My oldest daughter is just finishing her 3rd year of college, also pursuing an English degree. She was just like your dd. Consumer Math would be fine. Your dd will take either a basic math like Math for Liberal Arts or College Algebra in college. Both will have a ton of review of basic math for her. She will not need Statistics. Consumer Math will be more beneficial to her as an adult anyway.

Thanks Lori, She did Apologia Physical Science in 8th grade for high school credit, so she will have 1.0 Physical, 1.0 Biology, .5 Chemistry, 1.0 A/P, so she would still have 3.5 for high school credits, so she'd be ok? Health/Nutrition is a College DE elective, you are correct. She may take Environmental biology or an advanced A/P as DE depending on course availability. Older kids took the Health/Nutrition. For this year, she will also have elective credits of Foreign Language (we are covering 2 credits over the 4 years to meet the college admission requirements. We just do it 2x a week so a slower pace). Yes PE .5, Art .5, and music theory .5. World Geography is a full credit, World Religions is a .5. So I think credit wise we are ok? I just didn't know what to do with the Chemistry. You are right, I think she is struggling mentally.

My sophomore has had a rough year. I need help knowing when enough is enough to call it a year. She is college bound, probably in a biology field or trade field. She has always been an A/B student. She had a slow start this fall as material was challenging, and we had to back up and take another run at some things. She is a bit of a slow reader, though no reading deficiencies. She just gets easily distracted and may have to reread. I am the same way. In January she had to have surgery from a sports injury. The recovery was ok, but meds caused her to break out in hives, and the meds to counteract those made her extremely tired and concentration difficult. Her physical therapy took 2 hours of time 2x a week. We could hardly get any school done that month. Just as we got rolling again, corona closed the college my older 2 attended, dh had to work from home, and our house turned upside down trying to assimilate everyone here. We will be finishing her World Geography, writing and literature on time in the next couple of weeks. Math (Alg 2) will go into the summer, but I know she needs to complete that. She completed Logic and almost done with World Religions. My real struggle is CHEMISTRY. She is doing the Bearean Builders Chemistry, and is only halfway through. The reading, comprehension questions, videos, experiments, test prep all takes FOREVER. I don't know if we could have gotten it done without the distractions. I am to the point I just want grant her the grade she has earned thus far, have her to watch the videos and read the textbook for content and do whatever experiments she is excited about. (So many have thus far been ones she either watched older siblings do, or can pretty accurately guess outcomes.) and forget the questioning and testing. Is this OK? She will be taking Anatomy/Physiology next year and Health/Nutrition her last year, so no further Chemistry needed. We are just about fried from school and the upheaval here. How do you determine in any subject when enough is enough? Thanks

I wanted to add a couple of things to this thread about things to put in the boxes. While we were at the distribution center sorting through the boxes, some of the missionaries who travel to the the areas and distribute the boxes worked on our line and told us some interesting stories. One of the favorite things that is useful and treasured in the boxes are bags! Those string bags or even the reusuable grocery bags. They are very valuable and benefit the families who have to travel a distance to gather things. The other thing a missionary told us was for the boys 10-14 age, a hammer and nails is a top blessing. A hammer gives a boy an occupation. She told us that a boy of age 12 got a hammer in his box, and he was the only person in his village with such a thing. A man in the next village had one and was very "rich" because he could build things and be hired to work. The boy was able to be employed by people in his village to basically pound nails or pegs with his hammer and it changed his family's economic situation. Amazing! So now we always pack a boy 10-14 box with tools along with some fun stuff.

Don't be discouraged. Those are just to put into boxes that are not well filled. When my family went and worked at a distribution center, we had two huge boxes of shoe boxes that had been filled by a church women's group, but they were all the same and very lacking. One crocheted washcloth, one bar of soap, three pieces of notebook paper, 1 pencil (unsharpened even), and a bag with 5 butterscotch candies. No toys, nothing fun. We literally had 40 boxes just like this. :-( We had to use everything in our "filler bins" and the bins of other tables to stock those boxes. I know this women's group thought they were doing something good, but compared to the very fun and filled boxes other kids would be getting during the distribution it made me sad.

We put (IP) after the course that was currently in progress with a notation at the bottom as to what IP stands for. We don't include future non-started classes. For graduation I put Anticipated May 2016 and for credits I put Anticipated credits earned. That was accepted just fine everywhere I sent it. If you don't include IP courses, it can look like a weaker transcript.

My son did well with the Landry Academy Chemistry. If you ask around, you should be able to find someone selling semester credits for less then current prices.

I agree to do the transcript by subject, not year. I do ours by subject because we do some high school level work in grade 8 and I don't want to have to explain that. A lot of homeschoolers in our area do that, and no one at the colleges blink.

Yes. Just standard chemistry. I just don't know if what she's already done is enough and if taking a Landry chemistry is overkill? I don't want to do Advanced. I would choose a different science course. She's done physical science, the above chemistry, and Landry biology. She will be in 11th grade.

XPosted to General Board - Two things - I am on the fence about chemistry for my daughter who may pursue a dental assistant type path and may need more chemistry in college. (She took Chemistry via Chemistry 101 DVDs, The Elements, and Carbon Chemistry and a Landry Chemistry Intensive) If she did that, does she need more to continue into chemistry in college or has she had enough for high school? And if so, she would take chemistry online with Landry Academy. She is currently taking biology and a literature class with them, so the format isn't an issue. My son took several science classes through Landry, and I know the teachers have different styles and are better suited for some students. My son and my daughter have both now taken biology through Landry but had different teachers and I can see differences. Not bad, both really liked their courses and teachers, but I know chemistry is challenging. We are familiar with one teacher and have no complaints, but I see there are others. I wondered if anyone had taken chemistry on Landry and could recommend a teacher?

Xposted to high school board too - Two things - I am on the fence about chemistry for my daughter who may pursue a dental assistant type path and may need more chemistry in college. (She took Chemistry via Chemistry 101 DVDs, The Elements, and Carbon Chemistry and a Landry Chemistry Intensive - is that enough for chemistry in high school or does she need more? And if so, she would take the basic chemistry online with Landry Academy. She is currently taking biology and a literature class with them, so the format isn't an issue. My son took several science classes through Landry, and I know the teachers have different styles and are better suited for some students. My son and my daughter have both now taken biology through Landry but had different teachers and I can see differences. Not bad, both really liked their courses and teachers, but I know chemistry is challenging. We are familiar with one teacher and have no complaints, but I see there are others. I wondered if anyone had taken chemistry on Landry and could recommend a teacher?

My daughter loves the Tea Leaf and Sweet Cream fragrances. They don't make Tea Leaf anymore, which she is now out of. I want to give her a new fragrance for Christmas, but because I can't handle floral or spicy fragrances, I need to be careful or I get terrible headaches if she's near me. I see Amazing Grace is a new fragrance. Is that at all similar to Sweet Cream or Tea Leaf and worth trying? Or is it heavy floral? Thanks.

We have done all of our science through Landry. They were great. Mrs. Stokes is wonderful for biology, but I was late getting my dd registered in her class so I am not having to try out a different biology teacher, but I have high hopes. My son has had good experiences with Chemistry and Physics classes.

We've taken several. Loved them. Even the tough ones my kids have walked away glad they did them.

Is it Mr. Walsman? Have you done a class with him already? We did Physics with him and my son enjoyed the class very much, but it was rigorous. He was certainly challenged beyond what I could have gotten out of him. Mr. Walsman expects a lot, but not more than you can meet. The lab reports work will help him prepare for college labs. I don't know anything about the Advanced Physics. We are moving on to community college for more science for dual credit.