Are you homeschooling first grade?
Creating our new homeschooling by grade level articles has been an incredible trip down memory lane. It honestly seems like just yesterday that I had first graders! Where is the pause button?!
First Grade Homeschool Curriculum: Everything You need To Get Started!
If you’re new here, you must know that we are gifted homeschool curriculum ‘dabblers’
If you haven’t already, I invite you to read our posts from past years. You can find all previous homeschool curriculum and resource posts on this landing page:
Homeschool resource landing pages:
- Homeschooling: Resources by Academic Subject
- Gameschooling: Resources by Academic Subject
- Books: Resources by Academic Subject
- The Best Homeschool Subscriptions and Memberships
Check out My Little Poppies Course Offerings:
- The Lazy Homeschooler’s Guide to Unit Studies
- How to Rock THE MOST IMPORTANT PART of Your Homeschool Day
- Gameschooling 101: How to Add More Play to Your Homeschool Day
Homeschooling 1st Grade: A quick note
I always say that we are “curriculum dabblers” and it’s true! We use a patchwork of creative educational resources. What we use with one child when he is in second grade is often different from what we used with a sibling.
Below, I am sharing our favorite resources for homeschooling first grade from past years. Please do not think that we used all of the resources listed under each subject concurrently. That would be impossible! Just know that the resources listed are ones that our family has enjoyed and I hope they will help you homeschool your first grader.
The Best First Grade Resources for Your Homeschool
Before you begin, please read this because I have a feeling it will help!
To see what homeschooling a first grader looked like in our homeschool, check out these articles:
- Gifted Homeschool Curriculum Choices: K, 1st, and 3rd Grade
- Gifted Homeschool Curriculum Choices: 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade
If you’d like to see our homeschool curriculum choices year by year, you can view them here:
- Homeschool Curriculum Choices Year by Year
- Homeschool Curriculum: How to Ditch the Schedule and Embrace a Lifestyle
Homeschooling 1st Grade: Art & Music
- Art Picture Books
- Music Picture Books
- Art and Music Games
- Doodle Diaries
- Art History Kids
- Simply Charlotte Mason Picture Study Portfolios
- SQUILT Music Appreciation (Read one of our SQUILT reviews here.)
- You ARE An Artist Chalk Pastel Lessons (Read one of our Chalk Pastel reviews here.)
To read more about the resources listed above and many more, check out our elementary school art and music resources here.
Homeschooling 1st Grade: Geography
- Around the World Stories (Read one of our Around the World Stories reviews here.)
- Around the World with Picture Books (Beautiful Feet Books)
- Games for geography
- Geography Picture Books
- Give Your Child the World by Jamie C. Martin
- Globe
- Pin-It Maps (Read our review here.)
- Story of the World
- These fantastic placemats
- Universal Yums (Read more about how we use this resource in our homeschool here.)
To read more about the resources above and many more, check out our geography resource list!
Homeschooling 1st Grade: History
- Around the World Stories (Read one of our Around the World Stories reviews here.)
- Kids’ Animated History with Pipo
- History Picture Books
- Liberty’s Kids
- History games
- Story of the World
To read more about the resources listed above and many more, check out our history resources for elementary school.
Homeschooling 1st Grade: Language Arts Curriculum
Before diving into the resources for your children, I highly recommend these books for parents homeschooling little ones:
Language Arts Resources for 1st Grade:
- All the read-alouds (Need book recs? Check out these picture books that grew readers!)
- All of the audiobooks
- Podcasts
- Language Arts Picture Books
- Draw Write Now
- Language Arts Games
- Handwriting without Tears
- Coffee and Books
- Marie’s Words
- Michael Clay Thompson’s Language Arts program
To read more about the resources listed above and many more, check out our elementary school resource list for language arts.
Homeschooling 1st Grade: Math
- Bedtime Math (series)
- Life of Fred
- Math Picture Books
- Math Games
- Singapore Math
- Beast Academy (We have used both the textbooks and online options with much success!)
To read more about the above math resources and many more, check out our elementary math resource list here!
Homeschooling 1st Grade: Nature Study
- CuriosityStream (Read one of our many CuriosityStream reviews here.)
- Podcasts
- No Sweat Nature Study
- Exploring Nature with Children
- Nature Backpacks
- Nature Picture Books
- THiNK OUTSiDE Boxes
Homeschooling 1st grade: Science Curriculum
- CuriosityStream (Read one of our many CuriosityStream reviews here.)
- Podcasts
- Groovy Lab in a Box
- Science I (with advanced readers) from BookShark
- Building Foundations for Scientific Understanding: A Science Curriculum
- The Best Science Picture Books for Your Homeschool
- Home Science Tools
- KiwiCo crates
- Magic School Bus Science Kits
- Pocket Microscopes
To read more about the above 1st-grade science resources, check out our elementary science resource list!
Gameschooling 1st grade
- Gameschooling Elementary: How to Homeschool with Awesome Games!
- NEVER BOARD LEARNING
Never Board Learning is a private online community for creative parents and educators who enjoy play-based learning and gameschooling. Never Board Learning features a private (non-Facebook) community forum, guest speakers, Q and As, day in the life family spotlights, and a growing resource library filled with challenges, monthly giveaways and promos, documentation resources, and print-and-play activities.
Homeschooling can be almost all fun and games. The NBL Community will help your family to play more and learn lots!
Other resources we used in 1st grade:
New to homeschooling? Check out these resources:
- How to Get Started with Homeschooling
- How to Homeschool Little Ones (Without the Overwhelm)
- 5 Wonderful Homeschool Secrets No One Will Tell You
- 3 Bold Moves to Shake Up Your Homeschool Today!
More homeschool resources for 1st grade and beyond
- Homeschooling by Subject {A Resource Page}
- Gameschooling by Subject {A Resource Page}
- Books by Subject {A Resource Page}
- Homeschool Curriculum Choices by Year {A Resource Page}
- 10 Amazing Homeschool Subscriptions
- There are countless resources available for homeschoolers today, but I firmly believe you could homeschool with a library card and THIS.
