I worked on Christian’s homeschool schedule for about an hour or so while Lorena and the kids were at Christian’s guitar lesson followed by shopping for new shoes for Christian. I cannot believe it–Christian wears size 7½ now. That is only a half size smaller than me. Lorena got him some running shoes so he could start preparing for a triathlon. After having spent several days getting Kelly’s schedule ready, I decided to change the way we are going to do seventh grade for Christian relative to how we did it for Kelly. There are several reasons. Kelly and Christian are different from each other, Christian is half a year older than Kelly when she started seventh grade, we have learned some new ways of studying that seem to work better for us, etc., etc.
Christian and I looked over the preliminary schedule when I had it pretty well put together. We made some adjustments based on his desire to keep his NerdHow “how-to” blog posting as a non-school activity. Really that is great. He enjoys that and if we turn it into something he has to do, it could be a lot less fun. I have some good writing activities in there already, but I need to add a little more. In addition, I have decided that he will work on the Freshman English Composition CLEP preparation book from the very beginning of the year. A different kind of studying is required to prepare for that CLEP test, so it will be a good English review and a time to practice some new study techniques that will be useful when he gets to college.
Kelly has set up a mailing list for her Betty Blonde comic. If you would like to subscribe to her mailing list, you can click here to do that. Christian is making great progress on his Spike the Cactus comic that uses the same Betty Blonde characters, but from a little different perspective.