This is my daughter’s last year of school, I wanted to make sure that I covered everything that I “think” she should know.
For her writing I have come up with some copywork and some journaling for her to do each week. I purchased a college ruled composition notebook. It has 100 pages so I had to come up with a way to split it up for her to do something each of the 40 weeks of school.
The first part of the book has her penmanship lessons. You can download it here for FREE. It includes lesson for 40 weeks. I generally gave her 7-9 lines to copy in cursive. I will have her copy the verse or quote 3 or 4 times depending upon how long each verse is.
After you print off your stack of quotes, by the way these are all perfect bible verse, famous quotes, encouraging statements for a young person to memorize as they are copying, you are going to have to cut them apart to fit in your book. I pasted them on the opposite page that she is to write on. I got this idea from Donna Young The fonts are sized to fit perfectly on the lines, this way my daughter will know exactly how big to make each letter.
Okay, that took 40 pages, I figured I would have her write on Monday. Then on Tuesday and Wednesday each week, I had her do journaling. I found some great writing prompts that really challenge our young adults to think about things and then write them out. You can download them here for FREE.
I put each weeks lesson on two pages facing each other, that way I only used 40 more pages of the book. I originally started by using Scotch tape to put these down, then later realized that a glue stick works much better.
Then for the last 20 pages I split them up in half and gave her 2 words of the top 100 commonly misspelled words. I figured on Thursday she could copy these words ten times each. Of course there are 100 words and only 80 will get used if you split them up, so we added a few more in on some weeks. You can download my list here.
Now I feel like my daughter will get sufficient practice in penmanship this year.
Want to know what I did for my pre-teen son? Click here for his copywork
Here is what we did for our 1st or 2nd grade girls copywork and journaling
Thank you for these ideas! I have been happily printing and looking forward to next school year. 🙂
Thank you for taking the time and effort to share this. 🙂
your very much welcome:)
Thank you soooo much for all your great ideas and resources. You are a blessing!
Your very welcome!! Happy to share.
I was trying to get the copy writing lessons to download but they won’t.
CLick on the links within the post:)
Hi Amy, what do you use for 3rd and 4th grade writing? Thank you, Elisa
Hello, I have a cursive book that I do with them. If they are learning print, I just copy that myself in one of those dollar store books. If they are ready for cursive, I have a cursive handwriting book that we use on the homeschooling resources page. 🙂
Your first paragraph said that it is your daughter’s last year of school. Do your high schoolers go through to 12th grade, or what grade do you stop for high school?
Depends on the child and what they are going to do:) In Michigan we didn’t have any set rules on homeschooling so we did until they finished all their work and then did life work:) Here is different, North Carolina…will have to do 12 years of school or complete GED
Hi Amy! Just found your site while looking for Home Economics courses. I can’t seem to find a way to print them from your site. Is it? Thanks so much! Blessings!
You can purchase the PDF version and then print them off or come here and do online and print individually:) I also have the book available for sale on Amazon:)
I have an 8th grade curriculum workbook. I was wondering where the vocabulary is located. We have not come across it yet.
Look at the back of the book:)
Do you have curriculum for the rest of high school (10-12)? What do you do for science and history?
I don’t…we do a lot of real life books…library and watching documentaries…history videos…there are tons of resources for free there. I did get Abeka History of the World …order an older version on Amazon..it only takes out the last few years which your child probably knows or at least you can explain or share with current documentary series.
I’m very excited that I found your site. I’m curious if you plan on continuing your work with the high school grades. I believe I saw something for 9th grade. I look forward to hearing back from you. Thank you for your time. I can’t even comprehend how you have done all that you have, all while raising and teaching your children. Absolutely amazing!
I am not, as I have learned we do other things and more real life learning after this point, I hope that helps, I have some videos on what we do through high school:)
I’m so grateful for your curriculum and all of your ideas!