Curriciulum: Middle School

I have 2 middle school students this year.  A 6th grader and an 8th grader.  They are both extremely independent workers which is great for me!    We are a few weeks into school and they seem to be really enjoying their curriculum, especially some new choices we went with to add some new excitement.


Here is what they spend their days working on:
Bible
They both spend time first thing reading through the Bible on their own.  Later, at naptime or in the evenings with Daddy, we are going through a Bible Curriculum Foundations 3 that has us reading a chaper every day.  We also have Sword Drills twice a week, and memorize a passage of Scripture every week.   They write, illustrate and act out their Bible Memory verses to help them remember them more easily.

Language Arts
6th grade
She is using a new curriculum for us called Intermediate Language Lessons.  I love it immensely and will likely use it for all the children below her in the years to come!     It is a very fun curriculum that doesn't have any "fluff" or (in my opinion) unnecessary grammar stuff that is impractical for the real world.
This is her first year using a spelling curriculum.  She is an excellent speller, but the book she is using Building Spelling Skills 5 covers many of the countries of the world, states and geography.  It also has a lot more practical words too.   It's much more than just spelling.  She seems to like it.
8th grade
Noah will be using 2 Total Language Plus guides this year:  Swiss Family Robinson and the Yearling.
He is also finishing the 2nd part of Jump In writing curriculum.  They have him do a 10 minute "Writing Plunge" every day with a story starter.  It is a lot of fun for him. He is also using Easy Grammar Ultimate 8th grade, that is a 1 page review every day of all grammar concepts.

Math
They are both using Life of Fred.  Hosanna will be doing 2 books this year: Fractions and Decimals & Percents.
Noah is finishing up Keys to Algebra that have helped him review some Algebra concepts and will be starting Beginning Algebra Life of Fred soon.


Science
They are both using Apologia this year.  Noah is using Apologia Physical Science, and Hosanna is using Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology.  Hosanna's comes with a really neat notebook that makes it so much more fun too!
We also just signed Noah up for a really neat, 2-day lab intensive science camp in February.  It sounds so fun, and will help make his Freshman year of Biology much easier.


History
They had an intense year of history last year, so this year is a bit easier.  They have studied all of history except modern history.  They are reading through Story of the World 4 and doing just the map exercises in the activity book.  They are also reading books 6-10 of The Story of U.S.
I have also assigned 8 more books to read to go along with that time period.  (Across Five Aprils, Courage to Run, Hudson Taylor, Sergeant York and the Great War, Twenty and Ten, Hiding Place, Number the Stars and Brother Andrew)

Spanish
Rosetta Stone

Electives
Typing with Mavis Beacon (both)
Thinking Toolbox for Logic (Noah)
Homemaking (Hosanna)
Feed My Sheep Art Curriculum (Hosanna)
Piano (both)
Guitar (Noah)

I think that about covers it.  = )