Homeschool Curriculum Organization: How I Plan and Store Our Materials

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Planning and organizing homeschool curriculum can feel overwhelming—especially when you’re teaching multiple grades. But with the right system in place, you can streamline your homeschool setup and create a space that encourages independent learning and reduces daily stress. In this post, I’ll walk you through my homeschool curriculum organization process, how I plan for the year, and how I store all the materials without letting it take over the house.

When I Start Planning

Even during summer, I start thinking about our next homeschool year. I spend several weeks clearing out old books, evaluating what worked the previous year, and getting everything ready for a fresh start. By mid-summer, I aim to have all our curriculum ordered, our daily rhythm in place, and materials organized.

How I Organize Our Homeschool Materials

Two of the biggest homeschool challenges? Choosing curriculum—and organizing it! After years of trial and error, I’ve landed on a system that really works for our family.

Our Storage Solution

We previously used plastic crates to hold each child’s school books. While they were portable, they didn’t stack well and ended up underfoot. Now, I use a tall shelving unit with five slide-out metal baskets. Each child has their own basket, and they can pull it out and take it wherever they’re working that day.

This vertical setup saves floor space and gives each child a clear sense of ownership over their materials. It’s also easy for me to see what needs to be restocked or replaced.

How I Plan Our Homeschool Curriculum

To simplify planning, I use my own Homeschool Curriculum Planning Sheets, which allow me to break down each subject by child and map out the entire year at a glance. I also wrote an ebook—The Quick Guide to Choosing a Homeschool Curriculum—to help others go through this process with confidence, whether it’s your first or tenth time homeschooling.

Curriculum Choices by Grade

We have used a wide variety of resources through the years, but here’s a snapshot of what our curriculum choices looked like for a 6th grader, 4th grader, and kindergartener:

6th Grade

• Beautiful Feet Books: Modern American & World History (Literature + History)
• Vocabulary from Classical Roots Level 6
• Keys to Good Language
• IEW Writing – Following Narnia
• Spelling You See Level F
• CTC Math
• Independent Science Study
• Lego Robotics
• DuoLingo Spanish
• Simply Coding: Game Design
• English from the Roots Up

4th Grade

• Beautiful Feet Books: Early American History, Intermediate
• Growing with Grammar
• IEW or Winning with Writing
• Phonetic Zoo Spelling (IEW)
• CTC Math
• DuoLingo French
• BookShark Science
• Scratch Coding

Kindergarten

• Memoria Press Kindergarten Curriculum Set
• CTC Math
• Hands-on Science Kits
• Beautiful Feet Books for History & Literature

Together as a family we rotate daily between Artist Study, Musicians, Poetry and Shakespeare. We also do a devotional/circle time each morning together where we incorporate a hymn, scripture, memorization, and character study.

Extra Tools and Enrichment

We also rotate through:

• Artist & Composer Study
• Poetry & Shakespeare
• Hymns, Scripture, and Character Study during Morning Time

And we supplement with:

• Typing programs
• Seterra for Geography
• Drawing the USA
• Math games like: Trifacta, Prime Climb, Sequence Numbers, Equate, Math Wrap-Ups
• Tinker Crates
• Insect X-Ray Cards & Geometric Solids

Homeschool curriculum organization doesn’t have to be complicated. With a reliable planning method and a practical storage system, you’ll be ready to jump into a new school year with confidence. Whether you homeschool one child or five, creating systems that encourage independence and reduce clutter will make your days run more smoothly.

Looking for help choosing curriculum? Check out my Quick Guide to Choosing a Homeschool Curriculum in the shop—and don’t forget to grab the free planning sheets!