Fall Homeschool Plans | Seventh Grade 2024

[Music] hey everybody Welcome to the wock way I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be our fall homeschool plans now when I say the fall for our homeschool that means September October and November I try my best to split our terms if you will into like three month sections that doesn't always work great at the holidays but for the most part it works the rest of the seasons um for the fall our plans are just a little bit complicated because we start back to school September 1st we will have two full School weeks at home and then we leave on a month-long cross country National Park road trip and then we'll come back for the remainder which will be like the last 6 weeks so it's a little complicated um our National Park Road Trip is going to be even larger than the one we took last year and will be gone even longer what we are hoping to hit which is going to be a huge part of our learning this fall in a perfect world is Gateway Arch bad lands Mount Rushmore Wind Cave hopefully as of right now it says that the elevator will be fixed in fall and it's going to be fall if it's not fixed we'll be skipping that one um Devil's Tower Yellowstone grand ton and then all five of the Utah national parks so arches Bryce Canyon Canyon Land Capitol Reef Zion that is the plan it is a lot of states it is a lot of stops um like I said that's in a perfect world so with that being said I kind of have two piles a pile of things that I intend for us to do on the road and at home versus a pile of things that we're only going to be doing when we're home which means that it's not going to be done for at least a month so when we are at home and on the road one of the things that we will be doing are our Discovery decks they have become an absolute essential in our home school it is a perfect way for me to get 5 to 10 minutes of Peace for me to get Emily to wake up and learn something while she's eating um for me to take on the car and the go like it's a great way for me to sneak in educational screen time they're absolutely perfect another thing is she can learn about whatever she wants to that day so like she has all the cards and if she's like huh you know what sounds good today is the three branches of government on our trip I plan to take three of my picks and three of her picks as far as the decks go so my picks are obviously US Government US history and the presidents um her picks will probably be all about animals and then the new birds and bugs that is my guess I could be wrong but they'll probably be animal-based um but that's my plan is to basically take six decks three topics that I pick three topics that she picks and then obviously when we're home I just put all of the cards in this container right here and she just picks a new one or a strew one if there's one specific that I want her but we just kind of randomly flip through them they're not necessarily sorted um the other things that we will be doing when we are home and on the road are traveling this States we will be doing these on the road and at home specifically on the road we will only do the states that we are actually driving through or going to um I'm going to only print the pages for those States for her and I to take that way if something happens to it I'm not like upset whatever it's fine um same thing with traveling the parks I will specifically only take the national parks that we're going to be going to or stopping at me and Emily both have um clipboards that like have the you know open and shut so I will put her pages in her clipboard and the teacher pages in my clipboard so that I have the QR codes and all that um with me and like that way if you know it gets wrinkled or whatever it's not like my whole curriculum and that way I'm not taking things that we're not going to be doing because I know we'll only do the states and the parks that we're actually going to be doing or going to on our road trip for math I am going to be using our mathematics for everyday learning on on the road I will obviously incorporate this when we're home too but specifically when we are on the road I'm going to be referencing the math on the goh section quite a bit um and then I will also see what else I can pull from it to just kind of keep us doing real world Everyday Math there will probably be a lot of mileage and figuring out our gas and cost and budgeting and that kind of stuff using that as a base um and then her book clubs so luckily her book clubs are on out School we should have Wi-Fi pretty much everywhere we go because we actually have Wi-Fi in our car thank goodness um because that's how I can still work on the go as well so she should be able to either between the hotel or um the car do her book clubs no matter what and she loves them and wouldn't want to miss them so in the fall the three books that she's doing with Mary Hannah Wilson are masterminds Mercy Suarez changes gear in the first state of being now she's already read this one cuz this book club is before we leave this one um this is the book club that will be while we're gone so I have already gotten a copy on her Kindle because I am trying to take don't get me wrong I am still taking a plethora of books and games I'm trying to take as little as possible um so this I already got on her Kindle for her so she can finish reading it when we're on the go and well as masterminds if she finishes Mercy sorz she can start it so I have those on the Kindle to make traveling a little bit easier and then when we get home or when we're home before we leave and then when we come back home the things that we will be doing will be Dennison pre-algebra Fixit grammar our US Government study I'm saving this because this is 6 weeks and if we were to time it right we will be back with exactly six weeks to the week before the election which means that we could do this whole study at home and essentially end it right as the election starts so that is why I'm saving this for when we come back um and then along with that I really wanted to also save our Giver novel study because