The school year ended for us on Monday of this week.  We had a great school year, our sixth full year since we started.  Here is a brief list of some of the things each of the kids accomplished:

Kelly’s Freshman year of high school

  • Finished Geometry and got a good start into Precalculus
  • Received college credit through CLEP tests for Sociology (3 hours), Psychology (3 hours), U.S. History II (3 hours), and Spanish (12 hours).  She will take Biology on June 10 which should bring her grand total to 34 credit hours which would make here a college sophomore
  • Completed her tenth year of piano lessons with a great teacher (Brenda Bruce) very encouraged to continue through college
  • Established a routine to systematically measure improvements in exercise performance while planning and maintaining a health diet
  • Finished memorizing Matthew 6, 7, and 8 to be video taped this summer for posterity
  • Read all the Sonlight literature  and history books for the year
  • Completed Apologia Biology
  • Continued working through the second year of Rosetta Stone Spanish
  • Received a very satisfactory score on her first attempt at the ACT college entrance exam

Christian’s seventh grade year

  • Finished Algebra II and got a good start into Geometry
  • Received college credit for his first CLEP test in Freshman English Compositon (6 hours)
  • Completed his third year of guitar–we have found him a new and very accomplished teacher about whom I will write more later
  • Established a routine to systematically measure improvements in exercise performance
  • Finished memorizing Matthew 6 and 7 to be video taped this summer for posterity
  • Read all the Sonlight literature and history books for the year
  • Completed Apologia Physical Science
  • Completed his two year survey of World History
  • Continued working throught the second year of Rosetta Stone Spanish
  • Received a high enough score on the ACT college entrance exam as part of the Duke TIP testing to receive a state award
  • Assembled a Ham radio (needs to be tested and tuned to get it to work).

Both of the kids continued work on a variety of craft and art projects including knitting, crocheting, drawing comics, etc.  It was a super year that we enjoyed very much.  This summer both of the kids are going to work on their math and Spanish at about half a normal schedule.  They will also both practice their instruments through the summer, swim for the swim team, go to visit relatives, and to two or three church conventions.  Schools out for summer!  I will write a little bit about the plan for next year, but that can wait until next month.