7th grade Week In Review: August 31- September 4, 2015

Mikaela had a very creative and productive week this week!

In History {America the Beautiful by the Notgrass Company}, she had to make a Pocahontas Museum. She did a really good job! She had 10 exhibits to make, but I'll only show you a few.

"Pocahontas would take corn and furs to John Smith, who at the time lived at Jamestown."

"Pocahontas changed her religion to Christianity..."

Pocahontas's baby boy.

She has mapping and timeline activities almost every day, and a lesson review and activity every day. We are only on her third week of this curriculum, but she loves it! It is such a great and thorough curriculum, and she can do it mostly independently. She reads a lesson each day, and then a passage in We The People, which is a collection of documents, songs, stories, poems, and articles from the past. She also has a "Thinking Biblically" section each day, where she looks up scriptures and applies it to her lesson. There are at least 5 extra activities listed for each lesson, and while you don't have to do all of them, she usually does because she loves them. Here are a few examples of her timeline and maps {which is ongoing}.

For science, {Science in the Ancient World by Jay Wile}, she had some more experiments. We did a cool one Wednesday. She had to put vinegar and baking soda into a 2-liter bottle. We lit a candle, and then turned the bottle sideways, being careful not to spill any, and the gas caused the candle to go out! We did it several times because it was so neat.

In math, she is still adding and subtracting, multiplying and diving fractions. She is on the third book in the Key to Fractions series. She is getting a little tired of fractions, but she could probably do them in her sleep now, and that was my goal!

For grammar, she is using Easy Grammar Plus, and finding direct objects, adverbs, and prepositional phrases like a pro.

She is continuing in Spectrum Writing 7. She loves to write, and this twice weekly workbook is just perfect. It's not too much, but it keeps her creative juices flowing while giving her some direction and teaching her rules. I don't worry too much about her spelling errors, because that is her weakness and I want her to enjoy writing. I did correct them on one of her writing assignments and made her re-write it.

She is doing great in art, and her drawing has improved.

We just started Drawn into the Heart of Reading this week, and boy are we loving it! It is such a fun, easy reading program.

I didn't take pictures of her workbook {some of the questions are personal}, but she did have an activity today. She had to draw a cover for her book to make people want to read it. She did a great job {and yes I know she misspelled 'manor.}

I am so proud of her for being so motivated. We have found curriculum that works for her, allows her to have her independence, and is teaching her so much.