Homeschool update – 2008 March

Kelly passed her first CLEP test with an A, the PASS standardized tests arrived, and the kids have started their annual research reports. Everything is moving along at a fairly normal pace. The thing on which we are currently spending the most time is math. I do not think that will change through the end of the year and on into next year as we are at such a critical stage in providing a base of understanding for the calculus as well as other studies such as physics, statistics, and other hard science subjects. This year, Kelly is doing her annual report on Roanoke Island. She initially started with the idea that she would study the Lost Colony, but got so interested in the entire area, that she expanded the topic. Christian has narrowed his topic down to the history of Artillery starting with catapults, trebuchets, and moving on to modern propelled and exploding kinds of things. We were wanting to get started on the radio project this spring, but it looks like that will need to be postponed until the summer. That is the project where we will build a radio kit to learn radio theory to get ready for the kids to get there ham radio licenses. Yesterday, the kids did their first workout at the new YMCA that opened up in our area. Today, they will go down to be trained on how to use the equipment and learn the rules. We signed up for a one year membership and are all looking forward to using the beautiful new facility. Science, Spanish, history, literature, and all the other subjects are moving along according to schedule.

Bryan, I am finally on track with the whole weight-loss thing. I am down almost ten pounds and starting to accelerate a little!