We decided to just go with the heavy load. Six core courses and 2 credits of electives (4 half credit classes, two in the fall and two in the spring.) We are using Kolbe for Biology. As for extracurriculars - jr. varsity volleyball in the fall and volunteer work in the winter and spring, so quite light. No need for a personal response. :D Though it did make me laugh that you were trying to respond to each person due to the general board discussions. :)

Cleaned the whole house. :D We are moving in four weeks and had a house showing at 10:00 am. I dragged all the kids out of bed at 7am (after keeping them up until 11 last night cleaning) so we could mop all the floors, clean all the bathrooms, make all the beds and tidy the kitchen. Now that they are gone we are happy that we shouldn't have to clean much this weekend and can sleep in a bit on Saturday.

That is a shame. It must be difficult to be a bus driver in places where the kids cannot be banned. I was suspended from the bus for a week in the second grade for 'excessive talking' (to the people in the seats either in front of or behind me) and standing before the bus had come to a complete halt (at my own stop.) I don't actually have any memory of this, but my mother was so mad she has saved the suspension paper and still has it. I'm certain my father was not paid to drive me to school before work. The bus was always a calm (and quiet :D) place to be. In kindergarten my dd took the bus in the afternoons from school to karate. Two older boys got in a fight and the driver simply turned around and took all of the kids back to the school. We had to come pick our kids up. The boys received lifetime bans from the bus.

I would do OM Civics and Physical, especially in an election year. And OM has a high school World Geography course you could do the following year that is pretty good, if you/she were still interested in going that route.

7th grade this fall: Lingua Mater 7 (Hillside Education) SYR English 3 (Galore Park) The Creative Writer (Peace Hill Press) Creative Writing II / Creative Writing III (Connect the Thoughts) Poetry study (Perinne's Literature - Structure, Sound and Sense)

Kolbe offers A&P (scroll to the bottom of the link)

My homeschool motto - To those whom much is given, much is expected. -John F. Kennedy (originally scripture) Things I say most to my kids (never in a snarky tone, only seriously or in fun) - Life isn't fair. Make it a habit.

Sure, just pm me your email address. I've never uploaded anything to google docs, but email I can do. :)

We aren't doing any more than that for 3rd grade. MCT Grammar Island/ Practice Island Galore Park Junior English 2 Pentime handwriting Books 3 & 4 Kolbe Elementary Literature

I don't know how to share a file here. I think I would have to save it as something other than an excel document? I love excel too. :D

I use Excel to schedule the whole year. I have each child's schedule separated by month and then by week. One 'printed page' has all of one student's assignments for a month. I just leave it on the computer so that I can look at it easily and make changes as needed. But I do print off the monthly schedule for a child if requested.

We practiced first with M&Ms.

According to the ACT website: Multiple-choice scores from this test date will be first posted online beginning June 25 through August 3, 2012. If your scores are not available on the first date listed above, plan to check back weekly up through the last date listed. Scores are processed and added each week, usually each Wednesday and Friday. Normally, all scores are reported by 8 weeks after the test date. There is no option for speeding the processing of scores.

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As renters ourselves, we also make direct payments into the landlord's bank account. That way nothing ever gets lost and nothing is ever late.

I think it looks good and plan to use it. But I really can't help you much with what to eliminate (if anything.) I'm not using any of those programs. I would think you could eliminate FLL 1. I would hesitate to say WWE 1 if you are planning to use the higher levels. From what I've heard WWE is a program where you begin at the beginning and work through at the student's pace. I've never even seen WWW, but isn't that another writing program? If it is something you could jump into at any level then I would think you could eliminate that for first grade as well. For first grade language arts we are using: Oak Meadow 1 Pentime handwriting book 1B (possibly) Lightning Literature 1 Read alouds

I'm using the Florida state system (University of Florida to be exact) as that is the system my kids will be using. In Spanish a CLEP 50 will give you 3 credits of Spanish and a 63 will give you 6 credits. For AP testing a 3 will give you 3 credits and a 4 will give you 6 credits.

Our favorite is Study is Hard Work.

I think it is fine for validation. If I were to compare the two scores: AP 3 = CLEP 50

For us, the third option would be different from child to child. I voted math and English since those are the only two that are the same for all four children. ETA: Third options: dd14 - Latin dd12 - music dd8 - sports ds7 - history

On school days, dd 14 is in bed between 10:30 and 11:30 and up at 6:15. Dd 12 has the same bedtime, but she doesn't get up until 7:15.

Connect the Thoughts KISS grammar Classical Liberal Arts Academy online classes literature downloaded onto a Kindle That would cover all subjects and I would be very pleased with the education my child would receive in grades 1-6.

I have heard that Hake Grammar 4 will be available for fall. I'm not sure about 5 but I would think Hake 4 would be fine.

Four that my dd will be reading this year: Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond -1999 Collapse - Jared Diamond - 2005 Material World - Peter Menzel - 1995 Hungry Planet - Peter Menzel - 2007

We are not doing any grammar studies in high school. Our emphasis is on literature and composition.