I was visiting a blog at lunch time and came across this website. I thought it was very cool! It features ticker that allows you to show your weight loss, debt reduction, fund raising, body mass index (BMI) on a neat little ticker. I thought it was a really cool idea. I know I would certainly use it if I had not already set up our very cool Goggle chart. Lyle looks like he is already using something like that on his website to track running/walking.
Day: July 11, 2008
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I hope to get started on homeschool planning for the start of the 2008-2009 school year Saturday afternoon. I was not going to buy the Sonlight curriculum this year, but after talking to Kelly, I decided to get the literature for the ninth grade program. We all just love those books and it would be a shame for her to miss any of them. This is the first year we will not be using one of the Sonlight Core programs. Kelly has done well on the CLEP tests, so we have decided to have her prepare for additional tests in place of those parts of the Sonlight program we do not feel are that helpful. She just finished U.S. History I so she will start up with U.S. History II, studying it in parallel with preparation for CLEP Spanish. The Spanish test is a HUGE test counting for up to twelve semester hours (two years) of credit if she gets a high enough score. We will have Christian start preparing for the Freshman English Composition test a couple of months into the year followed by the Spanish test. Those should really be enough for him for the year as he will still be heavily into the Sonlight Core Curriculum for seventh grade.