What about 7th Grade?

[lauracolumbus]

Religion

F&L 7, possibly Teen Great Bible Adventure

 

Math

Finish Saxon Alg. 1, begin LOF Algebra

 

Latin

Lukeion Latin 2a

 

French

either finish FFF or use online class

 

Science

Not sure. I have Rainbow's Biology leftover from ds, Story of Science w/possibly Thames and Kosmo, I also have Apologia's General, which ds did not like.

 

History

AAH 1x/week

FMG, FMR and HO (although I really want to do TOG, but I don't own this and I own the others).

 

English

Almost finished AG, will do refresher

Vocab: CE 2, Sadlier

WWS almost finished. IEW SICC-B

Lit: Probably Iliad, Odyssey, and The Aeneid

 

GEOGRAPHY

CC review w/your sister

 

LOGIC

Probably Philosophy for Kids and maybe TL 2d semester

 

Art

Co-op

 

Music

Piano lessons

 

PE

volleyball, jiu jitsu, fencing, and swimming

 

ACT Prep a couple of times a month

 

I know we won't accomplish all of this and logic and American history will probably be the first to go.

 

Laura

[amydavis]

I'm still tweaking this, but here is what I have so far...

 

Grammar: R&S 7

 

Writing: WWS and AG's The Essay (although I have CW Aesop and Homer...hmmm)

 

Vocabulary: Vocab. From Classical Roots A, B, ...

 

Poetry: CW Poetry for Beginners

 

History: WTM style using The Human Odyssey (Moving quickly through ancients to spend most of the time on middle ages)

 

Literature: Selections to correspond with history (ancients/middle ages)

 

Math: Art of Problem Solving Intro to Geometry and Intro to Counting & Probability - Also, LOF Advanced Algebra (He used AOPS Intro to Algebra last year, but he loves Fred, so I added this in as an extra).

 

Science: Competitive Envirothon Team class through our co-op

 

Latin: Second Form from Memoria Press

 

Logic: Still deciding...

 

Electives: We have French from Memoria Press that he requested to do

 

Co-op: The Envirothon class I listed above, as well as Intro to Debate, Math Counts Competitive Team, and a North Carolina History class.

 

Other: Tap, Boy Scouts, and Cello with the Homeschool Orchestra

Edited July 30, 2012 by amydavis
Forgot Latin!

[AngelBee]

Still figuring it out.

 

For sure:

 

MATH: MUS Epsilon/Zeta (had to slow down); hopefully into PreAlgebra before end of year.

 

LA: Not decided fully

 

HISTORY: Tapestry of Grace Year 3

 

Science: Not fully decided; leaning towards mostly interest based with task cards. Nature Study ala CM.

 

Languages: Latin, Spanish, and ASL

 

Bible: undecided

 

Art/Music: Some in TOG. Add in ala CM.

 

Community Service: Year long commitment to NE Ambassador program with TONS of community projects. :)

 

Phy Ed: Competitive Dance; Maybe basketball and/or tennis.

 

Thinking....

[Ellie]

Writing Strands 2 (our preferred writing curriculum. After we finish the important stuff in Jensens, we will do this again.)

Level 2 of Writing Strands??? Are you sure? That's second-grade-level. I would expect a 12yo with good writing experience to be at least Level 4, if not Level 5.

[Luckymama]

 

Science: Competitive Envirothon Team class through our co-op

 

How cool! Did your ds do Envirothon last year? I assume this is a high school team since dd and I couldn't find a middle school division when we learned about it last year. Does their team split into specialists for each of the areas? Would you mind posting through the year about your ds's experiences? I'm sure there are others who would be curious :001_smile:

[munashe]

Here is what we are doing;

 

Math - Galore Park SYRWTL + http://www.conquermaths.com/

 

English -

Still deciding

 

Social Studies -

Geography - Geography through Art + Galore Park SYRWTL

History - A Little History of the World + a bit of World War I and 2

 

Science - middleschoolchemistry.com but am looking for something for Physical Science as we are nearing the end of chemistry

 

Foreign Language - Spanish with an online tutor from here http://www.spanishacademyantiguena.com/

 

Logic - Maybe will use Critical Thinking Book 1

 

Art - She does a correspondence course and she has some local homeschooling art classes to attend

 

Music - Piano.

 

She does ice skating, swimming and Judo for exercise.

 

I am curious how much time do you spend each day on academics?

 

We do about 4 hours a day Monday - Thursday, then Friday is for activities. On top of this she has 2 hours Spanish in the on Mon and Tues evening. That's around 18-20 hours weekly though some weeks we do less as there are some odd activities that our homeschool group do here and there. Reading is separate and around 30mins daily.

 

Our Schedule is Math, English and Science is about an hour daily and we do these in the morning.

 

The afternoons we tend to do the rest of the subjects once or twice a week for an hour.

