Oldest signed up for FLVS. Our state provides free online course and the credits count as regular high school credit. Each course has a certified teacher. You sign up to start any month and take as many or as few classes as you like. Pretty nifty if you ask me.
Oldest is in Precalculus. When I looked online at what it covered, she had only done about 1/2 of what they cover. What we covered this year was what could typically be covered in a college Precalculus course, but the state of Florida adds in all sorts of the other stuff she's never seen: sequences and series, vectors, polar coordinates and limits. I'm pretty sure we covered that in Calculus when I went through and I know we didn't cover it when I taught Precalc. Anyway, she opted to retake part of it so she could get used to the format and catch up on the stuff she hasn't seen before moving on.
The first test was a little hairy. I think I need to help her learn how to study. We've done a few reviews and tests, but it's not the same as taking a REAL timed test for a grade, I think. She's got a mid-B average overall so I'm happy with her progress, though I'm sure she's frustrated by not having a 99% like she did in her previous class!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Wow, 2 months?
I made this and then went two months without an update? I am not a good blogger apparently. I even forgot which email address and password I used. Fortunately, I keep a list of these things for my old feeble brain and when I finally found where I had left *that* I could log back in.
So what have we done in two months to keep me so busy? Well, starting with April: I got a few days away in Vegas with the husband in an attempt to regain my tenuous hold on sanity. Instead of relaxing pool side, I got sick. I'd still take it over no vacation though.
The kids had all their regular activities: bowling, ice skating, band and soccer plus they started karate. I know, I know. Add in another activity? But karate is during the day, once a week and they can continue through summer when everything else is over and Middle Child has always wanted to try it. Plus it was cheap, always a winner in my book.
In May, just when I thought things would be winding down, soccer and band were extended. We had the regular offenders... I mean activities. Plus, Oldest also had a formal dance, a soccer tournament and we had a rock climbing excursion. My calendar was at least as full as ever.
Now, we're at the beginning of June. June, you were supposed to be wide open. What did I do to you? Soccer tryouts last week, band camp this week and soccer camp next week, but at least none of it involves me planning or teaching anything! Graduation, graduation parties, 4 family birthdays and Father's Day round out the month.
I want to figure out how the homeschool hermits do it. I need to learn to sign up for nothing, stay home, talk to no one and become the stereotypical antisocial homeschooler. Granted, no one I know is actually like that, but surely someone out there is for us to get that stereotype. I think that is because my friends and I are all cursed with sign-up-itis. It really is a disease. Possibly contagious.
And even as I admit all that, I'm mentally lining up things we can do for fall.
So what have we done in two months to keep me so busy? Well, starting with April: I got a few days away in Vegas with the husband in an attempt to regain my tenuous hold on sanity. Instead of relaxing pool side, I got sick. I'd still take it over no vacation though.
The kids had all their regular activities: bowling, ice skating, band and soccer plus they started karate. I know, I know. Add in another activity? But karate is during the day, once a week and they can continue through summer when everything else is over and Middle Child has always wanted to try it. Plus it was cheap, always a winner in my book.
In May, just when I thought things would be winding down, soccer and band were extended. We had the regular offenders... I mean activities. Plus, Oldest also had a formal dance, a soccer tournament and we had a rock climbing excursion. My calendar was at least as full as ever.
Now, we're at the beginning of June. June, you were supposed to be wide open. What did I do to you? Soccer tryouts last week, band camp this week and soccer camp next week, but at least none of it involves me planning or teaching anything! Graduation, graduation parties, 4 family birthdays and Father's Day round out the month.
I want to figure out how the homeschool hermits do it. I need to learn to sign up for nothing, stay home, talk to no one and become the stereotypical antisocial homeschooler. Granted, no one I know is actually like that, but surely someone out there is for us to get that stereotype. I think that is because my friends and I are all cursed with sign-up-itis. It really is a disease. Possibly contagious.
And even as I admit all that, I'm mentally lining up things we can do for fall.
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