Early math and homeschool scheduling

Well, we have been having discussion after discussion about how Kelly, Christian, and I are going to do our homeschool thing while Lorena gets back into the community college.  We have pretty much decided that Lorena will wait until winter term before going back.  As for the homeschool schedule, we have come up with one, but it is not nearly as fun as last year.  First off, I will not be able to use my very cool comparison bars for percent complete between our school and the local government school because the government schools are year round schools with odd times off.  The second thing that makes it less fun is that, here in Wake County the schools are in session 180 days, just like we are so we do not have the ten day advantage over the 170 day government schools in Oregon.

At any rate, we have the school year lined up so that we can catch the two local conventions, in September, take a good two weeks off at Christmas time, take our trip to Puerto Vallarta with all the Pedrazas, along with my brother, his wife, Grandpa Milo, and Grandma Sarah.  Finally, we have a week long educational spring break set up for March on the Outer Banks here in North Carolina.  We will be able to go to the Wright Museum and the Lost Colony there, hang out on the beach, and generally just relax a little.  It will probably be too cold to swim, but it should be a very good time.  Our friends, the Larsons, are planning to join us along with Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah.  We are hoping for a Sushi cooking lesson from Grandpa Milo while we are there.

Today, though, the kids are going to start doing a lesson a day to get a little bit ahead on their math.  Our goal for this year is for Kelly to finish Algebra II and Christian to finish Algebra I.  We are on schedule for that, but we have decided to start a little early to give us some leeway in case we get behind a little, so that we can have a fighting chance of meeting that goal.  It is a good week to start because Kelly’s next door neighbor friend, Kasey is gone all week and the kids are worried about getting bored.