Apologia science is what we use, a big reason is because of the audiobooks! It's funny, because I have a few of those suggestions in print, and didn't think they were in audiobook. Thank you for responding.

My 13 yo math lover, doesn't like to read books, but listens to audiobooks all the time. I have Mystery of history books, that I went through with my older kids, but I would prefer to let this kiddo listen to audiobooks to learn about history. All the books would have to be available through the library, (unless it's a curriculum) which a lot of Sonlight books are not. Any suggestions? I'm open to curriculum or list of books, I just don't have time to pull a ton of things together for this.

Thanks for the example. That is closely what I ended up doing.

Oh that's a great idea and way to handle it. I put his college classes on his high school transcript, because other wise he would have only maybe 4 classes that he took outside of dual credit classes.

My son will be graduating with his Associates degree in the spring, at the same time as high school. I'm working on his transcript to send to a 4 year college...last minute he decided to try and get accepted! He took English 1 at home. Then Comp 1 at the community college. Then he took a CLEP test that was transferred to his community college as AMER lit 2 and Brit lit 2 , I counted it as 2 credits of high school English, but I don't know how to put it on the transcript to look the best. One option is to just list the two college classes as two lit classes, similar to the college transcript. They have a section that says CLEP exams and then list the 2 classes under that. Another option I have thought about is listing the classes each with a note that they were credit give from CLEP exam. 3rd option is to list each class, then as a note at the bottom of the English section write that they are from CLEP credit. I don't want the admissions to think that he only has 3 credits of English. He has 9 hrs of college credit for English.

My oldest has a 2 week break before he starts his summer college classes. He still has a year of high school left. I want to quickly cover some personal finance things with him, but I need direction. We talk about money and finance things around him so he it isn't new to him. Is there a checklist for things the kids should know. I'm thinking along the lines of how to write a check, how to balance a checking account, how to pay bills, compound interest etc. Not really a curriculum but something that will catch the little things I will miss teaching, because I do it all the time; or the really big things because I haven't done them in 20 years. Thanks

My 15 yr old kiddo reads really slooooow. I've never seen the need to test her, we just work at her speed and she does just fine. But she is going to take a CLEP test that requires reading passages, and she can't finish the test in time. Any advice on getting her the accommodations for longer test times? THSC has a thing for members to make a homeschool IEP, I'm not a member but I will if that's what she needs. I wouldn't even know where to get her tested, outside of the public school system. TL/DR : how to get accomodations for CLEP test to extend test time.

Do you have a link to their German program? I must be looking at the wrong place, I couldn't find anything reasonably priced.

Can you tell me what didn't click for Homeschool Spanish Academy?

I'll look into it thanks

I've been researching Spanish for my kids, I have read here and other places that the OSU classes were great etc. But I looked and with fees and out of area charges it was going to be like $3k per class. Is that what some of you are paying for one class? Hopefully I'm missing something. Please show me the error in my ways (maybe a link?) Other Spanish curriculum suggestions would be helpful too! I have 2 high school kids and a middle schooler who will be next in line, with zero Spanish experience but 2 years Memorial Press Latin. Edit: Our local community college is $100 per credit hour.

No worries, I'm learning from your questions! I'm glad you asked.

Lots of options and ideas. I knew it wasn't as cut and dry as it looked.

I agree! We have covered lots of things along these lines in the elementary grades, but not a true biology class. I'm going to look into several other suggested resources and see if I can find one that suits him better. Thanks for the responses

Thank you for the links. I'll look through them with my boy and see what he thinks about it.

This is really my biggest question. We are in Texas and most of the colleges require chem and biology. Would biochemistry count as biology? Or is he just stuck following the herd?

