5th 6 Weeks of 8th Grade

Hannah only has 6 weeks left of 8th grade. It is a race to see if we can finish them before next year starts, haha. 🙂 It is hard when we are having so much fun.

For bible, we are working through The Story with our church. Hannah had a little bit of Friends curriculum to finish and will take a test and we should be able to get her honored this fall. After family devotion, Hannah does her own devotion time and school readings. She has a new book called What’s So Amazing About Grace? and she has memory passages each week.

In history, Hannah is in the next book of The Story of Science series called Einstein Adds a New Dimension. She also read Bomb: The Race to Build and Censored Science: The Suppressed Evidence, has weekly current events, and every now and then we put her timeline stickers on.

During this unit, she finished reading Echo, then Pictures of Hollis Woods and The Phantom Tollbooth. She started Which None Can Shut and The Teacher’s Funeral. Her poetry selections are still from The National Geographic Book of Poetry.

In language, Hannah has spelling with Sequential Spelling 6, vocabulary with Wordly Wise 3000, Book 8, cursive practice, and a creative assignment each week. She has had some fun assignments like writing a radio script. 

Hannah science experiments are into electricity and magnetism now. She is still enjoying them.

Hannah is working through Horizons Pre-Algebra. She will be taking an entrance exam soon to hopefully enroll in dual credit at the local community college for the fall. 

Hannah’s main extras are karate and volleyball. Weekly Royal Rangers, bible study, worship leading. She has been doing some intro piano lessons for some friends and picking up some babysitting. We go to the pool most days. She is very helpful at Connections and church and sometimes leads the discussions in small group time. She even leads worship at WFA on a substitute basis. Super proud! During this unit, we saw family for Ginny’s baptism and Hannah got to go to a Michael W Smith concert with Gram and Nate. The Rangers had a campout by the creek and a bonfire, she received her spring awards, and we had a bbq fundraiser. She tested for green belt in karate. She has been playing in a volleyball league on Friday nights. We saw family again at Memorial Day, helped Gram with a garage sale, and celebrated Ginny’s birthday. And to wrap up, she got to go on a PK (Pastor’s Kid) retreat while we had general council.