I think it is a great idea. My father took each of his children on one international trip and one around-the-country college visit trip during our high school years. It was a great time for bonding. I spent my international trip visiting castles and my college trip entirely in Florida. Neither trip would have been of any interest to my siblings.

My kids are at 167 and 165. I can only get 138. :)

My dd 15 has all of her classes outsourced this year and will likely outsource all of her classes from here on out. I don't think I am concerned so much as sad for what will never be. I read on here what other kids are doing at home during the high school years and have to realize that my dd will never do those things, or at least will never do them at home - with me. I spent many years getting her to this stage and yet I will never get to enjoy the in-depth class discussions and experiments and projects that I read other students doing at home. But I also have to accept that this is really more a personal issue for me rather than a legitimate concern. I wanted to do those things with my daughter. But she wants to be in the outsourced classes. She is doing really well, she's happy and her future looks great. I no longer have any input in her day-to-day studies. I am relegated to making sure she eats right and gets enough rest. I am still occasionally her personal taxi service and often the sympathetic ear, but not her instructor in any way. I am sad that there are books she may never read because I didn't assign them to her, and deep discussions we may never have together, but I do not believe I am failing her. She has made different choices and it is more important to me that I support her as she grows into the person she wants to be, rather than the person I imagined her as she was a small child.

If I were (or you are) enjoying FIAR vol. 1, I would just stick with that and do FIAR volume 2 or 3. It's a good program for doing as much or as little as you feel like doing in any given week. I would add in some math, continue working on reading and find a handwriting workbook. Other than that, I would enjoy the outdoors as much as possible.

If I've pulled materials together for a class, it is going to be well over the hours needed for a credit. I like to be thorough. :) I write out the plans over the summer separating the work into 36 weeks (without dates.) I have in the past given a half credit for a class that we have completed past the 18 week mark, but did not have the time or desire to finish. But, I do not give credit based on hours worked - otherwise my kids would simply sit and stare at the ceiling for the required number of hours. Or there would be ongoing discussions about whether the full hour was spent in 'diligent work.' My kids are the type likely to drag their feet and wallow in the first unit all year long, if they can earn a credit doing so. At our house, for every class, work completed = credit earned.

I chose other, but maybe I should have said parent does it all. But, we don't keep any daily or weekly records. Most of our high school classes have outsourced grades. Any that I must supply the grade for, I just add up test scores at the end of the semester and divide by the number of tests/papers and put a grade in my online transcript. We don't live in a state that requires a log of study hours.

Just an FYI - Anywhere that we have lived, you can take a repair receipt to the water company and they will drop the 1-2 day water spike charges if due to issues such as broken water lines and sprinklers. You may want to call the water company and see if this is an option.

My dd is planning to graduate with only three science credits: Botany w/lab Biology w/lab Chemistry w/lab If she decides to apply to a college where I fear she will (for some currently unknown reason) be at a disadvantage with only 3 sciences, I may add her 8th grade Honors Physical Science credit to that specific transcript, as it is labeled a high school credit. At this time that doesn't appear to be helpful/necessary.

7:30 - for dd 15 and dd 13 9:00 - for dd 9 and ds 8

I like it. :D We are using HO Ancients 2 this year, but I bought it to go along with a couple of other things for my history-loving 4th grader. I've used it in the past with two who didn't really care for history and did have to tweak it some. Modern Level 2 was the most enjoyable to them. I like HO especially for the mapwork and writing practice. But, we've never been interested in project-based history. This year we are using it along with Connect the Thoughts and Memoria Press. Connect the Thoughts also uses Story of Mankind as its spine, but their focus is more about making personal connections with the history being studied. I like the interesting discussions that come from using CTT along with the connections my kids make when being asked to draw something rather than write about it, but that program is rather light and lacking in writing and geography. We are also using the Memoria Press book - The Ancient World (D. Mills) and study guide. This is for some cultural material: what the people were like in those times. We do all of the study guide work orally (except for the tests.) With this much material, I don't feel bad about skipping assignments here and there in any of the programs. Our only real project is a scrapbook we put together through the year. One page per week, done over the weekend. I get out the Cricut and paper. I pull out college humanities texts that I purchase for .50 or $1 and they cut them up along with calendar pictures. We sometimes get out paints as well. My only rule is that the pictures have to be relevant to the time period studied. They can decorate in any way or write anything they have learned (or not write anything.) It is just a way to sum up the week's learning. I'm thinking about doing one for science this year, too. But that might make it seem too much like school work and not so much fun weekend art. :)

There isn't any CLEP for World Geography. The closest CLEP would be the Social Sciences. However, none of the colleges we have looked into will accept that particular CLEP, though they will accept most others. I believe the closest AP would be Human Geography. The AP exam is only offered one time per year (usually in May) so you would need to be sure to register for the exam in December or January.

