Well it sounds like it is the same as when dh and I attended. NOt a good choice for our kids, but it was for us at that time in our lives. ANd no, neither of us are professors though DH is considering going that route after he finishes his military career (he is a PhD physicist).

I haven't with my oldest two. I don't know if I will with my youngest. Since she is a very math person, I might.

:iagree:with the above poster. I think they only work when the groups are based on who wants to be there. That is why my lab partners in Chemistry and Physics were fine but my lab partners in Bio were not. At that time, only brainy kids took chemistry and physics so you didn't do the class if you were a loser. On the other hand, bio was taken by everyone and we had big groups. I did the work, the others giggled, chatted, etc. One boy in my group was okay. He wasn't smart but was at least helpful. Not the other three dopes in my group. I did have a good partnership with my debate partner too. That was a voluntary activity. I didn't have better luck in college either since I wasn't a science major and we had mandatory science. It wasn't that they were such losers, but they were humanity majors:001_smile:. And then in writing, I had non-writers in my group. I didn't like giving others a helpful critique and receive "that's good" in return. I also had that happen in high school and recently, my dd had it happen in her summer fine arts camp. I never had a job that required teamwork and I find committees where no one is the head to be very tiresome. If no one steps up to lead, I do.

I also liked Mrs. Miniver since it shows war from the home standpoint very well.

My previous experiences with schools in three areas weren't like this at all. With this year, I was told to come in on Sept. 30th and register her with my check. THat is what I am planning to do. This one is not as good a test taker as her brother so I am not thinking semi-finalist here. IF there is a problem, I will visit other schools.

I can't say that we have the same problems here though I do worry about my dd with memory issues. I do want to say that I am a teacher at a co-op. I have a few students who I wonder what is the problem. I haven't been told anything about them by their parents nor have they told me anything. IF someone was to tell me that student x has problems with taking notes, or student y can;t do something, I would try to accomodate. Right now, I am thinking how I will address the issue in an email to the students. My goal for them is to learn just as I bet is the goal of your son's teacher. I try to do this by instituting various assignments. My assignments haven't been writing papers but they do involve writing and research. I checked the students knowledge of the subject I was teaching but I did assume that students at my level (high schoolers plus two advanced eighth graders) would know how to do searches, would know how to find articles, etc. I am finding that at least two of them either don't or didn't do the assignments for some other reasons. COntact your son's teacher and explain the situation. Maybe she can suggest something or you might find her uncooperative. Whatever it is, you need to figure out.

We know our children are gifted and we thought they would be. Because in our case, it wouldn't matter if it is genetics or the environment. They had two parents who were identified as gifted and they are our children. Did they show all the signs of the Ruff levels? No. My oldest had ear infection after ear infection and only learned to speak after he had ear tubes put in when he was 20 or 21 months old. Within a few months. he no longer was eligible for special services because he was advanced in his speaking ability. But I saw how he was when he played with others when he was younger. He would be playing WWII in the playground and getting all upset because the other kids didn't understand. He just didn't have problems understanding many things and was reading adult non fiction by the time he was eight. My next one had a vision problem. So she was reading books with a hard vocabulary like Peter Rabbit series but couldn't read easier books with smaller print. Turns out that she was seeing double and small print was too confusing. What are her signs of giftedness_ composing music at age five, singing in tune at 15 months, learning to play music instruments correctly on her own at young age. And then the fact that in groups with others, she does get things quicker. SHe has memory issues so it makes her giftedness somewhat less apparent but she has expert analytical ability and she works around her memory problems quite effectively. My last took a while to be interested in reading. Her problem is extreme perfectionism. She really didn't like to read when she couldn't do it effortlessly and well. She would read what she had to but not anything much more. Now she is 12 and has been reading voraciously for a few years. But her talents aren't in reading. She fixes things, invents things, figures out how things work. She also is very proficient in conceptual math work although she claims she hates math (she hates arithmetic since it is boring). She is doing LofF now and loves that.SHe likes to think mathematically.

My son was in a honors program at college and they had special seminars and trips. In his new college, he is taking an honors class and it is simply taught at a more indepth way. My dd took an honors psychology class and she used a different, more interesting and indepth book and they did papers instead of tests. The class size was small and they discussed the issues instead of having a large lecture class like the other intro to psych classes were. I am sure that different places have different ideas about what constitutes honors but fortunately for us, so far, it has all been good.

WQe have just started to use this. I will write more this afternoon but my daughter liked the DIVE program better than she liked the BJU language DVD \program..

Well being a mom of one boy and two girls, I have to say I want to find a similar program for my daughter in this area. Why- she is a girl who likes to fix things, invent things, figure out how things work, and she is very good in math. She is also very social. I have her in a robotics class this year and she and her friend are partnered as the only two girls in the class. In her Odyssey of the Mind group, she is the only one who really wants to work on the engineering part of the problem (all girl group). In our family, while I am a highly analytical person who is math orientated, it is my physicist husband that she is most like. I want her to find other girls like her rather than girls who giggle.

I haven't heard anything like this and it is crazy. We get vaccines so we will eventually get this. That said, the earliest they plan to have injectible vaccines is mid October and I don't know that we will get them first. (We can;t get flu mist vaccines because of my diseases and medications). People over 65 won't get the vaccines until maybe much later because they have not been getting this flu H1N1. It is still recommended that they get the regular flu vaccine because they do get that one more frequently. We will get both.

