UCF - University of Central Florida in Orlando has the College of Education and Human Performance which offers two tracks in the Sport and Exercise Science Program. They have a Coaching track and they have the Human Performance track. Both tracks have required and elective Kinesiology courses. The college ranked number six in the nation for exercise science. This is their website. Highly recommended. http://education.ucf.edu/sportexscience/

I sent you a pm. 😊

History of Airpower with Lt. Doremus is excellent!

Thanks Cave Canem! We are looking at doing fall semester courses through HES. Also looking at their expository writing classes. Have your students taken other classes with Harvard? Do you suggest taking only one class at a time or do you think taking two classes a semester too much of a workload for a high school senior?

Thought I'd give you a bump, I would like to know the answer to this too. We have been looking at HES lately. Have you taken other classes there? Thoughts?

Care to share the tutors contact info? Pretty please? My son was enrolled in Russian 2 for this fall at Landry, until they cancelled it bc they couldn't find a replacement teacher for it. Now I am scrambling trying to find other options. 😟

Not to get off totally off topic but....can I ask you about the Japanese Level exams? I really don't fully understand how the levels work or when these are useful for? Sorry for my ignorance but I was just wondering and I thought you might know since you seem to have advanced study in Japanese. Thanks! ðŸ˜

UPDATE Ok, so I just received an email from Landry about the new Japanese teacher. It seems that she has backed out and will not teach the classes after all. Landry will make a final decision by this Wednesday on what to do. I feel really bad for Landry, I can tell they are having a hard time finding a Japanese teacher who is also a Christian ( per their requirement). Actually, I think that considering that only 0.09% of native Japanese are Christian ( including all Catholic and Protestant denominations) it is going to be a tall order. It is a shame that they won't consider a nonchristian teacher in this case.

For Landry's class they used the Beginning Japanese series from Tuttle. We liked the book and the teacher was very thorough. Unfortunately, because of family issues she will not be returning. So we are left in the same boat as Emzhengjiu, in fact, I think our kids are I the same class! Emzhengjiu, I haven't looked at Potters japanese yet, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Otherwise, I currently know a Japanese lady that can tutor the kids....May have to go that route if all else fails.

Maybe look at Landry academy? I see that they are offering semester long courses on Cold War 1 and 2, History of Airpower, History of Communism Russia and China, Civil War, WW 2. , etc. The courses are listed under Geography, specialty courses. We really enjoyed the classes at Landry the past couple of years, and this years too. http://landryacademy.com/classes.html#History_/_Geography

Thank you all very much, I really appreciate all the input. It has given me more to think about and consider. Such a tough thing to pick curricula for your student...keeping it interesting and engaging, but also academically solid...especially when the subject is not ( and never has been) appealing to the teacher. :) Thanks again!

Ok so this is what I have found to compare. Here is the Kinetics Physics for Engineers TOC: http://www.kineticbooks.com/products/textbook/Physics%20for%20Scientists%20and%20Engineers/index.html And here is the TOC for Saxon Physics: http://www.exodusbooks.com/Samples/SAX/SaxPTOC.pdf They each look really different, but maybe just the order that topics are introduced? What you you guys think? WWYPick?

You may be right about that, I wasn't completely certain as I only have second hand knowledge and have never worked though any of there problem sets. Someone at some point reported to me that it was, but that could be erroneous.

Yes, I checked out Kolbe, but they use the Priniciples Physics version, not the version for "Scientists and Engingeers".... And I kinda wanted this version. :(

Ok, I am all ears. I need to pick a physics book and I have narrowed it down to these two. I need to have something self teaching with a solution manual for a student interested in possibly engineering or architecture. I love the graphics of Kinetics physics, the coverage in their table of contents, and that it is calculus based. My gripe is that I can't get the Kinetics people to sell me a solution manual, which could be a deal breaker if my kid gets stuck because I will not be much help. With Saxon Physics, I like that Dive will have lectures to all the lessons and a solution manual included. I think it teaches the calculus that is necessary to solve the problems. Not sure of the coverage of topics is as extensive as compared to Saxon. What to do? Help Please!

Countrygirl, Frogmom5, and all, You are very welcome! I have always found this forum helpful to me and it nice to be able to share information that may be helpful to others as well. Happy homeschooling! :) Lavender

Ok, so far as I can see, Mr. Murray offers 3 courses. The first drafting course is a pre-req for either of the other two more advanced classes. We signed up for this initial drafting course. This course has 18 modules to complete. Ds is working on module 1 right now, and it has 3 lessons in it. Ds does a lesson, turns it in, Mr. Murray corrects it, and ds must apply corrections to it before ds is allowed to continue onto the next lesson. I like this because ds will have to correct his mistakes as he goes along before tackling the more complicated stuff later on. So far, the first module has not taken very long do to, but it is still early on. The assignment is downloaded off Schoology, as is a free version of Autocad, which you login into. So I guess you would need at least decent internet? That is about the limit of my technical knowledge. We haven't had any issues though. Personally, we are doing 2 lessons per week. I figure this class should take us about a year to finish, which is fine with us. For ds, slow and steady works best. HTH Lavender

Thought I would share our latest discovery. We came across a vendor offering homeschool drafting and design courses at the FPEA convention last week. Dh had actually been talking about taking drafting class when he was in high school and how he thought our ds would enjoy learning drafting. Well, we looked at the booth called Murray's Technical Education, and it really looked interesting. Mr. Murray and his son were there at the booth answering questions and showing the drafting curriculum. Mr. Murray is an instructor at one of the neighboring county technical colleges, and offers his curriculum online as self paced courses that he personally grades and conferences with students via Skype if they need help. Long story short, we signed up our ds and he started his first assignment this week. Ds is really excited to learn how to draw blueprints, floorplans, 3D designs, etc. So far so good. In case anyone has an interested dc, here is MTE's website. http://www.homeschoolingus.com/450-2/ I'll post an update in a few weeks time.

I think I saw Hindi being offered as a new live online class at Landry academy. We have been doing their Russian language class with them for the past two years and dd really enjoys the class and the teacher. Maybe check Landty out.

Ds took the Logo to Lego class and he really enjoyed it. Definately highly recommended. Haven't taken any of the others you listed.

Interesting article. Kind of makes you wonder if we are overselling the college idea to our kids, particularly for majors that are not STEM in nature....not sure there is must of a return on investment. http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-has-alarming-level-of-pride-in-institution-tha,30853/ What does the hive think?

UCF is a large school with several campuses. DH is a professor there at the main campus. As far as we have seen, UCF is homeschooler friendly, especially since Orlando and the surounding areas have a large number of homeschoolers. Our dc are not college aged yet, but we plan on them going there for college. Welcome to Orlando and UCF! :) Lavender

:iagree::iagree: I would not sell my house right now, especially since the economy is bad and DC hasn't even been admitted yet. I think a small rental is the way to go in order to get residency. BTW, No you are Not crazy for wanting what you feel is best for your child. ;)

We have a Mac and we didn't have any problem with it. Definitely call customer support at kinetics books, they have been very helpful to me in the past, and they do their best to get back with you quickly if they can't resolve the issue on the spot. Hope that helps :001_smile:

My dd will be doing Calculus 1 next fall as a sophomore. What math should we do after this? She is considering going into the computer sciences in college, so I'd like to get her as far in math as possible before she graduates. Also, I would definitely need something well supported, either DVD or online, and complete solutions manual, so as not to make my like uber complicated. :lol: Any help is much appreciated.