English
- Literature class at Athena's Academy
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor (for Kids) - this book is an introduction to literary methods, tropes, and symbols, and should pair well with her literature class
- Barron's 1100 Words You Need To Know - we're taking a break from the Michael Clay Thompson series, but she really wanted to keep doing vocabulary and spelling, so this is filling in
- Vocabulary Cartoons - also feeding her love of words
- Poetry Teas, Brave Writer style
- Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem From the Inside Out - The Kid has long been writing snippets of poetry, and has requested some assistance in learning how to further develop this skill
- NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program - as usual, this will consume all of November and most of October as well
- Live Writing: Breathing Life Into Your Words - we'll use this as The Kid preps for NaNoWriMo this year
- Magazines: Highlights, Spider
- Art of Problem Solving's Introduction to Algebra - she's working through this at home
- Becoming a Problem Solving Genius - one of the Ed Zaccaro books, this one breaks down lots of ways to tackle hard problems. I suspect this would have been a better fit last year, but if she still enjoys it...
- Hard Math for Elementary School - another one that would have been a better fit if I'd bought it earlier, but it still has just a couple sections that will interest The Kid, like working in base 8 and tiling problems
- 25 Real Life Math Investigations That Will Astound Teachers and Students - another Ed Zaccaro book, this one looks to be more on target for where she is now. Each chapter focuses on a real-life way that math gets used (and somethings misused).
- Amazing Math Projects - we've already done most the projects in this book, and she loved them. We'll finish up and then I need to see if I can find another math projects book!
- The Magic of Math - The Kid has seen Art Benjamin speak twice in person, plus watched some of his Great Courses lectures, so using his Algebra-related book during her Algebra year seems like a no-brainer
- The Cartoon Guide to Algebra - I won't assign any of the problems in this book, it's just for fun
- Math With Bad Drawings - not even released yet, but this looks like a fun book!
- Zometool - there is an entire curriculum that came with our Zometool, and we've barely touched it yet! We definitely need to get this out more.
- Science/math unit study class once a week at an enrichment center
- Structural Engineering: Buildings and Skyscrapers - The Kid has done the first couple of projects in this kit, and we'll get back around to the rest at some point.
- Horrible Science books - she's so excited to finally get this set!
- MEL Chemistry kits - a friend gets these and has generously offered to share
- Magazines: Ranger Rick, Ask, National Geographic Kids, Muse
- Subscription to Great Courses Plus - currently watching a lecture series on Polar Explorations
- Monthly astronomy night at local science center
- Monthly lecture series put on by local science center
- Social Studies/Art unit study class once a week at an enrichment center
- Subscription to Great Courses Plus - currently watching lecture series on How The World Learns and another on a History of Food
- History Unboxed - we bought just two boxes to try out, and we'll see how it goes
- Galore Park's So You Really Want to Learn French, book 2
- Homeschool Spanish Academy - she's continuing on once a week to maintain basic fluency
- Hoffman Piano Academy - as desired, not assigned by me
- Music class once per week at enrichment center
- Lego class once per week at enrichment center
- Robotics club at enrichment center
- Learning how to sew
- Her second year with her Destination Imagination team
