Business as usual is the best way to describe homeschool for December. We shut down the homeschool on December 23rd for the holidays. With the exception of a few minor assignments Kelly worked on yesterday and should finished up today, we have done nothing associated with homeschool for about a week and a half. In the meantime, Christian and I have started building a ham radio (Morse code only) and I have ordered a book and a compact disk for all three of us on the subject of radio. The book is the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual. It covers the material required to earn a Technician Class license. The CD is titled Your Introduction to Morse Code. While it is no longer necessary to learn Morse code to get a ham radio license, the radio we are building only works with Morse code and it will be very cool to learn anyway. I would really like the kids to be able to get their General Class license before the end of the school year. We will find out whether or not that is realistic after we get the materials.
Our main emphasis for the next little while will be preparation for the ACT on February 7. In addition, Kelly plans to take the U.S. History II CLEP test and Christian plans to take the Freshman Composition CLEP test sometime in February, too. Kelly is on course to finish up her Geometry and Christian will finish up Intermediate Algebra by the end of February. Kelly will then go on to Pre-calculus and Christian to Geometry. We have just a couple more days in our Explore Evolution book, after which, we will start in on both Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language and The Electronics of Radio. We normally would read a novel in the mix, too, but we have decided to read our novel on the way to Tennessee later this month to meet a bunch of other homeschool kids.