My boys always enjoyed the mentos and diet coke experiment :)

I usually shoot for 200 days over 40-42 weeks.

As of last week, we *are* moving. DH leaves tomorrow. The kids and I will follow when the house sells. Of course to sell the house, I have to have it on the market. To get the house ready for market, I need to clean, declutter, paint, etc. I'm hoping to have the house clean and on the market in two weeks. But, I have no idea how long it will take to sell.

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I appreciate all of the information. I will be visiting in a couple of weeks and hopefully will get a better idea of the different areas once I'm there.

Thanks for the info. Anybody else?

For those of you that live in the Chattanooga area, can you give me some info? DH will be working in the downtown area. Would it better to live in Georgia or Tennessee? What about homeschool requirements and College scholarships (Hope)? There is so much to think about and consider, I feel a little overwhelmed. :confused1:

7 Grade 2010 - 2011 Plans (twins): Bible: Apologia - Who is God?; Dig Deep: Proverbs Unit Study English: MCT, Christian Liberty Press Spelling 7 with Spelling City, Editor in Chief, Pentime cursive 7, IEW Literature: Progeny Press guides (haven't decided which ones yet) History/Geography: Notgrass America the Beautiful (If released in time... otherwise, I'll write my own focusing on the 20th century) Math: Chalkdust PreAlgebra; Charlotte Mason "Your Business Math"; Real Life Math Mysteries workbook Science: Apologia General Science (second half); Science Sleuths: Solving Mysteries Using Scientific Inquiry Logic: The Great Chocolate Caper; Revenge of the Logic Spiders; Clip Clue Puzzlers level B Latin: Lively Latin; Headventure Land (Games, Readers, Videos) French: L'Art de lire (French4Homeschool); Tin Bot French Reader Computer: KidCoder: Computer Programming Civics (1 sem.): SOS Civics 2010; You Decide! Applying the Bill of Rights to Real Cases Economics (1 sem.): Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Art: Mark Kistler's Draw Squad; Complete-A-Sketch 1-2-3; Various projects Music: Piano (DS1); Violin (DS2) - outside classes once a week Health: SOS Health Quest Schedule: Logic - 8:00 - 8:20 Bible - 8:20 - 8:40 Math - 8:45 - 9:30 English - 9:40 - 11:40 History / Science - 12:45 - 2:00 (alternating days) Latin / French - 2:00 - 2:30 (alternating days) Computer / Health - 2:30 - 3:00 (Comp. 4 days/wk; Health 1 day/week) Civics / Economics 3:00 - 3:30 Art gets worked in as time allows (at least once a week). The boys tend to finish up a least one subject early, and will pull out a drawing and work on it. Other art projects are assigned within other subjects (history, geography, science, etc.)

We got our disc about a month ago, and we are all LOVING it!

I would look into the Williamsburg Flex Pass. It is a 7 day multi-attraction pass for the area. Our family did this with kids about the same age as yours (just boys). The great thing about this is that all kids age 5 and under are free! So hubby and I paid for the adult passes and the kids got in everywhere for free. This included Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, Water Country USA and Bush Gardens. We generally did the historical sites in the morning and the water and amusement parks in the afternoons/evenings. We all had a great time, and it was budget friendly :)

History - STOW. I would only cover one book per year. But, to figure out where to start, I would plan out what topics I want to cover in history before high school and work backwards. Sometimes looking at the big picture makes it easier. Language Arts - Check out MCT Math - Two of my favorite supplements (for 8-12 year olds) are Charlotte Mason's Your Business Math Series (you run your own store) and Hands On Equations. Have fun and enjoy the journey!

I haven't used their American Lit course, but I did use the Introduction to Literature course with my oldest ds in 8th grade, and it went really well. He enjoyed the book selection and it seemed quite thorough. I feel it gave him a good introduction to literary analysis. He has since moved onto IEW's American Lit course (Excellence in Literature) and has enjoyed that as well. We will probably stick with IEW for British Lit as well, although I haven't made a final decision yet.

Webrangers is a program for kids that is run through the National Park Service. It contains over 50 games that helps them learn about our National Parks, Monuments and Historic Parks. It is just like the Junior Ranger program, but this one is all on-line. Kids can complete the activities and earn a badge. And... it's free! ;)

I bought Edu-Track. It is very easy to use and has a lot of cool features. :thumbup:

How about Noeo science Chemistry III?