{"id":22944,"date":"2023-05-30T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=22944"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:51:12","slug":"5th-6-weeks-of-7th-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/5th-6-weeks-of-7th-grade","title":{"rendered":"5th 6 Weeks of 7th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Closed out week 30 last week. We&#8217;ll be finishing in mid-July considering a few summer activities sprinkled in. Nate has been around to help so we have been taking turns reading with Ben and helping with his seatwork.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230520_122240.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22947 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230520_122240-300x240.jpg?resize=300%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230520_122240.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230520_122240.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230520_122240.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230520_122240.jpg?resize=1074%2C859&amp;ssl=1 1074w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230520_122240.jpg?w=1152&amp;ssl=1 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Benjamin has a devotional called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The BBC Manual<\/span>. His theological book right now is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daring to Live on the Edge<\/span>. He reads along with our church reading plan and also has weekly memory work.\u00a0 He usually has youth memory work as well.<\/p>\n<p>In history\/social studies, our spines are\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Story of the World: The Modern Age<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Usborne Encyclopedia 12,000 Years of World History<\/span>. We are reading a missionary biography about Brother Andrew called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">God&#8217;s Smuggler<\/span>. Benjamin does a current event assignment once a week using <em>World Kids\u00a0<\/em>magazine. We have weekly timeline activities as well.<\/p>\n<p>Reader alouds this unit were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The War That Saved My Life<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Number The Stars<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Year of Impossible Goodbyes<\/span><strong>. <\/strong>We also have poetry selections each week from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Classic Poetry<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/09-benjamin-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22948\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/09-benjamin-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/09-benjamin-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/09-benjamin-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/09-benjamin-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>For language we have\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sequential Spelling 4<\/span> for spelling, a cursive assignment each week just to stay in practice, vocabulary with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly Wise 3000, Book 7<\/span>, and a creative assignment each week.<\/p>\n<p>This unit Benjamin read\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Snow Treasure<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Endless Steppe<\/span>, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chu Ju&#8217;s House<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In science, we finished <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Industrial Revolution<\/span> and started\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Planet Earth<\/span> and worked the associated labs.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin is still doing well with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Horizons Pre-Algebra<\/span> for math.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin doesn&#8217;t have any extracurricular activities presently. He still runs our A\/V during church and is a good helper for Connections and church events. He spends a lot of time gaming and listening to his music. He has recently took it upon himself to do more basketball practice at home so that is good. He is a pretty good sport when Nate makes the kids work out.<\/p>\n<p>Family activities this unit were a trip to Boca Chica with Moehrings to try to watch Starship launch, a trip to Kentucky for Grace&#8217;s graduation, and a weekend trip to Center Point for Mother&#8217;s Day and to present about our Israel trip. We also had Ginny&#8217;s birthday and a missions Sunday service at the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closed out week 30 last week. We&#8217;ll be finishing in mid-July considering a few summer activities sprinkled in. Nate has been around to help so we have been taking turns reading with Ben and helping with his seatwork. Benjamin has a devotional called The BBC Manual. His theological book right now is Daring to Live&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201,4209,302,303],"tags":[2329,1983,3401,793],"class_list":["post-22944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benjamin-kids","category-core-h","category-horizons-math","category-science-homeschool","tag-5th-6-weeks","tag-progress","tag-report","tag-update","wpcat-201-id","wpcat-4209-id","wpcat-302-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-5Y4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14745,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/5th-6-weeks-of-4th-grade","url_meta":{"origin":22944,"position":0},"title":"5th 6 Weeks of 4th Grade","author":"Becca","date":"May 31, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"We finished up week 30 a couple weeks ago, but have had a bit of a busy time getting sister and associated activities recently. 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