Equip your family for the school year with vetted curriculum and planning tools.
The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine Summer Issue is sure to inspire you to try new things with its resource guides for back-to-school homeschool planning, high school and college planning, and more.
The Old Schoolhouse® offers several different ways for you to read each resource guide, including the HomeschoolApp.com, where you can also access current and past issues of the magazine. The app is the easiest way to find all of your favorite resources, especially on-the-go!
Back-to-School Planning, Curriculum, and Supplies Summer Guide
For Summer 2025, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine shares quite a few favorites in the Back-to-School Planning, Curriculum, and Supplies Resource Guide. These include hands-on craft kits, perfect for learning, such as TrueNorth Leatherworks, teaching traditional skills with video tutorials, and Blick Art Materials, which offers free online art lessons. Kids can also read, play, create, and learn with Ivy Kids literature-centered STEM kits. Each of these will steer kids away from technology and into creative expression and exploration!
In the Summer Issue, you will also find more about the following companies, curriculum, and resources:
- Whistlefritz
- Tyndale Publishers
- Victus Study Skills Systems
- Tommy Nelson
- Child Diagnostics / Dianne Craft
- JAM with Latin
- Rhythm and Writing
- Rabbit Trails Homeschool
- Excalibur Solutions STEM Academy
- Easy Grammar Systems
- Bellerophon Books
- American School
- American Heritage Education Foundation
Looking to boost reading? Parents can also access the Recommended Authors Directory in the Summer Issue, featuring vetted authors and stories that will entertain and encourage readers of all ages as they grow in their faith. The Wisdom Answer: Equipping Teens Living in a Culture of Deception provides Biblical wisdom for teens navigating today’s challenges, and College Aid Pro supports homeschool families with expert guidance and cutting-edge tools to make college more affordable, including giving families a FREE financial aid education series!
Summer Guide Features High School, College, and Careers
Also in the 2025 Summer Issue, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine shares a High School, College, and Careers Resource Guide for those homeschooling the upper grades. These will help parents as they guide teens through the transition into college, career, and adulthood.
In this resource guide, you will also find more about the following companies:
- Writing with Sharon Watson
- Focus on the Family
- Capernwray Harbour Bible Centre
- American School
Award-Winning Homeschool Resources
Congratulations to Easy Grammar Systems for winning the 2024 Blue Ribbon Award for Favorite Grammar Resource! Learn about their products in the Creative Learning, Writing, and Logic Resource Guide. Progeny Press, another literature and writing resource, was the Blue Ribbon winner for Best High School Product, and Beautiful Feet took home the prize for Best History Curriculum!
Find out who else won a 2024 Blue Ribbon award in the spring issue of The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, easily accessible on the TOS app. You might be surprised to find new games for summer fun when you see who won Favorite Game and the Children’s Favorite! With over a dozen winners, you are certain to find something new to try with your kids this summer or next school year. Download the TOS app to be inspired today!
HomeschoolingFinds.com Author
This article has been written by Yvie Field. She teaches at an online homeschooling co-op at Sparks Academy and shares more about her family’s homeschooling journey at Homeschool On the Range.