeschooling and each child’s learning style.
Now, I know there’s been a ton of drama over TGATB in Christian homeschool circles since the author is a Mormon. However, I’m not concerned about this at all. I’ve seen the curriculum and it’s classic literature and just beautiful curriculum that I think will engage my daughter and help us to have a successful 7th grade language arts experience.
I guess my pushback to this drama would be to ask if you ever let your child read a book not authored by a Christian? If you do – which I’m sure you do! – then why is using TBATB for language arts going to be a problem?
I’ll definitely give a review of TBATB 7th grade Language Arts & Literature course once we’ve had a chance to get into it. Be sure to subscribe to the Homeschool with Moxie YouTube channel so you don’t miss our mid-year recap!
Science
If you’ve followed our 6th grade mid-year recap, you know that last year’s science pick just wasn’t working for us. So we started Apologia’s General Science in the spring and made it through a few modules. We’ll complete that this year for 7th grade, and if we need to, we’ll move on to the next Apologia science course on our list. Because I know that in the high school years, Apologia science is so meaty that it’s almost impossible to complete the full curriculum! So a head start will not hurt.
We’ve been able to use this General Science textbook for several kids. I love the Student Notebook component, but it can be pricey to buy it for each kid.
So a few years ago, I learned about Knowledge Box Central, and that they’ve partnered with Apologia to create digital and printable lap book journals to go along with the Apologia textbooks. They include all the same “On Your Own” questions, along with Study Guides, Review Questions, and Lab Reports that are in the Apologia spiral-bound Student Notebooks – but at a fraction of the cost!
We just print out the sheets we want for each module and keep them in a 3-ring binder.
History/Social Studies
My goal with history is to spend the next two years going through world history, from ancient to modern times. To do this, we’ll use Story of the World as our spine. I do have the Student Workbook on hand. I think I picked it up very inexpensively and haven’t used it yet, but it might come in handy. So, I’ll let you know how we do with SOTW. I love that it’s written in an engaging narrative style for middle schoolers to read and understand on their own.
Electives & Enrichment
To wrap up her 7th grade year, my daughter will complete a few additional electives.
First, she’ll continue piano lessons with her piano teacher – me! 😉 But seriously, learning an instrument is a valuable pursuit as it helps your brain grow and develop, builds confidence, aids in academic learning, and grows kids in character and perseverance as they master the instrument through many years of hard work! I highly recommend it. It was one of the key pursuits of my childhood through college years and still impacts my life today in many ways. I’m a big proponent of private individual music lessons.
Then, my daughter will continue with ASL lessons with a teacher on Zoom. Finding a love of ASL has been so great for my daughter. I’m glad she has this skill that can be built on for the next stage of her schooling and into adulthood if she desires.
Finally, we’ll take about a month this fall and complete the Cursive Knowledge curriculum. This provides a very user-friendly way to get a quick cursive refresher for kids who need it.
Bible
My daughter requested to work through an entire book of the Bible on her own using the inductive method that we’ve taught her! Yes!! This is such a win and a life-skill must-have for your pre-teens and teens.
So, we purchased an inexpensive but beautiful Illuminated Scripture Journal of the Gospel of Mark, and she’ll mark key words as she studies it using the inductive method.
The inductive method helps you study through Scripture in context using these 3 steps:
- Observation: What does the text say?
- Interpretation: What does the text mean?
- Application: What should be my response?
https://www.4onemore.com/inductive-bible-study-samples/If you want to give your kids the life skill of reading and understanding the Bible as they study through entire books, then check out our free samples!
How We Structure Our 7th Grade Homeschool Days
We have a very flexible routine and flow to our day. We wake up when we want and my 7th grader knows what needs done each day. I’m around mostly in the morning to help, so if things carry over after lunch, it will be more independent.
She has a mix of online (math, ASL) and physical curriculum this year. She can complete tasks in any order she wants, but she likes to get math done early since she dreads it most (although she’s good at it!).
I’ve used Trello in the past with my teens to track their assignments. I’ll let you know in our mid-year recap if we use Trello with 7th grade or a simple checklist to stay on track.
Why We Chose This 7th Grade Homeschool Curriculum
This final time homeschooling through 7th grade is definitely very different in many ways than our first 7th grade year. Back then, when our 7th grader was the oldest student, he had 3 brothers close in age that made it possible to do many subjects together.
For this rising 7th grader, she’s more like an only child! Which is so bittersweet after homeschooling five kids for so many years. My homeschool is getting emptier each year and I’m not sure how to feel about it. The only other homeschooler left will be a senior this year and highly independent, with most of his coursework being dual enrollment classes.
So, we made choices of curriculum based on this being a single student working on subject matter by herself and not with a group of siblings. I also wanted to use what I already had on hand and knew would be a good fit (like SOTW), but I was willing to purchase new resources to fit our new season of homeschooling and this particular kid’s learning style (TGATB). Some curriculum is tried and true and has been used for multiple kids (Apologia General Science) and some just fit our needs this year, even though we haven’t used it for 7th grade before (Khan Academy’s 7th grade Math).
Tips for Choosing a 7th Grade Homeschool Curriculum
Depending on if your 7th grader has older or younger siblings, you can still include them in group subjects with multiple ages together. You can do this with most of the content subjects – history, Bible, science, read-alouds/literature, art, music, and more.
You really only need individual curriculum for the skill subjects, like math and language arts.
Final Thoughts on Our 7th Grade Homeschool Curriculum
Once you have a general plan for your year, go ahead and figure out the flow of your day, gather your materials and supplies, and then enjoy your summer. You’ll be ready to jump into your year in the fall.
But hold these plans loosely – as you’ll see in our Mid-Year Recap for 7th Grade sometime after Christmas – some curriculum may not withstand our homeschool needs and we’ll be free to toss it aside and readjust. Because you know your kids best and you don’t need to be a slave to the curriculum.
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