Age 7 to 9

Age 7-9 Videos

What Will Your 8-Year-Old Do This Year?

Will he read...

nine fictional chapter books and two graphic novels;
four biographies;
nine books related to government, economics, communities and cultures, and the environment;
eight books that investigate the water cycle, maps, weather, life cycles, and tropical rainforests;
and six books that explore fractions, place value, division, perimeter, and area?

Will he write...

personal letters,
journal entries,
persuasive speeches,
descriptive paragraphs,
creative stories,
a variety of poems, and
a monologue?

Will he explore...

the properties of water,
weather topics like wind and temperature,
the basic principles of economics,
how heat transfer works,
the life cycle of a butterfly,
how the ear perceives sound,
how to use different punctuation marks,
the parts of the water cycle, and
how instruments work?

Will he make...

his own instrument,
a place model board game,
a wildflower guidebook,
a model of the eardrum,
a map of an imaginary island,
a video demonstrating liquid volume,
a movie in a box,
a time capsule, and
a design for a new kind of animal?

He will do all this and more if he uses the Age 7-9 level this year.

Prerequisites

Language Arts

Able to read and comprehend chapter books on a 3rd or early 4th grade reading level
Can answer comprehension questions about a chapter in a journal
Able to write three or four sentences on a topic
Usually used by children in third grade

Placement Assessments

Math

Can add and subtract three-digit numbers
Able to interpret pictographs, bar graphs, and line plots
Understands place value to 1000
Usually used by children in the third grade

Math Placement Questionnaire

Math Scope and Sequence

What's New and Different for Age 7-9

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 outline for each concept is listed below and shows how each literature unit ties in with the primary concept of each unit.

Science and Social Studies

Language Arts

Concept 1: Environment

Unit 1. Amazing Weather

Unit 1. Tornado

Unit 2. The Land

Unit 2. Sarah, Plain and Tall

Unit 3. Sound

Unit 3. Who Was Helen Keller?

Concept 2: Change

Unit 1. Environments Change

Unit 1. Morning Girl

Unit 2. Communities Change Over Time

Unit 2. Communities and Culture

Unit 3. People Change the World

Unit 3. American Heroes

Concept 3: Cycles

Unit 1. Life Cycles

Unit 1. Poppy

Unit 2. The Water Cycle

Unit 2. Charlotte's Web

Unit 3. Economic Cycles

Unit 3. The Family Under the Bridge

Concept 4: Relationships

Unit 1. The Rain Forest

Unit 1. One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest

Unit 2. Government and the People

Unit 2. The Whipping Boy

Unit 3. Connected Cultures

Unit 3. Iggie's House

Math Units

Math

Unit 1. Multiplication and Division I

Unit 2. Place Value

Unit 3. Measurement

Unit 4. Multiplication and Division II

Unit 5. Area and Perimeter

Unit 6. Fractions

Unit 7. Geometry

Unit 8. Graphing Data

Unit 9. Skills Review

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.

Beyond Standards

Because all lessons are based on state and national standards, your child will learn all of the necessary skills for his age. Your child will continue to be challenged to read and write at a higher level.

Summary of Skills

The links below will take you to the Summary of Skills for each of the concepts that make up the Age 7-9 curriculum. The Summary of Skills is a list of the state and national standards that are covered within Moving Beyond the Page. This list can be useful for your own planning purposes, but it is also quite helpful when submitting required documentation to fulfill state and local reporting requirements.

Age 7-9 Common Core Alignment

Our curriculum has excellent coverage of the Common Core standards for ELA and Math.

English Language Arts
Review our alignment with the Common Core Standards for Language Arts.
Math
Review our alignment with the Common Core Standards for Math.

What Else Do I Need?

With Moving Beyond the Page you will have everything you need for a full year of homeschooling that will engage and challenge your child in science, social studies, language arts, and math.

Schedules

Moving Beyond the Page is easy to use without a formal schedule. Just finish one lesson each day from each of the subject areas, and you will finish in about the same time as a traditional school year.

If you prefer to plan your year out more explicitly, you can choose from one of the following schedules. Any of these schedules can also be used for a year-round schedule.

Age 7-9 Five-Day Schedule
One lesson each day, five days per week, for a 36-week school year.
Age 7-9 Four-Day Schedule
A little more than one lesson each day, four days per week, for a 36-week school year.
Age 7-9 Relaxed Four-Day Schedule
One lesson each day, four days per week. Extra days are added to the end of the school year.