DD is finishing up 7th grade this week. She's been doing k12 online. I want to move her out of K12. She wants to finish 8th grade by the end of the summer so she can do 9th in September. What courses do you teach in 8th grade and what do you use. I know she will do Algebra since she is finishing pre-algebra now but I'm not sure what program to use. Other then that I'm not sure what to use. Thanks
My daughter did 7th grade with K12. Currently, she is homeschooled again. She is in 8th grade and using Math Mammoth for Geometry, JUMP Math for Algebra, Artistic Pursuits, Mystery of History, Visual Latin, Excellence in Literature, and a Lit Unit on Much Ado About Nothing. She also does math skills and benders for fun and we fun hands on lang arts book.
I'm very partial to Teaching Textbooks, especially if higher math isn't your "thing". For science I like Apologia.
OH YES! We are using Apologia. My daughter loves it. Good to hear about Teaching Textbooks....I am getting that for my son next year. Jackie...can you believe how old our boys are getting???
No! Phillip is now going with the girls to Youth Group. And I must say, I LOVE having the time on Tuesday evenings alone with DH!!! And I found a picture of him today as a Cubby....
Aaron doesn't get to go to Youth Group until he is in 7th grade...officially...lol...so I can still pretend. lol
We used MUS for Algebra1, my dcs enjoyed it and dd did not like the looks of TT so we went with this. We now have all three so are working on Geometry now. We used Easy Grammar for English and Stech Vaugn for for vocabulary. For science we had a co op for Astronomy so we did that and some SOS science 8? the astronomy we used was the Apologia one. Music we went to band at a private school. PE played and practiced baseball for 3 hour games and 2-3 hours of practice pretty much added up a year and a half of PE classes lol. History we did Geography- with Geography Trails; And side books to study different countries around the world. I wrote up lessons to go with it and lead a co op for this. It was a lot of fun and if you choose this for history/geo then I will send you all the links and some other stuff I have if you would like. Did I miss anything? Computer Graphics and game making was our elective.
If I have my druthers, I plan for 8th grade to do: Bible - Lifepac or CLE 8 Reading - CLE 8 English - CLE 8 Math - CLE 8 Science - eh. It's a toss-up. Maybe Abeka 8 (just the book, not the health too. We did this this year and are adding in some R&S 7 to finish out), maybe Apologia General (whole or half), maybe R&S 7/8, maybe even CLE or Lifepac 8, or in a real pinch, ACE 8. History - state history If I don't get my druthers, and the student needs something besides a straight 8th grade, I prefer any of a number of Bible studies, CLE for reading and math, either CLE or R&S for English, either R&S or Abeka for science, and likely R&S for history - at whatever level(s) the student turns out to need at that time.
Well, the youth group where the girls go (which is NOT where we do AWANA) is middle and high school. We've not been sending Phillip, because he's still in AWANA. But one night the girls had youth group, and Carl and I were going to be gone somewhere. We COULD have left Phillip home alone, but he had a friend from AWANA that also does youth group there, and this boy had been begging Rachael to bring him sometime. So we let him go, and he's still going. He enjoys it so much, and they're really a good group of kids.
It's funny - at our church we have a pretty good youth group going, but we don't have any children's program for Wednesday nights. On those Wednesday nights when DH is at the regular prayer meeting and I'm in the ladies' Bible study, the pastor's wife welcomes a few "underage youth" into her youth group. This usually includes only an 11 year old, a just-10 year old, and my 6 year old grandson! One night, the lesson was about the paralytic whose friends took him to Jesus to be healed - they divided up into three groups of "friends" and the little guys got to be the "paralytic" and be carried around on rugs. Since dh's diagnosis, we haven't made it to many Wednesday nights, but dgs still asks "Do WE have youth group tonight?" What's cool is that those who really ARE in the youth group make him and the other two feel like they are truly part of the youth group!
It is wonderful that the older kids make your dgs feel so much a part! What they don't realize is the role models they are for him, and how their actions toward him are as important to his Christian growth as the teaching is.
