What's Covered in Age 7-9
Our Age 7-9 curriculum is a comprehensive, literature-based homeschool curriculum that covers science, social studies, language arts, and math. Typically used as a third-grade homeschool curriculum, it includes detailed daily lesson plans and a curated selection of literature, providing everything you need for a well-rounded and engaging homeschool year.
Discover the Joy of Reading!
After years of building reading skills, your child has reached a major milestone: he can now read simple chapter books! This year, he'll deepen his love of reading and explore new worlds through story. In language arts, he'll enjoy nine captivating chapter books, two graphic novels, and four inspiring biographies. Our literature-based curriculum weaves each day’s lessons around these books, making learning both engaging and meaningful.
Build Strong Writing Skills
This year marks a big leap in your child's writing. Starting with the ability to write 2-4 sentences, he will learn to craft well-structured paragraphs. Along the way, he’ll develop essential writing skills like generating ideas, mastering early grammar, finding his unique voice, and making thoughtful word choices.
In addition to daily writing practice, your child will complete a major writing assignment every three weeks. By the end of the year, he will be able to write multiple paragraphs on a topic. Some examples of other writing assignments he’ll experience include:
- Personal letters
- Journal entries
- Persuasive speeches
- Descriptive paragraphs
- Creative stories
- A variety of poems
- A monologue
Science Comes to Life
Our Age 7-9 curriculum takes your child on an exciting journey through earth science, physics, and biology. This includes topics like weather, mapping, sound, and the rain forest as well as life cycles and the water cycle. Engaging books introduce each topic, sparking curiosity and making science meaningful.
From there, hands-on experiments and activities bring learning to life. Your child will explore topics such as:
- The properties of water
- Weather topics like wind and temperature
- How heat transfer works
- The lifecycle of a butterfly
- How the ear perceives sound
- The parts of the water cycle
- How instruments work
We Live in a Connected World
In social studies, your child will explore how individuals and societies shape the world. He’ll explore the environment, his community, and influential leaders throughout history. The curriculum also introduces key concepts in economics and government, culminating in an appreciation for diverse cultures around the globe.
This level includes a great selection of books to introduce these topics.
To make these abstract ideas concrete, your child will participate in hands-on projects and activities like these:
- Creating dioramas
- Building erupting volcanoes
- Crafting time capsules
- Launching entrepreneurial ventures
- Participating in community initiatives
- Engaging in mock debates
- Designing personal symbols
- Exploring diverse cultures through cooking
- Mapping family origins
These activities not only deepen your child's understanding of social studies but also make learning an enjoyable and immersive experience.
Math Is Made Real
Math is made real when it's understood conceptually, and there's no better way to achieve this than through manipulatives and games. These tools help your child visualize and interact with math in a tangible way, making complex concepts more accessible and engaging. This year, your child will be introduced to multiplication and division, work with different types of graphs, master place value up to 10,000, practice the measurement of time, weight and volume, and be introduced to area, fractions, and geometry.
To reinforce these concepts, he'll also dive into a variety of carefully selected books that complement his math learning, ensuring a well-rounded and enriching experience.
Language Arts Prerequisites
- 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
Math Prerequisites
- 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 QuestionnaireInterdisciplinary Curriculum
Beyond the Page integrates language arts with science and social studies from preschool through middle school.
Each day, your child will complete three lessons.
- One lesson in language arts,
- One in science or social studies (these alternate every three weeks), and
- One in math.
Language arts is presented in the form of literature units that center your child's language arts learning around interesting stories and characters. Rather than giving children a series of random, unrelated activities, all of the writing assignments, grammar lessons, and vocabulary are integrated into these unit studies. This creates a more cohesive experience, and we find that kids are more engaged when they’re writing about stories and characters that interest them.
Social studies and science are tied in thematically with the language arts units. For example, when children study economic cycles in social studies, they will read a book that tells the story of a family experiencing financial hardship. When they are learning about the rain forest in science, they read a story that shows the life of a boy living in the rain forest. This helps to make abstract learning real for young minds.
See a complete list of the units and how they line up.
Beyond Standards
Because all lessons are based on state and national standards, you can be confident your child will learn all of the necessary skills for his age. Your child will also be challenged to read and write at a higher level.
The Age 7-9 Full Year Package - S, SS, LA, M covers science, social studies, language arts, and math.