Moving Beyond The Page 7-9
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The Age 7-9 curriculum constitutes one year of academic instruction in science, social studies, language arts, and math.
In the Age 7-9 curriculum, your child will explore all subject areas using a hands-on and investigative approach. Oftentimes, homeschoolers are only taught reading, writing, and math during the early years, but a truly comprehensive curriculum will expose them to science and social studies as well. These subjects can be the most engaging and exciting for a young child. The curriculum is also filled with quality literature to enjoy with your child.
If you have used Moving Beyond the Page in the younger age levels, you will notice that we have changed the format of our curriculum at the Age 7-9 level and higher. In the lower age levels, the science, social studies, and language arts curricula were fully integrated into a single lesson. Now that children are able to read chapter books, the language arts, science, and social studies lessons are provided separately. In language arts, this takes the form of literature units. This enables your child to learn all of his language arts content in an engaging format that centers around interesting stories and characters. We continue to tie in science and social studies, but instead of doing this within each lesson, we do it thematically. When children study weather in science, they will be reading a book that shows the impact of weather on a family. When they are studying sound, they will read a biography of Helen Keller, learning what life is like without sound. As in the lower levels, the math content is not integrated thematically with the other units, but it is still presented in a project-based format that integrates interesting and creative books throughout the curriculum.
The curriculum is built around four core concepts (Environment, Change, Cycles, and Relationships), each explored over a 9-week period. Each concept is broken down into three 3-week units, with each unit containing roughly 10 lessons and a final project. By following a daily lesson from each subject area, you can complete the curriculum in about a year.