I kind of love the parallel of like government and enal and how different this kind of I guess government is um versus like what we have and I really kind of want to draw the that parallel and kind of compare and contrast that and I may even have her create her own government after reading about the US government and then reading about something like a Utopia um in The Giver and then we will also still be doing a lot of mini units like who what where for sure I know that we will will be doing the where is Mt Rushmore the who was George Washington the who was Abraham Lincoln the who was Thomas Jefferson and you guessed it who was Theodore Roosevelt because we are going to Mount Rushmore my plan is to actually get these in before we leave because we have that twoe window before so that she are already familiar with Rushmore and the presidents that are featured on it um but then when we get back I'm sure as we're reading through our government study and we're doing other things I'll pull other who what where mini units and do those as well um and then the last thing is subscriptions because we always have subscriptions obviously the subscriptions will only be done actually that's not true one of them will be done on the go but for the most part they're not going to be done except when we're home the one that will be done on the go is our letters subscriptions so these are our subscriptions to um Heritage letter and American Heritage letter I will be taking our American Heritage Adventure I will be taking our American Heritage Adventure letters that fit in with us so I have like the Badlands letter the Mount Rushmore letter Yellowstone letter Grand Teton arches and this one has our address on it but it's cion um so that is my plan is to just kind of stick these in a bag and we will read them like as we're driving to that specific Park um and then we also have other letters like their Heritage letter um writings from the wild I'm trying to think we have three or four other letters that we get that we really love I will link a video to our uh letter subscriptions up here if you're interested in knowing and learning more about them um but that is when we will take with us and then none of the others we will do on the go we will just do them whenever we're home and when we're doing Ma time Monday like usual and then in our seventh grade curriculum picks I told you that I would update you on the subscriptions that we were using quarterly because I'm only going to do month to month as we kind of figure out what is going to fit Us best so the ones that we are doing for the fall the ones that I went ahead I I think some of them let me do a three Monon anyway the ones we're doing for the fall are the crunch labs in their new hack pack um I'm trying not to show our address Kevin thinks that Emily has probably almost grown out of crunch Labs Emily is like I don't think I have so our plan is to let her continue to get the crunch labs and the hack pack for now and then at the end of this quarter kind of say like okay do you really still now think you need both I will say they did a hack pack the other day and she was so excited and even Kevin was like this is really cool but the hack pack only comes every other month because that's just what they have right now it's more advanced um and I think that's why she still wants crunch laps to kind of fill in when she's not getting a hack pack but I would say if hackpack came every month she 100% would be like I want it and not crunch Labs because it's just more advanced and a lot more fun and then kiwi Co it's kind of a similar thing um the two of them were like eh one of them wanted to get the make it set the other one wanted to get the Eureka set which is their oldest line um right yeah the maker and the Eureka this was not a good month because the maker was a chessboard um Kevin wanted the Eureka Emily kind of wanted the maker and the Eureka the maker was the chessboard with chess pieces which did not help sell his point at all it really just made her want to keep getting the maker so for this quarter that's where we're doing we're getting both at the end we'll talk about it and see like as a family do you still really both want both of them do you still really like both of them and hopefully we can pick one because what I would like to see is like if we're going to do both do one for three or six months and do then do the other for three to six months versus getting both every month but I'm not really going to argue too much she loves them she does them she learns you know while she's doing them so it's not like it's not like she's wasting the money but I would just love to see a stick to one because we don't always now as busy as we are have the time to do um as many as we did when she was younger and she wasn't in so many extracurricular activities and that brings me to the last thing for the extracurriculars for the fall she will be doing karate 4 um which is her archery and I believe she has three 4 competitions in the fall and no more I think we're done no we have one more um Family archery competition and I'm hoping that that's it because our fall is kind of full with us being gone for a month so we were trying to limit outside expectations and Promises to as minimal as possible so that is what we will be doing outside is just basically karate and archery through 4 so that is it that is our plans for the fall they're a little bit kind of everywhere originally I had intended for us to leave for our trip as soon as the school year started so that we would just be gone for a month and then home for 2 months but it just didn't play out that way and so it's just going to be a little bit weird cuz we'll be home for 2 weeks gone for 4 weeks home for 6 weeks but we're going to make it work we're going to make the best of it it's hopefully going to be a fantastic trip with tons of learning um and I will just get creative with my planning but now I would absolutely love to know what are your fall homeschool plans so please let me know what your plans are down in the comments [Music]