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Typical 8th grade schedule, please give feedback
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Just to be sure, could you all go over what I’ve scheduled for my ds14.
Literature: Lamplighter book 1 ch. a day (read alouds w/ family at various times) oral/written narrations
Math: Key to Frac. appr. 30 min. a day
Finishing up Golden Goblet, was reading this appr. 4 days a week, oral/written narrations
Science: Gen. Science 30-40 min. 3 days a week (appr.) oral narration 2-3 x week, study guide/tests
Storybook of Science 1 ch. a week w/ written narration
SW: Reviews beginning and throughout the week, dictation end of the week
Write w/ the Best 2 days a week
Grammar: EGP, 2 days a week
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? 1 ch. a week w/ oral narration
Book of Mottoes/Discovering Doctrine/BOC notebooks as recommended
Reads aloud poetry 3-4 days a week, currently Robert Frost
Instrument practice daily and sports involvement
Family: Picture, Latin, Bible, Geo, Composer (listens while we do CW as a family), Scriptures, hit and miss w/ hymn study, but he’s very familiar w/ hymns from church
We will begin Tales from Shakespeare this week, hopefully. We have listened to some audio recently. He’s just begun typing instruction and 1 Journal Entry a week.
Nature Study as it fits
. And Study Island as he has time.Too much, too little??
Not challenging enough??
Thanks in advance.
ETA: He reads from Practical Happiness 1 x week w/ discussion questions
It’s like dejavu! Your schedule is almost exactly like my 13yo’s…down to currently reading a Lamplighter book and Golden Goblet:) The only thing we have a little different is we do WWtB 4x/week….but I should maybe shorten this (dd would like me to!) We also have foreign language scheduled but have been really bad about getting it in. I finally just last week started scheduling a free online Spanish program for just about 15 min. 2x/week. We’re not doing Shakespeare or Penny Candy yet…but it’s on the schedule for our early summer reading when we’re traveling and hubby is working. Hubby is supposed to do Greek w/the kids, but work schedule has been busy…so we just occasionally work on Eng. From the Roots Up.
Just curious how long Gen. Science will take you to complete. Dd does it daily and it will be a struggle to finish in one year!!! Are you taking two? I think your schedule looks great:) Blessings, Gina
P.S. Oh, and we do have lit. analysis scheduled (Any Novel Study Guide), but have yet to really do it:( I’m thinking next year I just might have to buy Lightening Lit. or something. We also just started Wordly Wise because dd struggles w/voc., but other kids don’t need a program.
Well, the Gen. Science will have taken 2 years to complete. He started it some time in 7th grade and I allowed him to take his time. He has done well w/ it, meaning, he has enjoyed the reading portion, some of the experiments (he’s not really into experiments but has done several from the book or youtube), and our discussions. He was still in the middle of studying rocks and begged to learn about the human body, muscles, in particular. I couldn’t say no, so he moved on to that module in the book. After reading, he came out (of his room, LOL) beaming ready to share about what he had learned. I’m glad I let him move on. He really needs to finish by the end of June, which may seem like a long way away, but we have so many other things going on that it takes him awhile to get through a module. I didn’t want him burned out by it all and not have a living book to enjoy so I added Storybook of Science one day a week.
Now it doesn’t have to take 2 years, but my son is/was a struggling reader so it is/was more for him. Overall, he would say he’s learned a lot and has enjoyed it.
I have looked into LL and Any Novel, too, but haven’t made any decisions about that, even though I’ve got some plans for next year brewing. I was going to look into WW or a root word curric. but haven’t actually implemented anything yet…we have so much going on already!!
BTW, thanks for the input, sometimes I just need someone else’s eyes to see what I may or may not be seeing
.And, I do realize he’s not doing a “handicraft” right now, but I plan to add something someday…he does help his dad around the house and such. I showed him the list in the All Day Seminar book and he just isn’t into any kind of handicraft (use to be, not too much anymore). I may make a trip to Lowe’s/Home Depot and get something for him to put together, we’ll see.
