Revised for 2012!


We believe that you are looking at the best complete curriculum package available for seventh grade. We've combined language arts, math, thinking skills, science, and history programs to make this year an engaging and memorable, yet simple-to-plan, year of learning.

What is included in this grade?

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Language Arts and Reading Most children dread grammar study because it is too complex. But Easy Grammar Plus is just that, easy. By deleting and marking certain words or phases, Easy Grammar Plus employs a virtually "hands-on" approach. The vocabulary has been kept simple and, in most cases, the sentences rather short. This very logical, simple, no-nonsense grammar program is easy to use because each lesson focuses on just one topic. Lots of review helps to ensure comprehensive learning with excellent results. Sequential Spelling is not only the most logical spelling program we've seen, but it is also one of the easiest to use. Simply read your child one list of words a day to write down, correcting any mistakes as you go. That's it! The sequences are based on building from easy words to advanced words, such as from all, to tall, stall, install, installment, and installation; this is an intuitive approach with no memorization required. If your student has not yet completed Sequential Spelling books 1-5, you will want to do them first. Editor-in-Chief B1 provides your student with a mock newspaper article and photo. Engaging and often entertaining, the stories suffer from multiple problems which the child must correct; this is a fascinating way to review grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and attention to detail. The Wordsmith student book and Wordsmith teacher's guide round out the language arts section as a creative writing course that gives students the tools and motivation for expressing their thoughts and experiences on paper. While we believe that reading is the single most important skill to foster in your seventh-grader, you'll notice that we did not include any traditional readers. Don't let this puzzle you. Our experience is that the best way to help your child become an eager reader is to constantly supply him with reading materials that interest him. Future doctors may want to read up on anatomy, young explorers are drawn to the escapades of adventurers young and old, and the baby-lover in your family will be captivated by adoption stories. Assign reading if you must, but encourage it at all costs; a child who enjoys reading will find it easier to excel in every area.

History Did you know that less than ten years after Jonah's trial in a fish, Rome was being established? Or that the last book of the Old Testament was written at about the time of Alexander the Great and that the Great Wall of China was built 200 years before the birth of Christ? As they read the Bible, Christians tend to forget that there were other civilizations warring, struggling, and searching for truth. So The Mystery of History is written with both Biblical and secular history combined. While decidedly Christian in bent, other cultures and faiths are presented with deference. Not just a textbook, it is brimming with multi-age activities, book and video lists, memory helps, and timeline suggestions. The Mystery of History was designed with a thirty-six-week school year in mind. Each week includes a pre-test, three lessons, a review, and an exercise or quiz. If your family is ready to study history in an in-depth, Bible-centered, chronological fashion, then The Mystery of History is for you.

Math Finally, a math text designed specifically for homeschoolers! Teaching Textbooks Math 7's engaging and often humorous text is specifically written to independent learners, and generously illustrated with friendly line-drawings. Teaching Textbooks contains far more explanation than any other math program on the market, but because the series was designed for homeschoolers studying independently, it uses far less irrelevant jargon than other textbooks, while still retaining all the terms that students need to know for those important standardized tests. This program is computer-based, with down-to-earth, step-by-step multimedia lectures, problems, and solutions. After watching the lecture, your child will complete the problems in the workbook, then enter the answers into the computer, where the digital gradebook keeps track for you. The lectures cover the same material as the written lessons in the textbook in greater depth, and many students prefer to listen to (and watch) an explanation for each lesson rather than read it out of a book. Field-tested with outstanding results, this is a brilliant idea, long overdue and skillfully done, with many hours of instruction. Enjoyable, efficient, and effective; what more could you want from a math program?

Christian Kids Explore Physics Version 2 Physics fits my personality. There is nothing wishy-washy about physics; everything has order and purpose, everything that exists is either matter or energy. Lay that foundation well and your child will more easily comprehend mechanics, electricity, magnetism, optics, electronics, and a slew of other physics-based subjects. Christian Kids Explore Physics gives your child an overview of physics with a series of thirty easy-to-understand lessons. Lessons include review exercises, thinking exercises, an answer key, and more. These hands-on activities and experiments are not only fun, but they will actually help your child gain a solid grasp of the concepts. Christian Kids Explore Physics 2.0 now also includes a CD with all of the printables, along with other resources. That is so much more convenient for most of us than photocopying pages!

Engino Mechanical Simple Machines Engino's celebrated components, a colorful sixty-four-page student instruction manual, and nine twenty-page activity booklets combine to create the most remarkable hands-on approach to engineering/physics ever available for homeschooling children. Experiment with the models to understand how machines actually work, how you can change speed, convert motion, increase or transfer force, and easily move heavy objects. Covers the eight most common areas of mechanical science: Levers, Linkages, Gears, Wheels & Axles, Inclined Planes, Pulleys, Cams & Cranks, and Screws. Simple Machines includes detailed directions for building nearly sixty working models, along with reproducible worksheets for thirty-one activities (fourteen printed and seventeen to download) that present a unique, hands-on method of testing your children after each section. But if testing is not how your family rolls, then use this extra booklet as an additional source of experiments pertaining to simple machines.

The Fallacy Detective The Fallacy Detective is self-teaching, meaning no other resources are needed, but it is intended for children and parents to use together. It deals primarily with misleading notions. This is the most practical segment in the study of logic. Abundantly easy to use and engaging to boot, we read The Fallacy Detective aloud as a family and enjoyed some friendly competition as we raced to answer the questions orally.

Anti-Virus There's a virus lurking on the board; time to assemble some powerful little cells to fight it off! In Anti-Virus, your child must manipulate the pieces so that he can push the red "virus" piece out of the game board through the exit in the top corner. A best-seller at homeschool conferences, this very tactile game develops logical thinking, strategic planning, and visual-spatial perception. The vibrant, sturdy pieces can only slide diagonally, and the sixty puzzle challenges will challenge the entire family -- if you can pry it away from your student!

Other A fidget-friendly, hand-exercising, stress-relieving, creativity-enhancing study tool, Thinking Putty helps students focus by giving their hands something to do while their brain is working. Thinking Putty is Silly Putty but enhanced with knock-your-socks-off colors that shift or morph completely as you squeeze. This non-toxic, non-gooey putty will bounce, stretch, tear, drip, snap, even shatter. Silicone-based, it never dries out. Includes an impressive, adult-sized handful of high-quality, moldable putty. Many of you are required by your state to test your child yearly. Spectrum Test Prep gives you a way to prepare for that in a no-stress manner. Includes actual test questions, tips on test preparation, strategies and techniques for answering different kinds of questions, and full-length practice tests.

Gourmet Scented Pencil Smencils Gourmet Scented Pencils are made from 100% recycled newspapers; you can even see the layers of recycled newspaper when you sharpen them! Individually packed in their own freshness tubes (made of corn-based biodegradable plastic), the ten "scent-sational" fragrances are guaranteed to keep their delicious aromas for two years. (One smencil included with each core curriculum).