Yes, thank you. Much appreciated!!

No glorious weather here, but we had a glorious winter morning. Sunrise was at 8:23 this morning, so it was still dark during breakfast. We had breakfast with candleight and classical background music. And I could look out the window and watch big, fat snowflakes come down. I spent a chunk of my weekend revamping and reformatting OneNote so that DS would get a week's worth of work on Monday and try to manage his week. The hardest part for me is trying to decide exactly what we need to do for the week ahead of time. We jumped from Rod and Staff 6 to Rod and Staff 8, and I am glad that we did it. But it was a big jump and our pace has slowed. I had really hoped to finish the book this year, but that may not happen. We do most of it orally, and I have given it a hard slot so that we get to it every day (11:30). Fifteen or twenty minutes is enough if it is every day. Between the Rod and Staff grammar and Latin, I don't want to push too hard on Danish grammar. I will save intense Danish grammar study for 9th grade, and I just found the perfect grammar book. I am really excited about it :)

Awesome!!! I have the first two chapters of the free MIT book to read while DS swims tonight. I think I will read two or three calc books then decide what else I need to do.

I am looking for a calculus textbook that will dust out my cobwebs. Ideally searching for a book that is cheap and readily available. About me: Have an engineering degree and took through Calculus 3 + Differential Equations in college. Remember less than I care to admit. :huh: Just want to read it, not necessarily do all the problems. Therefore, it is OK if a solutions manual is not available. And it will probably not be the book that I choose for my student (who is currently using Foerster's Algebra 1). Thanks!

This news site for students has a cartoon once a week with discussion questions: http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/archive/editorial-cartoon-for-students/ It might be too American-centric though; I am not sure.

Yes, we have had a similar situation. We moved to overseas, and our oldest son did not. He was 19 at the time. The first year went OK - he was busy with his life and his friends. The second year he did live overseas with us, but it really was not a good fit for him so now he is back in the USA. We go back twice each year, and he has come over here many times. But now it is getting harder for him to come over here because he has his own young adult life to attend to. Being honest, I miss him terribly. And there have been hurdles to overcome. But we have a great relationship and he remains close to his family. He has, out of necessity, become very independent. That is not a bad thing.

College Boy left so this week is our first normal week of the year. It is also the last week of our semester. I waffle between making next semester somewhat of a trial run toward high school (meticulously counting hours and solidifying a grading scheme and all that stuff ) and savoring the last gasp of middle school.

My thoughts exactly.

My son is a sophomore and his last final was December 19 and the second semester began today, January 12. He still waiting to receive grades in two classes. His advisor told him that the grades should post tomorrow at the latest. This just seems ridiculous to me that he is still waiting on grades and a new semester is officially in session.

Talked with the student this morning, and he is fine with starting the Ancients again in 9th so that we can make a 2 year tour through World History for 9th and 10th. We will try the movie / documentary route to pick up gaps. It is somewhat less than ideal, but certainly not a disaster by any means. I don't know if he will take the AP World exam, but I can start with it as an aim. It is hard for me to imagine him ready for that, and then I remember that the end of 10th grade is still 2.5 years away. Plenty of cognitive leap time :)

Ok, so I am rethinking this. I know I need to talk it over with my son, but I don't like to do that until I have really thought things through. I would actually prefer to do two years of world history in the normal order. For all of the reasons that people normally do it that way. :tongue_smilie: In order to start world history at the beginning without skipping right over the 20th and 21st centuries, I think we could crash course the modern world by watching movies/ documentaries. We are big movie people, and I think I have about 30 weeks until 9th grade starts! An average of one movie/documentary per week would cover plenty of ground. He already knows quite a bit about World War II. Add in the fact that we are also big current events people with resident news junkies, and it suddenly seems doable to me. Lisa, to answer your question I don't have resources chosen yet.

