It is the "other one" :) My husband and I are not native Hoosiers. We both grew up in IL and met when we were Fighting Illini. So it pains us to think of our children becoming Boilermakers someday lol ... but like you said OOS is ridiculously expensive, and when Purdue is right in your backyard ... Anyway, thanks for the info!

Oldest DS is a sophomore right now, so I know it's not exactly "crunch time" yet ... but I feel like I can see it from here. :laugh: We have a local Big 10 U that it's at least fairly likely he and the rest of the kids might end up at, and I'd like to contact them to get some general info because from what I've gathered from reading different threads it really does vary with the individual college. But I barely even know where to start with all my questions, and I'd like to speak at least somewhat intelligently when I call. :001_unsure: Do I just call admissions and ask whom I need to talk to about homeschool requirements and admission? And what other questions do I need to add to this list? TIA! General homeschool guidelines for admission - deadlines, Common App or other, etc. Do they need to know their intended major to apply or is that something they declare after admission Need an actual printed diploma or is a transcript sufficient Does the transcript need to be notarized How detailed of a course description/materials do they need Any SAT subject tests required - if so, which ones Do they prefer SAT or ACT Anything they do *not* want to see as AP or from the CC - esp for math and/or science majors

I haven't heard of Find the Errors ... I'll look at that one too. Thanks!

Hmmmm ... you're right, it does kind of lose the "big picture" that way, doesn't it? I never really thought of it that way. I think because we were in public school up til 3 years ago, I just think of those extracurriculars and activities and lessons and whatnot as extra stuff we do for them/with them as part of our parenting and not just as part of "school". So I guess it's still a leftover from our public school mindset. I wonder how long it will take me to lose it? :)

He did Physical Science this year, so that's out. It's not that he doesn't do well in science, because he does, it just isn't a passion for him like it is for older DS. I did message Dr. Wile on Facebook this morning and asked him about combining the boys for Physics and he got right back to me and recommended that it would likely be overwhelming mathematically for 2nd DS. He probably could technically do it, but Dr. Wile doesn't recommend it. So I think I'll keep him with biology. On a side note, I puffy heart Dr. Wile! :001_wub:

Sorry, I was just listing academic subjects. :) They both do a PE class at a local private school once a week and exercise quite a bit on their own (running, trampoline, etc.) They both also take piano and guitar. And creative DS does drama as an extracurricular (just got done with A Midsummer Night's Dream!). He had originally wanted Filmmaking (his current free-time passion) from Landry Academy as his elective, but the course was full for this year. So the possible Marketing elective was his 2nd choice. He knows several men who use their creative juices to produce marketing videos and he thought that would maybe fit in to his interests somewhere. Thanks for the input and the encouragement to make sure he's well rounded! :) ETA: LLftLOTR is also part of his individuality. Older DS would never go for that, but creative DS has been writing his own version of the histories behind The Hobbit/LOTR and this curriculum was his choice and right up his alley! :)

I thought they had to be at least in precalc for physics? He's not had geometry or trig yet, just going straight from Algebra I to Algebra II. If he could swing the math, that would be a real boost to have them do it together!

We're not required, but we do attend a once a week PE class together and they all take piano. Thanks for the bump! :)

I know my signature makes it look like I have a lot of experience hs'ing, but I really don't. This is only the end of our 3rd year, so I still need some reassurance that I'm doing this whole thing right. :) Does this look OK for next year? Too much? Not enough? Just right? 7th grade DD 2 lit guide from Progeny Press (Witch of Blackbird Pond and Across Five Aprils) and a list of books to read and discuss with me History of US concise edition books A & B - also iCivics lessons and she'll work on a power point presentation on a president Crypto Mind Benders Practice taking notes from various sources Scratch Vocab from Classical Roots Apologia General Science + owl pellet dissection kit Analytical Grammar season 2 IEW - Student Writing Intensive B (this is a new program for us, I hope this is where I should put her, I plan to purchase and watch TWSS this summer) Math Mammoth Prealgebra and Understanding Geometry from Critical Thinking Company Artistic Pursuits middle school book 1 3rd grade DD Math Mammoth 3 & XtraMath Reading on her own from a list of books that go along with her history & narrating to me FLL 3 IEW All Things Fun & Fascinating Complete Book of US History- first half of the book - along with an Indiana history notebook and a short unit on Elections God's Design for Life science Handwriting w/o Tears Cursive Learning to play the recorder with 7th grade DD as teacher :) Artistic Pursuits book 3 AAS Building Thinking Skills & Mind Benders Typing Instructor Preschool DD age 4 misc gentle preschool activities - practicing letters and sounds and numbers, etc.

