I can’t believe we are done!

Seventh grade was a whirlwind and high school seems like it is just around the corner. I definitely felt like this year went by faster then last year! Now here I am putting together a progress report for my local school system and I decided that I should post it here on my blog. Now the school system gets a boring bullet list, but here I can have some fun. Hopefully this gives someone else some ideas about homeschooling the middle school years.

Mathematics:

Algebra is just around the corner so we used Understanding Pre-Algebra: Middle …

We did it! Fifth grade is done!

This year was tough. My daughter is a reluctant homeschooler. She wasn’t thrilled when the pandemic shut everything down and sent her schooling at home and she wasn’t thrilled waiting for reliable vaccines and until I felt like schools had returned to a somewhat normal state. But I like to think that even with all bumps we had some fun 😁

Mathematics:

We actually cycled through a few different math curriculums to find one that worked for my daughter. Turns out she needed a curriculum that spirals through topics rather than a …

This page was created 03/20/2024 as a look back to our earlier years homeschooling.

Mathematics

• Math Mammoth Topical Books
• ALEKS Middle School Course 3
• Upper Elementary Challenge Math by Edward Zacaroo.

English Language Arts

• Michael Clay Thompson Language Arts
• Weekly paragraphs and small essays on topics from literature, social studies and science.
• Spelling: Evan Moor Daily Practice
• Evan Moor Daily Practice and lists of commonly misspelled words

Reading & Literature …