Edited August 1, 2012 by munashe

[Blossom'sGirl]

Wow! What a variety of lineups.

 

My rising 7th grader's plans are ..

 

Math: AOPS Pre-Algebra (He is doing LOF Pre-Algebra 1 over this summer)

 

Grammar: R&S 7

 

Spelling: R&S 7

 

Bible: R&S 7

 

Science: CPO Life

 

History / Geography / Reading: Sonlight Core 4 w/ younger brothers

 

I will be adding in literature in addition to the SL readings.

 

I would like to add in some logic, music lessons, and/or foreign language but am not sure how that will work out yet.

Edited August 1, 2012 by Blossom'sGirl

[KellyMama]

Our line-up (although we're only 2 days in and I've yet to see if this will actually work out time-wise?!)

 

Math: Saxon 8/7 w/teaching CDRom

 

Science: Rainbow Science (1st year so Physics and Chemistry)

 

History: SOTW 2 (read aloud with younger siblings) + Maps etc from the AG . . .and then we're adding in literature studies from Beautiful Feet Medieval History (jr/sr high) and also loosely following the Classical House of Learning lit guide that correlates with our time period.

 

Spelling/Vocab: Abeka 7

 

Grammar: Easy Grammar Plus + Daily Grams 7

 

Literature: Historical fiction (organized by time period) to correspond to our history studies (see above) + plenty of classics that she can select from a list I compiled (they have nothing to do with history so she gets a break) - and she loves to read, so she also has a running stack of 'fluffy fiction' from the library next to her bed! ;)

 

Writing/Composition: Apologia's Jump In! + Figuratively Speaking + writing assignments (occasionally) from her history lit guides (I plan to keep these short and sweet - mostly summaries or outlines and sometimes a 1 page essay).

 

We also write a research paper in the fall - last year we did famous people, this year I'm debating letting them select a topic from any field they'd like to research (my 3rd grader will pick weather, for example, and we'll need to narrow it down LOL).

 

Logic: The Fallacy Detective (read and discuss with her 5th gr sibling too)

 

Bible: Discovery Bible Study (she picked the one on Bible Prophecy)

French: Finishing up SOS Elementary French (we started 2nd semester last year), then I'm not sure what next?

 

Music: Piano lessons (and she is trying to convince me to let her learn the clarinet and play in a local band program)

 

Art: Whatever we can fit in - I know, it's terrible - we do more crafts than real ART (not my gifting at all) but we do discuss artists in relation to our history studies and I'm planning to let them take an art history class at our local art museum next year, so at some point, she will have formal art instruction!

 

PE: Ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary/lyrical dance + we do a "kids' marathon" in the winter, so there is "training" for that in the fall + plenty of backyard sports. ;)

[Closeacademy]

Level 2 of Writing Strands??? Are you sure? That's second-grade-level. I would expect a 12yo with good writing experience to be at least Level 4, if not Level 5.

 

The thing is she doesn't have good writing experience. She was a late reader and we started working on writing but I put her in the online public school last year and they completely dropped about 75% of the writing projects. So we are starting with something that holds her hand a bit more with lots of guidance. And I meant Writing Strands 3 not 2. I'd just bought 2 for my younger dd. And she is at the end of the ages listed for 3. I have 4 on stand-by and we are dropping Jensens for now since we are dropping the literary analysis course and going with Oak Meadow English 7 instead (better books, less boredom).

 

She really struggles with brainstorming. Once the ideas come out she writes good grammatical sentences but she gets stuck in the pre-writing. She is a bit of a perfectionist and is so terrified of taking risks and putting things down on paper. :001_smile:

[hivemom]

Here's our 7th grade schedule for my language-crazy child:

 

Latin: finish Third Form, start Fourth Form when it's available

Greek: Elementary Greek III

French: private tutor

Math: Discovering Mathematics I (Singapore); LOF Pre-Algebras

English: CW Diogenes Maxim/Intermediate Poetry A

Literature: Modified Omnibus I with local professor/homeschool class

Bible: Christian Studies III (Memoria)/catechism

Science: Astronomy (terms 1&2); Holt Earth Science (terms 3&4)

Music: Piano

PE: swimming and tennis

Art: Oakmeadows "Drawing on the Right Side..."

 

I had planned to start Logic (Fallacy Detective) this year, but I think I'll slide that to eighth and go straight to Traditional Logic (Cothran).

 

Ann in MI

[Storm Bay]

Thanks to Momto2Ns for giving me the link to this,.

 

Ds is going to do:

 

All American History II

 

Calvert Math 8 Yes, this is a lot like school at home, but he really wants to go to ps part time next year, so this will be a good transition for him & he works well if I use scripted lessons (as much as I personally don't like them).

