Monday, August 1, 2011

2011-2012 7th Grade School Year Curriculum

I can hardly believe that my wiggly, sweet middle child is now taller than me and is getting ready to start 7th grade!  He's definitely grown up, though, and is now even taller than me!  Without further ado, here are the curriculum materials that I will be using with him for the 2011-2012 School Year.

Language Arts

Reading:
Reading Comprehension:
Focus Strategies – Understanding Sequence Level F
Focus Strategies – Recognizing Cause and Effect Level F 
Focus Strategies – Comparing and Contrasting Level F
Focus Strategies – Making Predictions Level F
Focus Strategies – Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences Level F

Spelling & Vocabulary

Handwriting

History
Sonlight History Core D with Advanced Readers – Introduction to American History


The Story of the USA, Book 1
North American Indians
Pedro's Journal
Incans, Aztecs, & Mayans
The Landmark History of the American People Volume 1
What's the Big Idea, Ben Frankline?
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
The Winter at Valley Forge
Te Story of the USA, Book 2
If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution
American Adventures 1
The Story of Eli Whitney
The Lewis & Clark Expedition
Imprisoned in the Golden City
The Erie Canal
The Corn Grows Ripe
Vostaas:  White Buffalo's Story
A Lion to Guard Us
Pocahontas and the Strangers
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
The Thanksgiving Story
The Courage of Sarah Noble
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
The Skippack School
The Matchlock Gun
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia
Mr. Revere and I
Meet George Washington
Phoebe the Spy
George Washington:  Our First Leader
Martha Washington
The Cabin Faced West
Om-kas-toe
Meet Thomas Jefferson
Sarach Whitcher's Story
Naya Nuki
Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Takta'liktak
Stone Fox


Read Alouds
Walk the World's Rim
A Child's Introduction to Poetry
Secret of the Andes
Toliver's Secret
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Calico Bush
The Journeyman
Swift Rivers
Farmer Boy
***We will be watching Johnny Tremain and The Sign of the Beaver rather than reading the books.  I also removed The Witch of Blackbird Pond from the read-aloud list for my boys and added it to my daughter's high school reading list for history.

I am still working on choosing all of the videos I want my boys to watch as part of their History program.  I know for sure that we'll be watching the following videos:

Mathematics

Science

Physical Education
Swim team practice - Mason practices 5 times a week with his USA swimming team.  The practices include dry -land exercises which encompass weight-training and a wide variety of aerobic exercises.  Mason is in the Gold group and his practice schedule is included below:

Monday:  4:45pm - 7:30pm
Tuesday:  5:30pm - 7:30pm 
Wednesday:  Mason attends Youth Group at church on Wednesday evenings.
Thursday:  5:30pm - 7:30pm 
Friday:  4:45pm - 7:30pm 
Saturday:  No Practice
Sunday:  11:30am - 1:00pm


Mason regularly attends USA swim meets.

Fine Arts
Atelier Video-Based Art Lessons – Art Projects from Level 5 and Level 6 - My goal is to complete one art project per week but we will need to skip art some weeks for field trips.

***If you would like to read my detailed review of this curriculum, please visit my review at The Curriculum Choice.

Bible

Typing
Typing – Typing Instructor Platinum - Duncan will be working through this wonderful program three times per week. 

Books on Tape
In addition to the aforementioned curriculum, Mason will be required to listen to a chapter each day of a book on tape.  By including a book listening time in his school day, I am increasing the amount of books to which he is exposed.  Mason reads along with the book while listening to the book on tape. 
Music
Mason is learning to play the electric guitar.  He takes a weekly lesson at a local music shop and practices daily.

 
I am linking this curriculum post up with the Not Back-to-School Blog Hop at Heart of the Matter.  If you love to read about the curriculum choices of other homeschoolers (and what homeschool mom doesn't!), I encourage you to check out the other bloggers that linked up as well.
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