Halfway through 7th Grade

Benjamin finished up week 18 at the beginning of February. Just catching up on records.

Benjamin has a devotional called The BBC Manual and we also worked through a devotional called Live Like a Jesus Freak. He has decided to join our church in our daily bible reading plan since he has to read the whole bible anyway and he also has weekly memory work.  He also sometimes has youth memory work.

In history/social studies, our spines are The Story of the World: Early Modern Times and The Story of the World: The Modern Age and Usborne Encyclopedia 12,000 Years of World History. Benjamin does a current event assignment once a week using World Kids magazine. We have weekly timeline activities as well.

Reader alouds this unit were The Great Trouble and Banner in the Sky. We also have poetry selections each week from Classic Poetry.

For language we have Sequential Spelling 4 for spelling, a cursive assignment each week just to stay in practice, vocabulary with Wordly Wise 3000, Book 7, and a creative assignment each week.

This unit Benjamin read Calico Bush, In Search of Honor, and Betsy and the Emperor.

Science this year is a fun set of books. We finished up Robotics and moved into Canals and Dams for experiments. He is also reading through Super Cool Tech.

Benjamin is still doing well with Horizons Pre-Algebra for math.

Ben’s main extra was closing out the basketball season. He played on his 7th grade team and also was an extra for the 8th grade. Every now and then he would get some time with the older boys. He got a lot better over the season.

Ben also got to do all the family Christmas stuff. We had a party, caroling, and a pageant at church. Then we spent Christmas week in Riudoso with Diltz/Millers. Ben doesn’t like cold so he avoided the tubing, skiing, and skating but came along to watch. He did play lots of games with us. He also helped burn Grams pile in January. He babysits once a week for a little guy and helps with the dog chores. He is out main tech guy for church and does a good job keeping us all on track. We got a puzzle table for Christmas and Ben has taken over. He likes to work on it after the little go to bed and get some time to himself.