Lorena will drive the kids to Johnston Community College in Smithfield this afternoon to take CLEP tests.  This will be Christian’s first.  He will take the Freshman College Composition.  He seems to be very well prepared so we are excited to see how he does.  It was a little scary, but a lot exciting and fun when Kelly took this same test as her first about a year ago.  Kelly will take the Introductory Psychology test.  I think she is pretty well prepared, too.  If they pass these tests, Kelly will move on to take US History II and Christian will take Western Civilization I.

We have been thinking about what to do for a third language.  We really were not thinking about doing another romance language, but are starting to rethink that a little.  Our problem is time and resources.  We have wanted to study a language for a year or two, then go someplace as a family for a six to eight week immersion course in the summer.  Lorena has always been enamored with the idea of learning French.  Quebec is within driving distance and we have friends there.  So, now French, along with Russian and Mandarin, is on the table.  We pretty much have to decide what we are going to do within the next two or three months.  We want to have at least one full year of Rosetta Stone behind us before we go.  Of course the kids do not have to stop at three languages, but the older one gets, the harder it is to learn a language well.  Any thoughts on this by any of you will be grateful considered.

Interesting old post:  When I checked my blog statistics page this morning, I noticed that someone had visited this old post on socialization.  It was not that what I had written was so interesting, nor was it the really bad comic that I drew.  It was how the reader found the link to that particular post.  It seems they had performed a Google search on Koehler “Socialization Skills in Home Schooled Children”.  I think the thing they were looking for was this document that describes a study that compares Socialization Skills in Home Schooled Children Versus Conventionally Schooled Children.  I read through that very interesting document again, making a note to myself to recommend it to people who have sincere questions about this subject.

Results:  Woo-hoo!  They both passed.  Kelly is now up to 24 credit hours earned.  Christian has his first 6.  Congrats to both of them.