{"id":23700,"date":"2023-10-01T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T00:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=23700"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:19:48","slug":"1st-6-weeks-of-8th-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/1st-6-weeks-of-8th-grade","title":{"rendered":"1st 6 Weeks of 8th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We started in the middle of August and managed to string together an almost unbroken 6 weeks. Hannah has been keeping us in line to stay on track with her dual credit class.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin&#8217;s schedule this year is as follows: Core J History of Science, LAJ, SciJ History of Science, Algebra, Basketball<\/p>\n<p>Bible hasn&#8217;t changed much. Benjamin is following along with our church as we read the bible this year on YouVersion. He also has a number of theological books he will work through this year for school. The first one is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Disappointment With God<\/span>. He has school memory work as well as assignments from youth group each week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cards-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23702 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cards-300x225.jpg?resize=459%2C344&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cards-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cards-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cards-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cards-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cards-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cards-scaled.jpg?resize=1422%2C1067&amp;ssl=1 1422w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cards-scaled.jpg?resize=1074%2C806&amp;ssl=1 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a>In history\/social studies, we are working through a series called The Story of Science as our spine. The first one is\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aristotle Leads the Way<\/span>. Ben also read\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">String, Straightedge, and Shadow<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Archimedes and the Door of Science<\/span>. He still does timeline and current events on Fridays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Nate is available to help this year we have managed to keep a read aloud book for Benjamin. (Hannah had to do this core basically on her own.) They have read\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Holes<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Ring of Endless Light<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year is fun because all of the readers are science fiction due to the history being so text heavy. Benjamin has read\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Thief,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Going Solo<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Gammage Cup<\/span>. He also has\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry<\/span> for some poetry selections each week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twister-ben.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-23703\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twister-ben-240x300.jpg?resize=307%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twister-ben.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twister-ben.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twister-ben.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twister-ben.jpg?resize=1229%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twister-ben.jpg?resize=1074%2C1343&amp;ssl=1 1074w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twister-ben.jpg?w=1360&amp;ssl=1 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a>Math is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Math U See Algebra I<\/span>. Benjamin is doing well. He will get this as a high school credit on his transcript.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LA is same as last year just a level up.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sequential Spelling 5<\/span> for spelling,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Classical Roots A<\/span> for Latin,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly Wise Book 8<\/span> for vocabulary. A weekly assignment. Benjamin tries to squeak by on the least amount of effort but does a good job when we give him a little push.<\/p>\n<p>Science is built into his reading and history but he still has an experiment each week. He has been doing fairly well self guiding these which I appreciate because it seems like the experiments always get dropped from my to do list.<\/p>\n<p>Ben doesn&#8217;t have any specific extras this unit. He enjoys being our tech man at church. He will start basketball in the middle of October and play through February. He has been doing some workouts with dad and shooting on the driveway in order to stay in shape. He babysits about once a week for spending money and spends most of his free time playing video games with friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started in the middle of August and managed to string together an almost unbroken 6 weeks. Hannah has been keeping us in line to stay on track with her dual credit class. Benjamin&#8217;s schedule this year is as follows: Core J History of Science, LAJ, SciJ History of Science, Algebra, Basketball Bible hasn&#8217;t changed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23701,"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":[201,4452,302,303],"tags":[1503,4622,3401,793],"class_list":["post-23700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benjamin-kids","category-core-j","category-horizons-math","category-science-homeschool","tag-1st-6-weeks","tag-8th-grade","tag-report","tag-update","wpcat-201-id","wpcat-4452-id","wpcat-302-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-6ag","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26586,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/6th-6-weeks-of-core-j","url_meta":{"origin":23700,"position":0},"title":"6th 6 Weeks of Core J","author":"Becca","date":"June 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Benjamin finished up 8th grade in the middle of May. 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