Are you looking for a solid eighth grade homeschool curriculum to finish out the middle school years? Not to worry, I have you covered for this and all the other grade levels. Also, you’ll love my pages Homeschool Curriculum for more ideas and grade level curriculum. And my other page How to Successfully Homeschool Middle School.
I have assembled a collection of curriculum that covers all learning styles and of course have some tips to help you both have a great year.
Eighth grade is a transition year and is a time to help fill in learning gaps for your child before they make the move to high school.
And you can do this by pulling together curriculum choices from different places to meet them where they are in every subject.
I have found that while they become more independent it doesn’t mean they don’t need you at all.
In fact in some ways, they need you more though it seems from a distance.
This is the perfect time to start planning together.
The last year of middle school is a foray into word study and literature, composition, spelling, and time to get the prerequisite of Pre-Algebra before high school.
You can start other electives like foreign language early as well if you like to give credits toward high school.
Eighth Grade Homeschool Tips and Recommendations
- Adjust as needed in the curriculum to help your child wherever they may be struggling, enhance where they excel, and challenge them a little more.
- Consider using a variety of teaching methods like textbooks, online, board games, field trips, worksheets, hands on experiments, etc.
- This year, start looking together at next year’s possible classes and courses. Based on your child’s interest and possible future career choice. you may stick with the curriculum you’ve been using for years, or you may decide this year requires a change in a class, too, or all of them.
In addition, within the next year, your child will be old enough for a part-time job.
With that on the horizon, it’s a wonderful time to role-play going to job interviews, practicing filling out applications, which includes learning all their own personal information.
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8th Grade Homeschool Curriculum
Add these fun curriculum recommendations to your 8th grader's homeschool day.
While your child may be in higher or lower math we're starting with Pre Algebra in 8th grade.
If a child is on a college track, he will want to do pre algebra in middle school.
If your child learns well with manipulatives and the mastery style of teaching Demme learnings Math-U-See has been a popular well-loved option. Math-U-See takes a very systematic and cumulative approach to teaching concepts and includes not just manipulatives but also videos explaining how each step is done, Instruction manual, and student texts.
Unless your child is heading for a heavy science based field like doctor, pharmacist, or Marine Biologist you can still get a good deal of their science lessons from games, and simple courses of interest.
Here is a list of 12Human Body Games For Middle School & High School ideal for fun anatomy lessons.
Use this time to start diving into specific areas of science interest like Forensic Science.
Apologia has long been a go to standard for science and one of the common 9th grade sciences is Physical Science. You can choose from physical books and ebooks, get a concise teacher manual,
audiobooks, test pages,
A complete, one-year English course or elective for high school, or use many of the lessons to supplement grades 7-8. This course uses 17 classic movies (DVDs not included) to introduce and study the elements of literary analysis. The book contains a student section and an extensive teacher's guide. Each lesson includes questions for discussion and composition and extended activity suggestions for anyone wanting to use it as an Honor's course. Also included: plot summaries, glossary of literary terms, and final exam. This course will not only give students the tools to appreciate good books more fully, but will also equip them with the ability to discern underlying messages in movies, rather than simply absorb them. It also offers students with difficulty reading (such as dyslexia) or remembering what they've read an opportunity to use their strengths by comprehending and analyzing stories appropriate for their age, not their reading level.
36 weekly lessons divided into daily plans.
4 Book Studies (listed in the order they appear):Across Five Aprils by Irene HuntA Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter AldrichEric Liddell by Catherine SwiftGod's Smuggler by Brother Andrew
Integrated language arts lessons including: grammar, spelling, higher order thinking, and study skills.
Spelling lists each week from the most Commonly Misspelled Words.
Vocabulary Building exercises bring meaning to vocabulary in context making it useful in everyday language. Continued study of suffixes, prefixes, and root words prepares students for college testing.
PLUS, a five week Writing Unit!
Teacher friendly, with little or no preparation needed!
Purchase this package if you already own or have access to the accompanying SSS-1C video course. Includes a complete set of student materials for extra students who are watching the video course in a group or classroom, including a 3-ring student binder with eight tabs for organizing student work and a packet of handouts with source texts, checklists, and more! Plus a complete Teacher’s Manual containing embedded images of student pages, along with suggested answers, video board notes, teaching tips, and access to students’ sample essays that are read aloud on the video.
The 500 words you must know before college!
Must Know High School Vocabulary is more than just a vocabulary workbook. It gives you the edge you’ll need now―from improving your reading comprehension for high school and future college course work to scoring higher on AP and college entrance exams. Its user-friendly approach presents challenging aspects of the topics, exceptions to any rules, and clear answer explanations that will all help you build vocabulary quickly and easily. It’s like a lightning bolt to the brain!
One of the most exciting aspects of 9th grade year is of course driving!
