I just list both weighted and unweighted GPA on the transcript.

Dd - homeschooled + dual enrollment Approximately six hours - but that includes eating and chores 30 min - breakfast/before school 1 hour - midmorning break 1.5 hours - lunch break 4 hours between end of school and bedtime, although usually at least 1 hour is dedicated to school readings

Wheelock's Latin is secular and very good. There are also a lot of online helps for the book.

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Yes. You have to reregister every time you move out of county.

Did you check with your librarian? Our libraries run a free class for elementary students about how to use the library. I think it is once a month or so and usually runs about an hour.

I would drop it (or audit it if you can, here we cannot.) I would double check your dual enrollment policies; the colleges in this county drop any DE student who goes below a 2.0 at the CC/university and there is very little chance of being reinstated to the dual enrollment program.

In most of the areas I've lived in FL the poorest familes are without any electricity. So even with WIC and food stamps there is no refrigerator or stove. The only cooked meals or dairy products tend to come from the schools or soup kitchens. And we have lots of "tent cities." Most of these are illegal seasonal workers that don't dare ask for any help, but even the legal workers or homeless families in tent cities have no address and no access to anything like food stamps.

I think there were only about 5 issues printed. :) You might get $10 a piece for them to the right buyer, if the CDs are still good.

Yes I do. However, that is the standard in our family, and I have three daughters. :D

Poll to follow. If your children trick-or-treat in the traditional door-to-door fashion - when do your kids STOP trick-or-treating? My dd is 14 and in 9th grade. She is not sure she is ready to stop yet. She enjoys the entire evening - getting dressed, running around with her younger siblings, etc. However, she is 5'9" and looks much older - even in a costume. :D She doesn't feel staying home to hand out candy or walking with dh and I through the neighborhood while her siblings trick-or-treat hold the same appeal. :tongue_smilie:

We have done the first two weeks. We are taking a break now, while I decide how best to make this program work for us. My son is an older first grader, so the biggest problem was that he found the first two books to be too "babyish" and the same with the student grammar pages. But I really like the composition and lit analysis portions (and wouldn't mind the grammar portions either if my ds didn't roll his eyes and sigh every time he looks at the page.) So I think we will keep the teacher's guide and response book, but skip the grammar pages, alphabet listings, etc. for now. Another issue is that we have already read nearly every book used this year so he already has an opinion on most of them. If he likes the book, the week will be fine, but I don't know that it is worth it (in first grade) to force us both through a week with a book he already knows he does not like. :confused: My ds resists school in general and definitely did better with a curriculum with exact writing assignments provided rather than me reading a book with him and suggesting we do a narration (or any type of writing or even oral analysis.)

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Hake Grammar and Writing has a lot of grammar repetition and includes a writing program.

$0 X-rays are only free once every two years, so that is when we get them.

We always use page protectors because I can't stand to have pages start to tear out or bleed onto one another, etc. The binders generally won't close until the child puts all the pages to one side. However, the page protectors tend to sag below the cover because of their weight (very annoying) and the kids sometimes wrinkle their work putting it in the pages, so not a perfect solution. :D

My dd would not have done well. She would need more white space on her test and would benefit greatly from having the test read to her as there was a lot of vocabulary in those questions. Though I doubt she would have remembered many of those facts anyway - even after 10 hours. :001_smile: She probably would have done best on the short answers.

OK, I am making an administrative decision and she IS taking the PSAT (and subsequent SAT if necessary.) :D She is a box-checker and wanted to be done with standardized testing, but she certainly will not want to come up with the extra $47.00 per credit hour that we aren't going to pay if she isn't going to at least try and get her tuition covered. She can simply add two more boxes to her checklist. She won't be too happy about it, but at least she doesn't have it in her to do any less than her best when the actual test comes around. :tongue_smilie:

You have to check with the schools around you. Each is different. Around us, the university will accept any student 9th grade or above (with test scores.) The CC requires the student to be in 11th grade and at least 16 years old (again with test scores.)

Thanks for all the information! It confirms what I was thinking. Since dd plans to use a Bright Futures scholarship, I'm sure she will skip the PSAT.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I went over all of them with dd and she decided to try Chalkdust. We have received PreAlgebra already (and I just purchased the Chalkdust Basic Math program as well.) We spent some time looking through the entire text and listening to a few of the lectures and believe that this may be just what we need. I'm thinking about purchasing Algebra I and II as well for my eldest dd to work through. I still feel that she has gaps in her understanding of Algebra, despite decent test scores.

Our family really likes FLVS, but through trial-and-error we have found that 3 is the maximum number of FLVS classes our kids can successfully complete at one time. Otherwise, it is not just too much computer time but also too much scheduling time: monthly calls, discussion-based assessments, collaborative projects, oral reviews, student off-pace phone calls, etc, etc. :) It does become overwhelming and never-ending for the student. What classes are your high schoolers taking? It would be easier to suggest alternative curriculum if the actual subjects you are needing are known.

We were planning to skip the PSAT, but I would like to verify something first. Are all corporate and college-sponsored scholarships for undergraduate study only? Or can being a NMS earn a student a scholarship for graduate work at some universities? Everything I've read so far has clearly stated the money is for undergraduate work. There seem to be quite a few NM scholar recipients on this board. Has it helped anyone with graduate studies?

Jenny, Here's the list I used to verify that Latin would be acceptable to most FL state schools. It is a list of languages that will be accepted as foreign language credit towards a Bright Futures scholarship.

That depends on your child's future plans. :D At our house the goal is a 29.