When I came across Total Health: Talking About Life Changes for Middle School on ChristianBook.com a few years ago, there weren’t many options for health curriculum available for home educating families. The selection was extremely limited, but I knew I wanted a curriculum that would guide me as I taught my daughters about the importance of caring for their bodies.

After struggling with the unnecessary changes in our language arts for most of last school year and part of this school year, I decided to go back to what works for our homeschool which is working through resources that focus on specific grammar skills versus combining all the areas of English in one text.

This year my seventh grade daughter is using BJU Press Fundamentals of Math.  This is our first full year of using BJU Press math curriculum, and our first middle school math course. I appreciate being able to review a curriculum that we really enjoy. 

I am often asked my thoughts about Jenny Phillips' The Good and The Beautiful Language Arts curriculum because I shared tips for organizing The Good and The Beautiful. It's been about a year since we were first introduced to the curriculum, and today I want to share my thoughts about the language arts program, but first let me answer the question that I am often asked.

The Character Foundation Series has books for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade.  We are using the 5th grade character book in our homeschool.  Pleasing the Lord focuses on the biblical character, Joshua.

BJU Press Math is written to the teacher.  There are few instructions in the student worktext although there are examples in the student text for all new information.