Modified 8th Grade

I can hardly believe it that my baby girl is heading into 8th grade...wow - where is the time going!?! We are continuing with Notgrass' America the Beautiful - finishing out the 2nd book from the 2 book series. We'll be doing the Life of Fred pre-algebra and pre-biology. Her test scores still show that she could skip a grade and we've offered to let her work 8th grade over the summer and move to 9th in the fall but she doesn't seem motivated to do it...we will see. My beautiful girl is growing up so fast!!!

PS. Someone asked about the pro's and con's of Notgrass' America the Beautiful - we are really liking it...it is a great layout of information and pictures during whatever time frame is being studied. We are continuing with it for now.

Notgrass America the Beautiful

Well we've left Heart of Dakota...I felt like there was just TOO much book work and the days were REALLY long. I'm not trying to raise a rocket scientist...I want school to be fun. We've switched to Notgrass' America the Beautiful. Image taken from the Notgrass website. Their history curriculum is a geared towards 7th & 8th graders and the price can't be beat. http://www.notgrass.com/notgrass/America-the-Beautiful-Resources/ We're continuing with Teaching Textbooks for Math. For Science we're using Apologia's General Science and Language Arts is a mixture of several things. Our Beautiful One loves to read and she's currently reading Melody Carlson's Diary of a Teenage Girl series.