Thanks so much for your replies. I think that he would be disappointed to return to the Ancients before we do Modern. But maybe not. I guess I should ask him :)

DS will be in 9th grade next year, and we plan to study Modern World History (20th and 21st centuries). 8th grade is/was 1400 -1900 and 7th was Ancient to 1400. For 10th, we would do Ancient History through Modern, and he would take the SAT Subject Test in World History at the end. Basically, World History spread over two years but with reverse chronology and an uneven split. I will point out that he plans to take Latin through to AP, so he will get some Ancient History each year anyway. I think that 11th will be United States History and 12th will be American Government / Economics. But what if he wanted to take AP World in 10th instead? Would that seem redundant since there is some overlap with the 9th grade material? Kids do it all the time with Science (Biology then AP Biology). But maybe History is looked upon differently (?).

Mine just left, too. I wimped out on going to the airport with him and DH. I blubber too much.

Yes. Because we do have other possibilities, I have no interest in homeschooling a child without the child's buy-in. The other possibilities involve major family upheaval (like splitting the family ), so it was a hefty decision. If he didn't want to homeschool for high school, choosing the alternative would have to be a family decision because of its impact on the rest of us. Luckily, homeschooling is what he wants to do and we were not faced with that. At least not yet...I am holding the door open as long as possible. Just because. edited

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Yep, it was crazy to me as well. That was last year. This year, he is off campus which is cheaper overall but still came with its own learning-curve of expenses.

Dorm fees. We got a ridiculous bill for the right to keep stuff in the dorm room over Christmas break. If your child is studying abroad, you might be shocked at the amount of money the host country requires you to provide to the student as part of the residency visa. I was.

Woodland Mist, I am confused about these calculator books. Help! On Oasis, I can see these ISBN #s for Algebra I. Is this what you bought and it covers through Trig? Calculator Book 9780201818819 Teacher 9780201818802 Student There is something different listed for Algebra II and Trig: 9780201818826 Student There is nothing for the teacher. Kolbe lists both a Student and Teacher Graphing Calculator Laboratory Manual (Algebra and Trig), but they don't give ISBN numbers.

Thanks. Where did you buy it? Are the answers in the book? I see one for Algebra 2 on Kolbe, but there is also a solution's manual to go with it. And they don't seem to carry it for Algebra 1.

I plan to give most of my self-ed time to Danish and Latin. With Danish, I feel like I am so close to a breakthrough in listening comprehension...but that it is just out of reach. So lots and lots of Danish movies and series for me. I have been hunting for something for Statistics that I will be able to turn over to DS at some point, and I just ordered Life of Fred Statistics. Fingers crossed. And I have a proof book to work through. Beyond that, I just hope to stay one step ahead of my student.

Goodness. I had banished myself from the Accelerated Forum (because DS is bright-but-not-so-accelerated) and look what I missed!!! Woodland Mist, can you tell me anything about the Calculator Manual for Foerster? I don't have that. I kinda sorta remember seeing it for sale somewhere but can't recall where. We just finished Chapter 5 of Foerster's Algebra, and I am still really happy with it as a spine.

My student was dragging this afternoon, but a sugar boost of hot chocolate with fresh whipped cream pulled him through. I got one of those fitness trackers (Garmin vivofit) for Christmas. When I got a red line from sitting too long, I made us get up and MOVE until it the red line was gone. Love it. We started a new Danish course today, and I found a Danish grammar workbook at the library that I am uber-excited about.

Count us in. And like the OP, we still have a college student home. DS and I are both eager to start again, but we both going to struggle with getting up in the morning this week. Once constraints are removed, our family turns into night-owls. We have two weeks left in our semester. Some odds and ends need to get wrapped up, and then I have other changes to try as part of a trial run toward high school.

:seeya: Tress! I have not "seen" you recently. loesje22000, thanks for finding Joan in Geneva's thread. Yes, that was useful. So... from what I read, I am guessing that an AP lands somewhere between B1 and B2. This matches my intuition - a foreigner has to pass an exam that approximates C1 in order to study in a Danish university. I didn't think that an AP is up to C1. One of the reasons that I was wondering is that the AP International Diploma allows a student to "submit a letter from an administrator at his or her school verifying the student’s mastery of a language not currently available within the AP suite of exams." Clearly, Danish is not within the AP suite. But how could a homeschooler verify such mastery? With a B1 exam? B2? Maybe I will write to the AP Board and see what response I get. And I still don't know what to call DS's Danish course next year. Maybe I will just call it Danish II just to show that he is not starting from zero.