Around here only the first two semesters of college foreign language count a full year, Spanish I and Spanish II would be two high school credits. They are typically 5 college credits each. After that the classes are 3 credits each and only count as .5 credits on a high school transcript.

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I think you might be reading too much into it. It sounds to me like they want to be notified if you are changing the student's year of graduation (grade skipping.) If your state has high school graduation requirements for students it would require a meeting to make sure you can still meet those requirements. Hopefully, that is all they are addressing. :grouphug:

I could have worded that better. IF the mechanics class is 4 credits or more it would be considered a year long course and receive the .5 weighting, even if completed in one semester. But otherwise yes, an advanced calculus-based physics class will have the same weighting as an advanced algebra-based physics class. Really, it is no different than a student who only took Algebra and Geometry being compared to the student that also took Precalculus, Calculus and Statistics (assuming no APs.) They will both carry GPAs without any weighted classes, despite the one student taking several more difficult math classes.

For the Florida state scholarships all AP, IB and (academic) dual enrollment classes are weighted .5 per year course or .25 per semester course. I would do a new transcript, less chance of an error that way. Admissions might accidentally use the unweighted transcript.

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I'm sorry you have to stay on campus, that seems like a silly rule. We are still waiting on a FLVS class as well - Earth/Space science. We were assigned the other two classes over a week ago. I'm trying to decide whether or not it is worth my time to try and call them today.

Once we switched to several outside classes, my dd and I found it easier to simply provide her with a weekly list of everything that I required and let her work it out around her other classes. This semester I am only teaching her one subject so I just put her assignments up on our whiteboard. One (small) issue with outside classes is that the at-home classes immediately become a lesser priority. I always plan to be continuing the at-home classes into the summer.

Dd 15 - something in advertising Dd 13 - something in theater or film Dd 9 - gymnastics coach Ds 8 - builder (Houses, buildings and bridges are good, but absolutely no roads or driveways)

We just bought my dds 15 and 13 new laptops last week. (They are actually birthday/Christmas gifts this year, but we gave them early for school.) We bought one a Dell Inspiron and the other a Lenovo Ideapad. Both were on very good sales last week. Dd 15 is allowed to do her school work in her room. I know she can be trusted to stay focused on her schoolwork during school hours. Dd 13 must bring her laptop into the living or dining room during school time as she is still tempted to surf rather than work. They have both done online classes for several years and both have (now rather outdated) netbooks that they have used with no issues for the past couple of years. I've really enjoyed everyone having their own computers to work from. We haven't had any issues thus far.

We just switched from summer to fall this week, so back to evening lessons. Dd 9 will probably be competing new level 4, but maybe 5, the coaches won't decide until next month. I would love to ease out of gymnastics and am thinking about doing the bare minimum hours required to stay on team this year (9 hours per week.) The gym is pushing for 16 hours. Yuck! Dd's best event is beam, but she loves bars too. Her biggest challenge is floor. She has no musical rhythm and really struggles to keep her routine on beat with the music. She looks so graceful during her other events and then we get to floor and ..... :eek: :D

Generally, the first 30 lessons are review of the previous book. You could give him one exam per day until you come to new material (usually around test 5.)

At the beginning of the school year, I give my kids one of these two page spreads for each class. They are from the Donna Young website. I do not attach dates to it though. And I don't necessarily have something written in each day, but it does represent what I would like to see done each week. This way they can look over what they need to get done for the year. And each class is split into 36 weeks of instruction. Some classes will get done early (not usually) and several will go into the summer. But it helps me stay organized and helps my kids see where they are and where they should be at any given time. Occasionally things are not going as planned and I will rewrite a subject - but it is only a two-page plan and generally not connected to any other subject (though history and lit are usually together,) so not too time consuming or overwhelming to readjust.

There are two additional things that I am considering for my 2nd dd, as she may like to earn her AA in theater and we would run into some of the same problems. One is to CLEP some of the classes - Comp I, US History, Psychology, etc. so that she can fit in all of the needed classes for an AA. And the other is to take classes at both the university and the CC and transfer the university credits to the CC. I have already checked :blush: and both of these possibilities would be allowed here.