{"id":24949,"date":"2024-03-07T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=24949"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:28:06","slug":"4th-6-weeks-of-8th-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/4th-6-weeks-of-8th-grade","title":{"rendered":"4th 6 Weeks of 8th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Only 12 weeks left of junior high for Benjamin. We are on track to actually finish in May this year. Exciting!<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin is following along with our church as we read the bible this year with the Bible Project reading plan on YouVersion. He also has school memory work each week. Benjamin finished <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Finding Truth<\/span> for his theology book this unit.<\/p>\n<p>In history\/social studies, he finished <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Newton At The Center<\/span> and started <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Einstein Adds a New Dimension<\/span>. Ben also read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Mystery of the Periodic Table,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stuff Matters<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bomb: The Race to Build<\/span>. He still does timeline and current events on Fridays. Benjamin has decided to spend some of his late night awake time reading school books (so he can have more game time during the day). So he has mostly been doing all of his reading to himself but sometimes Nate gets to help out. His read alouds were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Secret<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Half A Chance<\/span>, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Code Talkers<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240210_142047-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-24952\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240210_142047-300x225.jpg?resize=461%2C346&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240210_142047-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240210_142047-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240210_142047-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240210_142047-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240210_142047-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240210_142047-scaled.jpg?resize=1422%2C1067&amp;ssl=1 1422w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240210_142047-scaled.jpg?resize=1074%2C806&amp;ssl=1 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a>For readers, Benjamin finished <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH<\/span>, read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Westing Game<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Christmas Carol<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Giver<\/span>. He also has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry<\/span> for some poetry selections each week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Math is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Math U See Algebra I<\/span> and Benjamin finishes easily each week. He recently took an &#8220;abilities&#8221; questionnaire and scored highly on computation and planning\/organizing type abilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LA consists of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sequential Spelling 5<\/span> for spelling, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Classical Roots A<\/span> for Latin, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly Wise Book 8<\/span> for vocabulary. Ben is starting to do a little bit better on his creative writing assignments. Still needs polishing but the higher level of effort is appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Science is built into his reading and history, but he still has an experiment each week. He doesn&#8217;t really like science, or maybe just the experiments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin had a great end of his 8th grade season of basketball. His team made it to the championship bracket of the state tournament, he improved a lot over the season and he has decided to make basketball his sport. He also continues to be our tech man at church and babysits once or twice a week for spending money. He spends the rest of his time playing video games. Gram came up for a long visit to watch some of Ben&#8217;s games and hang out for birthdays and we made a quick trip down to Kerrville to watch Lilly play basketball (and Amy coach).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 12 weeks left of junior high for Benjamin. We are on track to actually finish in May this year. Exciting! Benjamin is following along with our church as we read the bible this year with the Bible Project reading plan on YouVersion. He also has school memory work each week. Benjamin finished Finding Truth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24950,"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":[201,4452,303],"tags":[2062,4622,1983,3401,793],"class_list":["post-24949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benjamin-kids","category-core-j","category-science-homeschool","tag-4th-6-weeks","tag-8th-grade","tag-progress","tag-report","tag-update","wpcat-201-id","wpcat-4452-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-6up","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26586,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/6th-6-weeks-of-core-j","url_meta":{"origin":24949,"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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