 

Shurley English 7 (another scripted program, at least the younger grade we did is) along with a couple of literary guides I have (and the books) and Creative Writing with a fabulous writing teacher.

 

Alles Klar for German along with continuing with Rosetta Stone I picked up a couple of the books for a song at a used curriculum sale & bought some of the others used on Amazon (already had RS which I bought new many moons ago).

 

Stebbing for art

 

DIVE Earth & Space (whatever it's called--gr 8) along with Apologia text (first edition since the DIVE costs plenty--we already have a lot of lab resources, so I won't purchase any kit)

 

Trumpet lessons with a teacher, piano & theory with me (I am a piano teacher, and while he doesn't want lessons with me, the teacher I'd like for him has a waiting list & is now working during school hours so can't teach then, either)

 

Swim team for Phys Ed

 

That's all I can think of at the moment.

 

Math – Dolciani Algebra 2

 

 

 

Which one do you use? We love the older ones.

 

It was great seeing all the 7th grade options, but I don't have a clue what to do with my 7th grader. Maybe you guys can give me an opinion?

 

I need something fairly independent, he is pretty good about doing work without me sitting on top of him. I will be gone 2 days a week, so I would like something easy for someone else to take over on those days.

 

I have narrowed down some choices.

 

 

Fallacy Detective

 

 

Thanks in advance for any thoughts! I am overwhelming myself with too many choices. I didn't mention math but we are using NEM 1 with LOF prealgebra. I got that down at least.

 

These are the only areas where I have any experience with your choices. We love LOF, but did stop with SM 6, although NEM is a strong program (it was too visually overwhelming for my then 7th grader).

 

We have Fallacy Detective, and my eldest just read it on her own with little discussion, but I think it's better with that component. We went with different options for independent study, but that has to do with my dc's learning styles, so I hope it goes well with what you've chosen; I'm coming here late as I wasn't on much in July.

 

Wow. After looking through all these plans, seems my choices aren't all the popular.

 

Grammar - Easy Grammar

Writing - Writing With Skill Level 1 (new to us)

Spelling - Megawords

Math - Saxon Math 8/7

Logic - The Fallacy Detective

History - History Odyssey: Middle Ages with WTM reading list

Science - Holt Science and Technology Life Science

Art - Mark Kistler's Online Art Lessons

Foreign Language - I would like her to take Spanish due to the region we live in; she is interested in French. I have no idea which program. They all seem so expensive.

Bible - I have not chosen a program for this. I think I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around anything since we are in somewhat of a crisis with our current church. I pray a lot about it.

 

She will also participate in a tap/jazz dance class weekly.

 

Sure feels like I'm missing something. What could it be?

 

We like Fallacy Detective, and I think that some of your things are more popular than it seems from this lest. I'm not sure what you're missing. We did Easy Grammar, but I found that for the most part it didn't stick with my younger two, and what we did was switch to R&S starting at about grade 6ish, although my ds is now doing Shurley English (I don't care for it, but it works well for him as it's very auditory & he does well when I teach from the script, which is NOT my style).

 

My eldest used Saxon for 3 grades, self taught, and many people like it (it's popular), but wasn't a good fit for my younger two or for me.

 

As for the Bible, we don't use a curriculum (Dh & I both have B Th's), but I don't think you have to have one in your situation. We went though a crisis with the church we were going to early in our official homechool years. You could do something simple such as read through the gospels & Acts and/or the church epistles, or you could go back & read accounts from the old testament. I call this the KISS principle--Keep It Simple, Saint.

Finally have 7th grade put together for the most part.

 

Math (he's behind but finally getting it so maybe this year will move a bit more quickly)

Saxon 6/5 supplementing with Life of Fred (Wonderful books)

Life of Fred - Fractions,

Life of Fred - Decimals and Percents

If have time - Life of Fred Pre Algebra 1

 

 

P.E. - has to commit to 60 minutes a day. Thinking strength training since has low muscle tone.

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I think that's it. Feel like I'm missing something

 

We like LOF here, too.

 

My ds was born with low muscle tone, and strength training sounds like a great idea, although you may want to do some stretching, too. We've found swimming to be very helpful, particularly when he joined a swim team. Ds was a poor swimmer when he joined this team, and could barely swim the 25 yards required to be part of the team (it's an inclusive team, but has a great coach). By swimming 3-4 times a week he has become much stronger, and his sports coordination has improved considerably (he was so uncoordinated for sports it was incredible--of course, 2 years of tap classes also helped him a great deal--he has always been coordinated with his feet & even clapped with his feet as a baby when his low muscle tone slowed him down on other milestones.)

[besroma]

Taking notes..... :lurk5:

[JadeOrchidSong]

AllSmiles - I like your idea of giving your child a list of books to choose from for extra reading! I think I'm going to do that!

 

I like Allsmiles list, too. I may borrow her ideas of books!