It's spring and planning season is on! :hurray: From my signature it looks like I have a lot of hs'ing experience, but I really don't. This is only the end of our 3rd year. So I still need some reassurance that I'm doing this right. :) Please be gentle, but let me know what you think ... too much, not enough, just right? 11th grade - this is my logical and sciencey kid who is into computers .5 credit US Gov - A Noble Experiment and a few Critical Thinking in USH lessons - along with 9th grade DS .5 credit Economics - TC Economics - along with 9th grade DS 1 credit Precalc - Chalkdust 1 credit Physics - Apologia 1 credit Spanish III - finish up Destinos videos, text, and workbooks 1 credit AP English Lang & Comp - homemade using a reading list of classics, Cliff's prep book, and IEW prep book 1 credit elective - TBD - possibly robotics or 3D modeling or another programming language of some kind 9th grade - this is my creative kid who dislikes organization of any kind .5 credit US Gov - A Noble experiment and a few Critical Thinking in USH lessons - along with 11th grade DS .5 credit Economics - TC Economics - along with 11th grade DS 1 credit Biology - Apologia 1 credit English I - hopefully finish up Wordsmith Craftsman - right now he's kind of struggling with Craftsman, so maybe substitute The Elegant Essay instead? - also Literary Lessons from the Lord of the Rings including all the extra unit studies - Vocab from Classical Roots - Fix It Grammar 1 credit Algebra II - finish up Video Text Algebra - maybe do some Bridge Math at the end of the year to make sure he's ready for the math in Chemistry the following year? 1 credit Spanish I - Visual Link Spanish .5 credit Intro to Logic and Rhetoric - Art of Argument and Argument Builder .5 credit elective - TBD - possibly marketing?

CLEP wasn't really on my radar for him as yet, he was just interested in a course in marketing so I was checking in to our options. But it's good to know that this one might be a good intro for him to college-level testing. Thanks!

This looks good too, I'll check it out. Thanks!

These are some great options! Thank you Lori D!

I think it's mainly his own writing he doesn't like to do all at one time. Since he's such a creative writer, he kind of sees me pointing out his errors/places for improvement as a mother would see you pointing out her child's flaws lol I think he'll be ok with errors in someone else's writing! :) Sent from my SM-T230NU using Tapatalk

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Thanks for the reply ... I did email and tell them we were interested in that class and they said they would notify me if another section was opened. But for 1 or 2 openings due to people switching around, dropping, etc., they said they don't do wait lists and I was on my own to keep checking back for openings.

These are some good tips ... thanks! I especially like the idea of keeping editing separate from rewrites. I think sometimes he gets bogged down with having to look at ALL the corrections at once.

Thanks everybody! I think we are going to go ahead and try Fix It 1 at a fast pace and see how it goes. He kind of rolled his eyes at me this morning when I had him marking nouns and putting in end punctuation, but I think it will be good for him to begin at this level.

2nd DS is trying to decide on an elective for next year when he's in 9th grade. His first choice was Landry Academy's Filmmaking I course, but that's full. :( So now he's talking about marketing. What texts, trade books, written output, and/or projects would you include for a semester's Intro to Marketing credit for a freshman?

I also looked at Editor in Chief by the Critical Thinking Company ... but the writing in Fix It appealed to us more. But maybe we should do that instead even if it is not as appealing? Would that do the trick too?

If I decide to go with Fix It I would probably have him do all of 1 week each day through the 1st book, then probably 2 sentences per day til we get through the 2nd and maybe 3rd books, if all goes well. I thought about even having him just skip the parsing/marking the sentences and just focus on the editing/punctuation. Do you think that would work? Or would that make a mess of the whole point of the program? He really likes the story aspect of Fix It - it appeals to the creative writer in him :) - so I thought his enjoyment of writing the story might overcome his reluctance to use something that seems too easy for him at first.

This would be for my 2nd DS, who is finishing up 8th grade. He is a fantastic creative writer, but not so much on academic writing. He is slowly working his way through Wordsmith Craftsman and is making improvements on the organization and structure of his essays. But he's still not doing well on editing his own work and leaves tons and tons and tons of errors in his writing. He's gone through Analytical Grammar (all 3 seasons) and while I love it and he can correct a sentence pretty well when it's presented to him like that, I just haven't seen the crossover into his self-editing skills that I'd like to see. I'm thinking that because IEW's Fix It has them re-write the corrected passages at the end of each week into a coherent story that it might be just the ticket for him ... but I'm just not sure. We/he have not used any IEW materials in the past, and I'm not sure if the way they have them parse/mark the sentences in Fix It would be confusing to him or not, since it's different than the way AG did it. And he doesn't know the IEW "lingo" at all. So would I be better off looking at something else? If so, what? TIA!

I just got them (the newly updated version) for my to-be 3rd grader. We will do life science next year, and continue with the rest of the series through 6th grade if they do turn out to be a good fit. I am YE myself, but I am uncomfortable with curricula that are dogmatic about that issue, and I haven't seen anything in the life science books that give me pause. I think they have good, solid info in there and fun, engaging activities/experiments. But I've only looked through them, not actually used them yet. HTH.

We watched Magic School Bus videos and did Magic School Bus experiment kits (super easy and fun) and read books and did a narration page every week or two for 1st and 2nd. It generated lots more excitement about science than anything else we tried at that age and it was much easier on me as well!

Just agreeing and putting in a plug for Dr. Wile. We love him as our science teacher around here! :) I am YE myself, but the Apologia books that are not by Dr. Wile have a tone that doesn't appeal to me. The tone of the books that still have Dr. Wile's name on them is much much MUCH different than anything else Apologia puts out. The middle school books include YE material, but are not dogmatic about it and you definitely wouldn't have to edit every day or even every week. The physical science book in particular is pretty challenging, I'd say, even for my science/math kid. We do use the high school books too and they've been excellent so far. Anything with Dr. Wile's name would be very easy for you to edit, IMO. As always, YMMV.