That’s great that he’s doing so well w/Gen. Science! He’ll gain so much more if he’s interested.
I’m still trying to figure out Lit. Analysis. I really don’t know how much is necessary. It seems that once you learn the main story elements it shouldn’t be something you have to re-hash over and over…dd already doesn’t esp. love to read…don’t want to make her dread it. But hopefully if she learns the basics she’ll start to think about them as she reads even if we don’t ‘formally’ study it in a particular book…don’t want to analyze every single book!
I think learning w/dad is a great way to naturally learn handicrafts. My hubby learned a lot from his dad and he can do about anything around the house….just built me a beautiful hutch for my kitchen…even though he never officially studied ‘handicrafts.’ 🙂 Blessings, Gina
Ya, he does like to read, but to analyze will probably kill him. He does take his time through books, but certain ones just seem to linger to him (and not in a good way, LOL). He’s the type that just wants you to get to the point, “The facts, ma’am, just the facts.” Although he does like a good book, sometimes too much descriptions make him crazy, but at the same time he understands (intellectually) that w/o the descriptions the pages may be empty, LOL. He told me awhile back how the best book in the world, the Bible, gets to the point, or even skips whole chunks of people’s lives, so why can’t he??!! Now of course he wasn’t talking about the book of Job or Psalm, just parts in Genesis that seem to get to the point, LOL.
I’d still like him to do at least one novel study and as he gets older I think he’s learning to appreciate descriptive writing. He is using WWTB and has said that he does want to read Robinson Crusoe because of using the program.
Hopefully when the weather gets better my dh and kids will do some extra yard work and build something for our animals, we’ll see.
For comparison’s sake, I’ll share my 8th graders schedule:
Bible: we do memory work together, he’s reading through the Bible in a year with his dad and brothers, and we do family worship at least 4x a week.
History: we do TQ commentary together, I assign him about ten pages a week of a history spine, and then another reading book that combines history and literature. He does one oral and one written narration a week for this.
Science: also doing General, completing a module about every two weeks to finish in a year.
Math: will complete MUS pre-algebra, working for about 40 minutes a day.
LA: This has been my bugaboo this year — finding what works for us for LA. Right now he’s doing two Everyday Edits a week — he needs to work on becoming more observant of his writing mistakes, Then we’re using the sentences in Everyday Edits to review and reinforce grammar concepts. We’re doing dictation twice a week. I’m also working with him on his writing using various products — nothing we love so far.
We do composer, artist and poetry as a family focusing on one person for 4-6 weeks. We also do a family read-aloud about 4-5 x a week. We try to coordinate most of those things with our history studies.
He also spends at least an hour a day fixing or programming computers.
Plans for next year: Continue with much the same, adding in Fallacy Detective or Art of Argumnet. I’m considering LL for next year as well and we must get back to a foreign language program — we’ve dropped it for this year because I’ve been snowed under, figuratively speaking. 🙂
Thanks Gina and Jean…it’s helpful to see what others are doing.
And I had planned some Logic for next year, too. Had meant to this year, but to be honest, he’s not a fast reader (not that I’m trying to make him whiz through books!) so I can’t really give him too much to read at one time, even if it seems I have. He has several books schedule, but to make it through, say, The Cat of Bubastes is going to be a struggle. I’m thinking of getting the audio version to help him along and I may read some to him as well. That’s why we could’ve never made it through Gen Science in a year. His comprehension level is high so I do read to him at times to get through something a bit faster (I know that’s not CMish, but it’s helpful to feel like you can move on!).
Thanks ladies.
We did the audio for Cat of Bubastes about a year and a half ago. I think my 14 yo ds would still have a hard time getting through that one on his own. He’s not much of a reader either. My 13 yo ds, on the other hand, is doing the same schedule as his older brother, but adding in at least two or three more books a week. So nice to be able to fit curriculum to children, and not the other way around.
. And Study Island as he has time.
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