:) --walk to/from gym for training session --school w dd: math, chem, APHG test review --daily things, including laundry --Monday-specific tasks --emails --contemplate lugging books to homeschool group's annual book sale tomorrow --plant tomatoes :party: --other gardening: water seedlings (it's going to be over 80F!), some weeding --return library books from dd's research paper (public, university) --dd doctor appointment 2:40

Today I will walk to and from the gym for my training session. I'll also do some gardening :)

Dd, dh, and I walked to and from the farmers' market this morning, about 5 miles roundtrip, with a lovely section through the hilly woods :)

So far: --made blueberry muffins for breakfast --helped dh with garden walls --walked to/from the farmers' market, first day of the season! --ate lunch from food trucks at the farmers' market --wrote grocery list Still to do: --quick grocery run --plan meals for week --plan week --one email --print some things --some more gardening --eat dinner on the deck tonight :D

I didn't spend any money last week outside of groceries and gas and a donation ;) to the library. We had lunch out today at the first farmers' market of the season. Food truck heaven! Dd actually walked there with us :) One of the new vendors is a family beef/pork/lamb/chicken farm. We bought some beef to try. We'll do that several times this season, and then we may splurge for a half cow! This week I will buy some books to feed my kindle. I am also going to DSW with my latest rewards money ($30, baby----five people buy shoes with my number) to find some casual non-sandal shoes, hopefully at the $30-35 pricepoint.

I think I'll just garden today :)

We're another Hydroflask family :) Dh and ds have hydration bladders for hiking, but we chose to buy 5 hydroflasks instead of more bladders because the bottles can be used more often. Like every day :lol:

I think I'll do a weekend list this time. Out of the house: --dd ballet 11-4 Saturday --all of us to a Derby party Saturday 4-? --must use Kohls cash Saturday --walk to first farmers' market of the year Sunday!!!!!! At home: --water seedlings --help dh assemble the last screen walls for the veggie garden --weed berry garden --feed berries as needed --continue to tackle invasives in our strip of woods --plan meals for week --grocery list --plan week --email school counselor about dd filling in AP paperwork --print both released Ap Human Geography exams (the open-access one and the secure one)

I'm not sure when dd's last final is---sometime in the 20s of the month. Ds graduates in four weeks and two hours!

Dd just has one this year--Human Geography--on the very last day. Next year will be another story :eek: :lol:

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May goals: • exercise for a minimum of 1240 active minutes (according to my FitBit Charge HR), 40 min average per day • increase the flexiblility of my left shoulder

Dd20 will (literally) cry when I tell her this. Thank you!

April was a good month for me. I hope May will be, as well! Gym this morning with dh. I rode the bike (upped my resistance level and average speed, yay me) while he did weights. My shoulder/bicep issue is frustrating me. I think I need to see a PT. I can't start for another two weeks, until dd is past her AP exam and her Arabic finals and English class is finished---just no time for that now. Mom-ninja, I could go for a pb cookie right about now :D

Just back from the gym with dh :) Ahead: --school w dd: chem, APHG practice test --daily things --Friday tasks --a few errands --gardening :) --continue working on Ap Psych syllabus for next year --dd late ballet, 6:30-8

Dd uses AoPS books in an unusual way. She has a bit of photographic memory and remembers explanations and answers on the same page as the problem she is looking at. She doesn't like being influenced that way. She likes me to check her answers for the in-section problems (the ones in the colored boxes) as she goes along. She does the end-of-section problems and chapter review/challenge problems on her own.

Whoa.

I haven't attended church on Mother's Day since the year after Mom died. It's still too hard, even after six years. (My parents attended the same church. I still "see" them sitting in the pew in front of our family.)

Ahead on this last day of April (!!!!): --school w dd: chem, APHG test review --daily things --Thursday-specific tasks --walk to/from gym for training session --love on my blueberries --remove more invasives from our strip of woods --dd ballet 5:30-7 --homemade pizza for dinner...which means I have to start the dough on time!

I didn't walk yesterday, just puttered around in the garden. I may have talked to the young trees ;) Today: walk to/from gym for training. I will need to put sunscreen on my arms and chest as it will be too warm for my hoodie today :D

I didn't schedule the books in any way. I just let dd move at her own pace, so books overlapped school years. A few times she worked on two books concurrently. She interrupted intro to algebra for geometry at chapter 12 or 13 (I'd need to look at the book to be certain.) Between sixth grade (that's when AoPS prealgebra was released) and now, nearing the end of ninth grade she covered Prealgebra (6) Intro to algebra (6,7, smidge of 8) Intro to counting and probability (7) Geometry (7, smidge of 8) Intermediate algebra (8, smidge of 9) Intro to number theory (8, smidge of 9) Precalculus (9---just finished yesterday!) Because dd's interests have changed from All The Math All The Time, we will not be using AoPS Calculus for next year. Just not enough time with her other classes, unfortunately. (We began homeschooling in fifth grade. That year we futzed around with math, using a variety of resources, ending with a school-y prealgebra text.)

Why is she not taking the SAT Math 2 test this year? The ideal time to take is immediately after finishing precalc. She could still register for the June 6 date :)

My sister, an afterschooler, had a syllabus sent back to her the one time she didn't note the curricular requirments :lol:

Oops, that's one thing I forgot to mention above! As part of my syllabus writing, I match released FRQs with the course outline. I'll place a list of the corresponding FRQs after each section (if there are any, that is). Some FRQs dd and I answer together (to model the form), some I assign as "homework", some she writes with a time limit, and some are used in unit tests and end-of-year review. I'm at this stage with the AP Environmental Science syllabus :)