8-Year-Old Resources (August edition)

I'm still a planner, but I've been handing over more and more of the school choices directly to The Kid. This is resulting in fewer long-term plans, but some interesting school choices. Here are her current plans for fall:

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

Math

• 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

• 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

• 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

Foreign Language

• 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

Other

• 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