Thank you to everyone who replied to this post. I have followed up on many of the resources and I feel much better that there are excellent options for this year in the subject areas that I listed.
I was particularly impressed with Michal Clay Thompson's Language Arts curriculum. I was already familiar with The Word within the Word, but did not know that there were so many other resources available. There seemed to be a lot of good "developing the gifted mind" sorts of books as well.
I also wanted to mention that Singapore Science does look good--I have used some of the Singapore Math books with students that I tutor and they are good--not a lot of repetition, but good conceptually. The science looks good, but does not follow our state's content standard for 7th and 8th grade. So, I followed up on a thought from ebeth--using our school text book. This was interesting--I went out to gettextbooks.com where you can do a search by ISBN number--our 7th grade science text is availble used (2004 addition--there are more recent additions) for about $7.00--including shipping! I'm thinking that we could get the book and also supplement with Singapore and things like bitesizephysics (also looks neat!) I can't remember who asked, but we would be interested in this class--January might just be the right time frame for us--assuming we make the homeschooling leap soon. I feel like we are very close.
Please post anything additional you think of--I still haven't figured out Social Studies, but after looking at the (Ohio) state academic standards, they seem so general, that studying about any culture, etc. would meet the criteria--maybe this is another place to get the text book to use as a guide and fill in with more interesting activities, reading, etc.
Thanks,
Julie