Here is another point of view- I go by statistics. The stats for students who start out at 2 year colleges finishing their Bachelor's degrees are not good. Will your student be in the minority that does-hopefully. The other intersting thing I learned this week is if your student gets accepted at a reach school and a school at their so=called level, have them go to the reach school. They are more likely to graduate. ALso note that in many states with the increasing amount of students and budgetary cuts, students need more than four years to graduate and that is without transferring. Count that in your costs too. Finally, the GI Bill is one option for paying for school if your child is interested in the military. It pays extremely well for college.

My dd is a very hard working student and does well on certain tests. But all three of the females in our family have medical issues that take up a lot of time. DD is not very limited by finances, area, or schools with her major since most schools have them. One way of limiting is who gives us a hassle. I am a disabled homeschooling mom who already has a ton of stuff on my shoulders including teaching two sections of one class, coaching, and being often a single parent due to my husband being in the military. DD already found two-three schools she likes that don't require anything else. I would like her to have as a starting point about 25 and then whittle down. I also have a philosophical opposition to some of the requirements since I have observed the education in schools in five states and areas and I am not impressed at all. Unless the school is asking the same requirements of the schools the kids applying attend, (and no, they are not familiar with many schools that kids applying to their schools attend, particularly if you are applying to a small school many states away from your area).

WHile my oldest did do his high school in the 4 year manner and it worked well for him, we abandon that with our younger girls who one did the 4 year cycle once as a logic stage and the other one is on her second rotation. WIth our second, medical issues called for a change and with our third, she likes textbooks and will be doing those instead.

I am trying to start a thread on colleges that have extra requirements on homeschoolers. My list so far: Emory requires 3 SAT IIs (One in math) and one outside recommendation.

Yes, and the trees are starting to change.

I don't know where the OP lives but in certain areas of the country, just about every dog in the shelter is a pit bull or pit mix or some other type of very aggressive dog. Definitely if you live in those areas, do not adopt from a shelter. Breed rescue groups are often a good place. I got my lab from a breed rescue group and I got my current mini poodle from another breed rescue. They often have these animals in foster care and can really tell you what they are like. Depending on where the OP is living, a reason that the breed rescue gets the pet may be often that it came from an elderly person's home who was no longer able to care for the pet or who died. Those pets are usually really great animals because they were loved and cared for. Strays and seizures are a much different proposition as are a lot of surrenders. All those animals are much more likely to have serious problems and with little ones, you don't want to take that risk especially with choosing a larger size dog. Because while a 15 pound dog can bite, a 60 pound can kill and you don't want to take any chances with your children. Also, do the investigation and checking out of places by yourself and not with the kids, if you can manage that. Shelters will either make your children really sad or make them fearful. Many of the dogs are aggressive and come right up to the fence and bark and growl. It isn't something you want any susceptible children to be witnessing/

My father died when I was 13 and my mom died early in my marriage (and we knew she was dying so we married 9 or 10 months early just so she could be there for my wedding). My in-laws were never much help. Now we only have my fil left and he is basically out of the picture with us since he chose a life that we can't deal with. ( He has two of his sons who are both older than my 45 yo husband living there for years without work, also living there are a various assortment of sundry people and my dh says he doesn't feel safe there and won't have us go there. We offered to set him up in better conditions, including coming to live with us if he wanted, and he wanted to take care of permanently juvenile late 40, and 50 something year olds). If we needed help here, I am sure my neighbors, my church and my homeschooling group would help.

List topics covered in each course, omitting ones that lead directly to another. So in an example from Arithmetic, your course may have had single digit addition, double digit addition and multiple digit addition. You would only need to list something like addition- through multiple digits or just multiple digit addition. On a separate question- which two colleges want descriptions since I probably want to cross those colleges out.

Are you trying to get them for yourself, for a state, or for a college? Did the college ask for a course description? Most don't want them and I wouldn't think they would on a class like Algebra 1 or Geometry unless they specifically ask.

Is she on proper doses of her medication? When was the last time the dosign was changes? My severely ADHD daughter does almost all her work on her own. THe one addition that helps is alarms. I have her put an alarm on for every fifteen minutes and check that she is actually doing what she is supposed to be doing. It normally works though we have had some interesting mix-ups.

My junior recently read The Great Gatsby and Beowulf. This week she is reading SIr Gawain and the Green Knight. For pleasure, she is reading the SUe Grafton mysteries and she is on D is for (I don't remember).

I had my daughter skip and do evens on one day and odds on another. She used Saxon 65, then Algebra 1/2. She didn't have problems and did very well in Algebra with the Jacobs book. Now if she was having problems with a concept, she did all of those problems and didn't skip any.

Get help with the depression and then turn all your priority to child one. You need to get her graduated and into college and that is coming up very, very soon. You didn't give the ages of the others but have them read if they can and do work on their own as much as they are able. You need to work on whatever documents you need for your daughter's college applications. I think sometimes people get overwhelmed because they choose overwhelming curriculums. I have no idea if that is the case with you but consider it and if that is so, choose something a lot simpler. Something where you assign pages to read, and problem sets to do and not ones where you need to be very hands on and constantly directing. There is no perfect way to homeschool and some program that might have been perfect without a move, a senior in high school, illnesses, and depression might be totally inappropriate with your circumstances. I totally agree with your decision to go on with co-op. When I was having great troubles with a Jobean year, the co-op was the breath of calmness and sanity for me. It really helped me and yes, I also was a new person to the area. Feel free to PM or email me for more support.

I only have three but they were spaced too far to do hardly anything together so here is what I did. Number one priority is always the oldest child, particularly when they are in high school. You need to get them out the door and into college (or wherever) and there is no do-over with them. Second priority was a child who needed to learn to read and do basic math. Once they know how to read, they can read and learn. Get those things done every day. Then you go on to others school, if any.