Back-to-School Planning, Curriculum & Supplies

The Back-to-School Resource Guide is your go-to toolkit for starting the homeschool year strong. Whether you’re new to homeschooling or prepping for another year, this guide highlights trusted curriculum, educational tools, and planning resources to help you organize, equip, and inspire your learning environment. From core subjects to creative add-ons, discover everything you need to kick off the school year with confidence.

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American Heritage Education Foundation

www.americanheritage.org

The American Heritage Education Foundation (AHEF) is a trusted non-profit that provides FREE, award-winning, patriotic, downloadable K–12 lesson plans and resources on America’s founding documents, history, and philosophy. Visit www.americanheritage.org.

American School

www.americanschool.org

American School offers accredited courses and full programs in grades 6–12 at an affordable cost. Print and online options are available. Visit www.americanschool.org or call 708-418-2800 to get started today!

Bellerophon Books

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A customer says: “I wanted to express how grateful I am that your company produces . . . beautiful learning resources that inform, preserve tradition, develop appreciation for beauty, and expand one’s imagination.”

Blick Art Materials

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Geared for a wide variety of age and skill levels, we offer hundreds of lesson plans that meet the national standards for visual art. All original, all free at DickBlick.com.

Child Diagnostics/Dianne Craft

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Learn how to identify characteristics of blocked learning gates and start making corrections at home using our successful approach: Midline Therapy, Right Brain “Healing” Teaching, and Targeted Nutritional Strategies.

Easy Grammar Systems

www.easygrammar.com

Increase your child’s grammar scores with award-winning Easy Grammar teaching texts, Daily GRAMS review texts, and Easy Grammar Ultimate Series.

Excalibur Solutions STEM Academy

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Technological literacy was once a competitive advantage. Today, it is a survival skill! Give your children the twenty-first century skills they need to succeed with the Excalibur Solutions STEM Academy!

Ivy Kids Kits

www.ivykidskits.com

Read, play, create, and learn with Ivy Kids literature-centered STEM kits, which include a book and twelve to fifteen creative and educational hands-on activities that are connected to the monthly story.

JAM with Latin

JAMwithLatin.com

Join the Latin revolution! Our digital classroom teaches you, the adult, and your child at the same time. JAM with Latin classes are a modern classical approach to an ancient language.
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Rabbit Trails Homeschool

rabbittrailshomeschool.com

Learn through beautiful books in your homeschool with Rabbit Trails Homeschool! Faith and literature based curriculum for elementary and middle school children. Language arts, science, history, writing, and more.

Rhythm & Writing

www.rhythmandwriting.com

Rhythm & Writing is an award-winning handwriting program developed by an occupational therapist that teaches kids how to print using rhymes, music, and videos. It works and kids love it!

Tommy Nelson

store.lovegodgreatly.com/products/kids-storybook-bible

Join us on this global journey and see how far and wide God’s love stretches. Let’s discover the world together with the Love God Greatly Bible Storybook.

Tommy Nelson

www.amazon.com/Our-Friendly-Farmhouse-Melissa-Ferguson/dp/1400250528

Breathe in fresh country air and dream of a slower, simpler, sweeter life in this poetic story about building a homestead with heart from bestselling novelist Melissa Ferguson.

TrueNorth Leatherworks

www.truenorthleatherworks.school

Try something new: learn leatherworking skills the easy way. Leather sewing kits for all ages available in four skill levels. Everything needed comes in the kit, including a video tutorial.

Tyndale Publishers

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Fifty reproducible chapters teach kids about different people in the Bible and how God used them in His extraordinary plan. Packed with stories, activities, object lessons, and more!

Tyndale House Publishers / The Sacred Scales

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New middle-grade fantasy adventure. A boy with a precious dragon scale. A girl with glowing skin. And a kingdom on the verge of war with dragons.

Victus Study Skills System

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Check out our K–12+ systems approach to study. In just five hours, our program boosts your students’ organization, time management, test-taking skills, and more. Unlock their potential now!

Whistlefritz

www.whistlefritz.com

Whistlefritz’s Spanish and French Educator’s Collections make language learning educational and engaging! Our homeschool curriculum combines lesson plans, videos, music, and a family-based enrichment guide to support all types of learners.

"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6).