If it helps, I'm planning to do Real Science Odyssey Chemistry next year for my 5th and 2nd grader since that's the grade range they recommend it for.

Just wondering, were you using the regular version or the Duolingo Kids app? I think it's only available for iPhone and iPad so I haven't used it, but am curious how it differs.

Bible: I think we'll just read through Egermeier's storybook Bible this year for all three kids since parts of it will tie in with our history curriculum. Math: Singapore Math 5 Language Arts: Wordsmith Apprentice, All About Spelling 5, finishing cursive and then adding in Word Roots Beginning, as well as some readers I'm still picking out. I thought about Fix It Grammar 3, but they changed the order of the stories so he'd just end up doing Robin Hood again like he's doing this year. History/geography: History Quest Early Times, including activity book. Not sure how much of the copywork we'll end up using from it. Science: REAL Science Odyssey Chemistry La Clase Divertida level 2 for Spanish Scholastic newspapers Hopefully gymnastics I'm still looking into the "Let's Make Great Art" series for art. Not sure about music yet. I might look into public school for art/music but not sure if it will be possible.

We've used REAL Science Odyssey by Pandia Press, and enjoyed it. It focuses on simple labs and readings, and we usually find some good books to go with it. We do it twice a week, so I feel like it gives them a good overview of scientific investigation and modeling while leaving plenty of time for them to do their own explorations.

I love it. I was using an all-in-one language arts curriculum for my 6-year-old and I think he had a bit of a "summer slide" between K and 1st grade and I realized that trying to do it all together just wasn't working for us and I didn't have enough teacher experience to try and tweak the curriculum we had. I was hesitant to invest in AAR but it helped that I have two other kids in the pipeline so I figured it would get plenty of use. The biggest thing it did for us was confidence -- my son just needed to take a step back to the phonogram basics, which is where level 1 starts, so he could learn at a more gradual, logical pace, and I needed something that was very thoroughly laid out so I didn't have to be constantly questioning if I'd missed something. Now I'm using it with kid #2 and she ended up picking up a lot of sight words on her own so at this point, near the end of level 3, it's mostly just to help fill in some gaps, but she still loves the games -- we didn't use the fluency sheets much with her. We also barely used the readers after level 2 because they got a bit too long too quickly for both of my kids -- so holding off on ordering those (they're expensive but probably have decent resale value) could save some money in the later levels for some people.

I've been curious about History Quest too, especially how it compares to Story of the World. I want to start from the beginning with history the year after next, so it seems like a good time to pick a comprehensive program. It sounds like they are similar, with HQ being more secular. It sounds like HQ might be more concise to fit into a typical school year? I think the SotW book was over 40 chapters, which may mean more squeezing in order to fit into a year -- but I don't know for sure.

My second 1st grader also... it goes by too fast! Bible: Doing Telling God's Story year 4 with both the 4th grader and 1st grader -- hopefully there will be some activities that work for both of them. Also Slugs & Bugs CDs for memorization. Math: Singapore 1A and 1B Phonics: Will probably finish AAR level 2 this year, so will move on to 3 and 4 next year, probably using some simpler readers like Arnold Lobel books and some Dr. Seuss to start. Not sure what we'll do after level 4... might just start WWE level 1, but will play it by ear. We'll definitely do some Mad Libs for fun. Handwriting: HWOT printing book Spelling: Just started AAS level 1, so will continue with that -- might make it to level 2 History: Second half of US history, using some Sonlight spines and other history books and read-alouds, like the American Girls books. I'd like to find some ideas for making history more hands-on next year, since I'm kind of randomly looking on Pinterest for things this year so it's not much. Science: Real Science Odyssey Astronomy 1, with 4th grader too. But it's only half the year so we'll need to find something else -- maybe something for nutrition since our state requires us to cover health. Fine Arts: I'll mostly just let her do her own thing with drawing and making comics... might try teaching recorder this year but I don't know if she'll be too young.

These threads are super helpful! My oldest will be in 4th grade next year and I have a decent idea of what to do, and just placed a big curriculum order... Bible: Year 4 of Telling God's Story, and Slugs and Bugs CDs for memorization Math: Singapore 4A and 4B Language Arts: FLL level 4 Spelling: AAS 4 and Homophone worksheets Handwriting: Finishing up the current cursive book, then playing it by ear to see if he wants to do another one Writing: Finishing WWE 2 and hopefully moving on to 3 before the year's over I want to start Word Roots eventually, but I think it would be too much at this point. History/Social Studies: Second half of American history (starting with Civil War). Doing a combination of Sonlight D and K spines in order to include my 1st grader in it, and using a bunch of other books for the time period. I'm looking forward to using the American Girl sets of Addy and Molly as read-alouds. We're also using Scholastic newspapers for current events, and I have a workbook for geography of the 50 states. Science: Real Science Odyssey Astronomy level 1. Even with supplementation, it will only be about 18 weeks, so I'm not sure what to do for the rest of the year. Probably something with nutrition and other health topics, since our state requires covering health each year. Fine Arts: He doesn't have any trouble finding things to draw, and makes comics, so I'll probably just let him do his thing. I'd like us to learn the recorder next year though... not sure if I should try and include my 1st grader too. I keep telling myself I'm going to find something on YouTube for Spanish and maybe yoga too, but it never seems to happen....

MasterBooks is the publisher for Answers in Genesis, so it's possible that those affiliated with AIG (or just strongly young-earth creationist in general) are drawn to their curriculum for homeschooling, especially if AIG has been advertising it.