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Looking for a fun, high-interest, and engaging learning group for your 8th grader? This course is individualized so each and every student is working on their own plan while still being able to learn with their peers. For over 10 years we have worked with homeschoolers in a microschool co-op Ms. Iman started. Our Kind Curriculum©️ is engaging, project-based, and sparks the wonder in our students. 

Our curriculum covers the following:
🗣️Language Arts Skills 
➗ Math Skills 
😁Social Emotional Skills 
🎓 Leadership Skills
💸 Entrepreneurship
🔬STEM Skills 
✍️Writing Skills 
🧪Science Skills 
📖Reading Comprehension Skills
🎨 Art Skills 

During this class students will be able to build connections and friendships with peers while having fun learning all the skills they need to know during 8th and 9th grade.   Our courses are short and done with very small groups of learners so students can really have the chance to have the attention of the teacher and connect with other students. 

Each class covers the following
Day 1: Math: 30 minutes of group fluency, minilessons, and Word Problems, 20 minutes of independent lessons where students work through fluency, concept development, and independent practice at their own pace with precise and supportive digital and teacher feedback.

Topic A Rigid Transformations
Lesson 1 Describe a translation or rotation of a shape using informal language, such as “slide” and “turn.”
Lesson 3 Draw the image of a figure that results from a translation, rotation, and reflection on a grid.
Topic B Properties of Rigid Transformations
Lesson 7 Compare measurements of sides and angles on a shape before and after rigid transformations.
Lesson 10 Identify side lengths and angle measures using properties of rigid transformations.
Topic C Congruence
Lesson 12 Use rigid transformations to decide whether or not two figures are congruent.
Lesson 13 Determine whether shapes are congruent by measuring the distances between corresponding points.
Topic D Angles in a Triangle
Lesson 14 Calculate angle measures using alternate interior, vertical, and supplementary angles to solve problems.
Lesson 15 Use the measure of a straight angle to prove that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees.
Topic E Let’s Put It to Work
Lesson 17 Create tessellations and designs with rotational symmetry using rigid transformations.
Topic A Dilations
Lesson 2 Dilate polygons using a circular grid given a scale factor and center of dilation.
Lesson 3 Perform dilations without a circular grid given a scale factor and center of dilation.
Topic B Similarity
Lesson 7 Understand that similar polygons have congruent corresponding angles and proportional side lengths.
Lesson 8 Determine that two triangles are similar by finding a sequence of transformations that takes one triangle
to the other or checking that two pairs of corresponding angles are congruent.
Topic C Slope
Lesson 10 Find the slope of a line on a grid using properties of slope triangles.
Lesson 12 Write an equation for a line and use line equations to determine if a point is on a line.
Topic D Let’s Put It to Work
Lesson 3 Find the rate of change of a proportional relationship given the graph, equation, table, or situation.
Lesson 4 Compare the rates of change of proportional relationships presented in multiple ways.
Topic B Representing Linear Relationships
Lesson 6 Interpret the slope and vertical intercept of a graph of a real-world situation.
Mid-Mission Assessment: Topics A-B
Topic C Finding Slopes
Lesson 10 Calculate the slope of any line given the coordinates of two points on the line.
Topic D Linear Equations
Lesson 12 Determine pairs of values that satisfy or do not satisfy a linear relationship using an equation or graph.
Topic E Let’s Put It to Work
Lesson 14 Write and interpret linear equations representing real-world situations.
Lesson 15 Use graphs to represent the solution set to a linear inequality in two variables.
Topic A Puzzle Problems
Lesson 1 Write and solve puzzle problems using different representations.
Topic B Linear Equations in One Variable
Lesson 4
Solve linear equations in one variable by performing balanced moves to both sides of the equation.
Lesson 6 Use different strategies for solving linear equations in one variable based on their features or structures.
Lesson 8 Determine the number of solutions a linear equation has using the structure of the equation. Describe
features of linear equations with one solution, no solutions, or infinitely many solutions.
Mid-Mission Assessment: Topics A-B
Topic C Systems of Linear Equations
Lesson 11 Create a graph that represents two linear relationships in context, and interpret the point of intersection.
Lesson 12 Solve a system of equations graphically or algebraically. Understand that finding the solution to a
system means finding values of the variables that make both equations true at the same time.
Lesson 13 Solve a system of equations, and identify the number of solutions it has.
Lesson 14 Calculate values that are a solution for a system of equations using substitution.
Lesson 15 Create a system of equations that represents a situation and interpret the solution in context.
Topic D Let’s Put It to Work
Lesson 16 Create and solve a system of equations in context, and present the solution method to the class.
Topic A Inputs and Outputs
Lesson 2 Define a function and determine if an input-output relationship represents a function.
Topic B Representing and Interpreting Functions
Lesson 6 Sketch and interpret graphs given the context of a real world situation.
Lesson 7 Interpret multiple representations of functions, including graphs, tables, and equations.
Topic C Linear Functions and Rates of Change
Topic D Cylinders and Cones
Lesson 11 Gather data of the heights of certain cylinders as a function of volume, graph the relationship, and
compare the rates of change of the functions.
Lesson 12 Estimate the volumes of various containers using different units of measure and explain the reasoning
through discussion.
Lesson 13 Calculate the volume of a cylinder.
Lesson 14 Calculate the value of one dimension of a cylinder, and explain the reasoning.
Lesson 16 Calculate the value of one dimension of a cone, and explain the reasoning.
Topic E Dimensions and Spheres
Lesson 17 Determine how scaling one dimension of a figure affects the volume.
Lesson 18 Determine how the volume of a figure changes when two dimensions are scaled by a factor.
Lesson 19 Estimate the volume of a hemisphere.
Lesson 21 Find the volumes of cylinders, cones, spheres, and rectangular prisms.
Topic F Let’s Put It to Work
Topic A Does This Predict That?
Lesson 1 Organize data, describe patterns, and make predictions using tables and scatter plots.
Lesson 2 Create a scatter plot from a table of data and describe the trend of the data.
Topic B Associations in Numerical Data
Lesson 4 Use a model to predict values for data and identify outliers on a scatter plot.
Lesson 8 Analyze a set of data to determine associations between two variables, and interpret features of a
scatter plot with a line of fit, including outliers, slope of the line, and clustering.
Topic D Let’s Put It to Work
Lesson 13 Use the sample space to determine the probability of a compound event.
Topic A Exponent Review
Lesson 1 Compare quantities using expressions that represent repeated multiplication, and comprehend that
repeated division of a number is equivalent to repeated multiplication by its reciprocal.
Topic B Exponent Rules
Lesson 7 Use an appropriate exponent rule to rewrite an expression with a single, positive exponent.
Lesson 8 Generalize a process for multiplying expressions with different bases having the same exponent.
Mid-Mission Assessment: Topics A-B
Topic C Scientific Notation
Lesson 9 Describe large and small numbers as multiples of powers of 10.
Lesson 10 Compare large numbers using powers of 10.
Lesson 11 Represent small numbers as multiples of powers of 10, and compare numbers using powers of 10.
Lesson 12 Use exponent rules and powers of 10 to solve problems in context.
Lesson 15 Add and subtract numbers in scientific notation.
Topic D Let’s Put It to Work
Lesson 16 Use scientific notation to compare very large and very small quantities.
Topic A The Size of Shapes
Lesson 1 Calculate the area of a tilted square on a grid by using decomposition strategies.
Topic B Side Lengths and Areas of Squares
Lesson 5 Identify the two whole number values that a square root is between
Topic C The Pythagorean Theorem
Lesson 8 Calculate unknown side lengths of a right triangle by using the Pythagorean Theorem.
Lesson 10 Use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems within a context.
Lesson 11 Calculate the distance between two points in the coordinate plane by using the Pythagorean Theorem.
Topic D Side Lengths and Volumes of Cubes
Lesson 13 Determine the whole numbers that a cube root lies between.
Topic E Decimal Representation of Rational and Irrational Numbers
Lesson 15 Write a repeating decimal as a fraction.

