30 weeks of 9th grade finished, 6 weeks left!
For bible, we have daily morning devotions that we do as a family. Usually some Bible Project study or other devotional book. For school, he also has The Westminster Shorter Catechism and The Jesus I Never Knew for theology. He has a weekly scripture memory for school.
In history/social studies, we have three main spines they interweave: The Story of Christianity, The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History, and From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya. He also has timeline and a current events assignment each week.
I’ve been managing to do most of Ben’s read alouds with him. This unit we finished Jane Eyre (and watched the movie), read Pilgrim’s Progress (and watched the movie), A Parcel of Patterns, The Screwtape Letters, and started The Shining Company. He also has daily readings from A Child’s Anthology of Poetry.
Language is fairly routine. He has a weekly creative writing assignment and a weekly short timed essay. He has done some good work this unit. He does vocabulary with Vocabulary From Classic Roots B and Wordly Wise 3000, Book 9, analogies with Analogies 1, and spelling with Sequential Spelling 6.
Science is Discovering Design with Earth Science which includes experiments, vocabulary, reviews, and tests. He does well.
Math is Math U See Geometry. He only has a couple of weeks left.
For dual credit, Benjamin wrapped up Spanish I and will take Music Appreciation this summer.
Benjamin started some driver’s ed coursework, we should be close to going to get his permit so we can get some road practice. He has been doing his own workouts trying to stay in shape for basketball. Spring open gyms have started up and there will be some spring training in June. We had two trips to CP to see cousins, Gram came up for Easter and we played “all the games at our house”, and we’ve had various church and connections events to keep us busy. He helps babysit when he can and still runs our tech at church. All around a good kid!