Gracie’s 7th grade year . . .

OK, how is it possible that my baby girl is in 7th grade already?!  Granted, we did start her in Kindergarten almost immediately after her 4th birthday (she’s my intellectual child and she wanted to learn to read TODAY!)  But still . . . the time passes much too quickly.

There are some areas where I feel she’s not quite ready for full-blown 7th grade work (as you’ll see in the schedule below – i.e. science); but otherwise, we’re plowing along and it looks like she’s got quite a busy schedule this year:

Bible ~ Wise Up: Wisdom in Proverbs from Positive Action for Christ  (we had received the 4th grade curriculum to review last year, so this will be a bit different)

Math ~ Basic Mathematics from Abeka  (Gracie’s my math lover and has always excelled in math; therefore, she loves the busy-work of Abeka math.  We stick with what works.)

Language Arts ~

• Growing with Grammar – obviously, for grammar!
• Student Writing Intensive (B) from Institute for Excellence in Writing – again, obviously, for writing.  We used some of Level A last year and Gracie really improved her writing.  So, we’re anxious to really dig deeper this year!  (I also have the Teaching Writing: Structure & Style dvd’s that I’ll watch again – love these!)
• Phonetic Zoo (B) from Institute for Excellence in Writing – for spelling
• Books of her choice for reading (which will probably include the Narnia books, among other things)

Science ~ Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy & Physiology from Apologia – we also bought the Notebooking Journal to go along with this.  I wasn’t 100% convinced that we were ready to move onto General Science this year; so we chose this since Ashley is doing Anatomy this year as well. 

History ~ The Mystery of History, volume 1 (round 2) from Bright Ideas Press

Geography ~ we’ll use Wonder Maps from Bright Ideas Press with our history study.  We also have Visualize World Geography from Tender Heart Press coming to review.

Foreign Language ~ Vietnamese (Level 1) from Rosetta Stone

Art, Music, Etc. ~ Gracie will continue with both piano and violin lessons (once/week) and will be adding orchestra rehearsals in as well (approximately twice/month).  We also plan to work through A Young Scholar’s Guide to Composers from Bright Ideas Press.