Day 2: English Language Arts and Writing Skills with minutes minilessons and discussions to include stories, reading comprehension skill building, videos, poetry, and Writing Assignments with feedback

Unit 1: How Can You Benefit from Written Communication?
Pretest: How Can You Benefit from Written Communication?
Discussion: How Can You Benefit from Written Communication?
Dear Diary: Writing for Yourself
Memoirs
Writing Informative Essays
Reading Fictional Narratives
Writing Narratives
Unit Activity: How Can You Benefit from Written Communication?
Post Test: How Can You Benefit from Written Communication?
Unit 2: How Does Communication Style Affect Your Understanding?
Pretest: How Does Communication Style Affect Your Understanding?
Discussion: How Does Communication Style Affect Your Understanding?
Elements of Drama: Trifles
Character Study: "Fourteen"
Giving Multimedia Presentations
Film Adaptations
Performing Poetry: Dramatic Readings
Unit Activity: How Does Communication Style Affect Your Understanding?
Post Test: How Does Communication Style Affect Your Understanding?
Unit 3: How Can You Make Peace with Conflict?
Pretest: How Can You Make Peace with Conflict?
Discussion: How Can You Make Peace with Conflict?
Determining Main Idea and Point of View
Analyzing Arguments in Documents
Researching a Persuasive Argument
Writing a Persuasive Argument
Debating an Argument
Unit Activity: How Can You Make Peace with Conflict?
Post Test: How Can You Make Peace with Conflict?
Unit 4: How Do You Analyze Internal and External Struggles?
Pretest: How Do You Analyze Internal and External Struggles?
Discussion: How Do You Analyze Internal and External Struggles?
Point of View and Conflict with the Self in Short Stories
Word Choice and Stories with Plot Twists
Theme, Setting, and Cultural Conflict in Short Stories
Writing About Short Fiction
Unit Activity: How Do You Analyze Internal and External Struggles?
Post Test: How Do You Analyze Internal and External Struggles?
End of Semester Test: English 8A

Day 3: Hands-on Project-Based Learning Activity and  Individual Work Time to include Art, Social Studies, Science, and STEM projects. Projects will typically cover optional assignments from the book we are working on that week

Unit 1: Genes
Pretest: Genes
Discussion: Genes
What Is Science?
Introduction to Genes
Course Activity: Your Genetic Traits
Genetic Mutations
Course Activity: Identifying Adaptations
Natural Selection
Artificial Selection
Genetic Diversity
Unit Activity: Genes
Post Test: Genes
Unit 2: Evolution
Pretest: Evolution
Discussion: Evolution
Course Activity: Fossils and Coal Formation
What Is Evolution?
Course Activity: Classifying Organisms
Embryology
Comparative Anatomy
Fossils
Unit Activity: Evolution
Post Test: Evolution
Unit 3: Energy and the Earth
Pretest: Energy and the Earth
Discussion: Energy and the Earth
Energy Flow
Course Activity: Modeling a Watershed
Matter and Energy
Course Activity: Modeling Tsunamis
Natural Hazards
Course Activity: Designing a Solar Oven
Natural Resources
Unit Activity: Energy and the Earth
Post Test: Energy and the Earth
End of Semester Test: Science 8A

I pride myself on being a loving, engaging, and Kind teacher as do all of our teachers at Kind Academy. We value student opinions and like them to have a chance to interact with each other. Our teachers use hands-on props, videos, songs, and stories to engage with learners.