Home School Posts, Curriculum Choices
Meggen Loew
2026 Homeschool Curriculum Choices: A Switch to ...

Our new school year is here.   While most families are settling back into their home school rhythms from before the holidays, we begin our first official school day of the new school year. Curious as to why? Well, if you're new to following us, it is because we adopted a year-round homeschool schedule (which I go over in more depth HERE). Basically, because our yearly schedule is often unpredictable with travel, staying within a traditional school-year calendar (August to June) wasn't working out. While one shouldn't feel "behind" in one's homeschooling journey, I did, and it was overwhelming. I switched to a year-round calendar and began our year in January almost 6-7 years ago now, and haven't looked back. While we are no longer new to year-round schooling, we have decided to take a different approach to our school days this year. We have been (and I still am) a big fan of Sonlight History/Bible/Literature. It is no longer sustainable or a workable option for us. With three kiddos now needing instruction and time with me, and a 2-year-old running chaos amongst us, I was being pulled in six different directions, and our homeschool magic learning atmosphere was missing. Enter in family unit studies, a new approach to learning for us that I am excited to share with you as I share our curriculum choices for the 2026 school year.

2026 Homeschool Curriculum Choices: A Switch to Family Unit Studies and More
FAQ About Homeschooling, Curriculum Choices, Home School Posts
Meggen Loew
How Do I Choose Curriculum, and What About the ...

In many homeschool groups on the online space, parents are asking for the best curriculums out there. Very rarely will a whole collective group of homeschooling parents agree on what the best curriculum of all time is. Because really, there isn’t the best curriculum for everyone, but there is the best curriculum for your particular family unit. No homeschooling family is alike.

There are literally thousands of curriculum choices out there. From all-in-ones, piecing together, hodge-podge, you name it, and it is out there, with technology, homeschooling curriculum, and choices have become a lot more readily available than they once were.

How Do I Choose Curriculum, and What About the Cost?

5 Trial and Errors: How I Often Failed In our Home School

5 Trial and Errors: How I Often Failed In our Home School

I have been homeschooling our oldest child now for three years. In that time, I have, unfortunately, had a lot of trials and errors, as far as how we run home school in our home, and the curriculum we have chosen. When looking back on it I have come across some reasons why things have not worked for us. This post deals with how I failed had to reexamine home school life in our house and decide what was not working and why and the changes I made to start making things work for us and get that “ah ha moment” of home school bliss.

The Best Job: I Never Knew I Always Wanted

The Best Job: I Never Knew I Always Wanted

When meeting new people, as I often do in our travels, I am asked “what do you do?”. For some people, the stereotype of a being a stay at home mom, let alone a stay at home mom that homeschools, is not very glamour’s sounding. I often get the sympathetic look of shock from people from their initial reaction and I always respond with “It’s the best job, I never knew I always wanted” and it truly is. I am immensely proud of both job titles.