My 15 yo is doing great in Chemistry. He skipped biology because he really doesn't want to do it. He loves animals very much and can't handle the dissections. Generally he complains but does the classes I request him to do, so his next science is Bio, and he is really putting on the breaks. Any other science that colleges accept in place of biology? We have no idea what he wants to do for his future, so we are aiming for college. He can take bio for non major at the community college, or Apologia Bio from the best science teacher at co-op. I would rather he have another choice. Thanks

I don't think you like Jacob's at all. 😂 Thanks for all the links and the confirmation that Jacob's really is a good choice. I was worried that it was subpar against the 3rd edition.

Hello! I always make my curriculum choices from the suggestions posted here, usually from reading other peoples posts. Thanks for so much advice, given to others and myself! My 15 yo boy is finishing up Foerster Alg 1, he has used Math Without Boarders videos when he needs help but not daily. He has grumped and complained the whole way through but has done wonderfully in the course. My DD 13yo is half way through Jacob's Alg 1 for pre algebra, and will switch over to Forester when her brother finishes with the text. So we are on to Geometry. I have Jacob's Geometry, 2nd edition. It was given to me with the teachers manual. I was looking at using Math Without Boarders instead because of the videos,( and the price is affordable). The method used to teach the MWB seems pretty interesting to me as well, I think it is somewhat similar to AOPS, which I have a 3rd kid using Beast, and the two older have used AOPS PreAlg, but neither really did well with it. I already have Foerester's Alg2 and Trig book for after Geometry. I remember loving geometry in school, but don't really remember much about it. So my teaching ability will be based on what YouTube, Khan or the teachers manual has to provide. I don't mind figuring it out either, I enjoy it when I have the time. Any suggestions or reasons I should pick one or the other? Any other suggestions? We don't have reliable internet so no live classes or classes that I can't use with the next two kids. Thank you for reading my questions!

That is great. I do wish we hadn't missed the consumer math part of CLE, but we cover most of that in daily life. I make my kids do almost all the problems in CLE younger grades...they hated it but I think they needed it.

I'll have to check out the Holling books. Those lists are what I'm looking for. I knew someone had done it, but for some reason I couldn't find it. Thank you

I think I'm not using the correct search terms, I'm sure one of you brilliant mom's has a list of good books to read aloud that go along with geography. We are reading Silver Skates, it is very lovingly describing the Netherlands. As we read it we are searching for more information on the county, people, culture etc. I'm looking for a list to tie to our geography study that I'm currently working on. My kids are 9, 12, 14. If you don't have a list but instead a good book recommendation please share! Thank you

Here is yet another update. My son did well through the first half of Saxon 7/8 then started to struggle, so he had to do the whole lesson. It was miserable for both of us. He finished understanding his math but hated every minute of it. He is now doing Forresters Alg 1 with the DVD from Math w/o Boarders. He is doing amazing, the DVDs are exactly what he needed. He is really understanding and able to use what he is learning. My 12yo daughter is in ch 4 of AOPS pre A, after CLE 600. She is doing great (minus terribly hard ch 3 that she survived through)

Just as a follow up. We tried AOPS pre-A. But it caused lots of tears and struggling. So we tried Jacobs next. It was ok, but just not enough teaching for DS. So now we are using Saxon 7/8. My ds is taking a test then going over the chapters that he misses problems in, using it as a review instead of new material. This has been the best thing to show me what he really missed from CLE. He made 100s or high 90s on all the CLE test but doesn't understand lcd or subtracting fractions. So he is getting a great quick review. When he misses something we go over it from Saxon, Khan, and AOPS if needed.

This is what I'm leaning towards doing. I wish I would have been sure of it before now, I could have accelerated through the last part of 600 so he could move on. There are several pages of bar graph drawings and stuff he could have skipped. We only do the new stuff several times in each book because it is motivating for the kids some how. I also have a rule that if they make above a 90 on the quiz and test then they can skip every other problem, except the kinds of problems they missed on the test. That makes math go faster, and they are motivated to do actually learn how to do it well. We also don't do the #10 book, in each grade level, since it is all covered in the first book of the next level. I think I will order the two sets and get it plotted out like you suggest so that I will have small goals set out for him to finish up at.