Christian surprised us and did well enough on the COMPASS math placement test, he will join Kelly in Calculus I (Differential Calculus) this year. That should make life very interesting for him. He will take Biology I with Lorena and Calculus I with Kelly. Right now, he is at Wake Christian Academy taking the sit-down portion of the driver education class required of all young drivers here in North Carolina.
Month: June 2010
Christian is scheduled to take the COMPASS test today at Wake Tech community college. It is a test from the same company that makes the ACT college entrance exam. The purpose of the test is to evaluate the level of math at which Christian will start this fall. Kelly did not have to take the test because she took and passed the CLEP Precalculus test so she will take Calculus I (Differential Calculus). We have entered our desired schedule for next year in the Wake Tech computer. Everyone but special and dual enrollment students gets to register before new students so we hope everyone gets the classes they want. If we get the schedule we want, everyone should have Tuesday and Thursday mostly free to take music classes, study for CLEP tests and that sort of thing.
Well, this is our last homeschool update for this year and maybe forever. As I have written previously, the kids will both start taking classes at the community college this fall. We will continue with some CLEP testing, reading, volunteer work, and other homeschool activities next year, but my full time participation is now complete. I will keep writing about our activities, but not as the principal administrator of Kelly’s and Christian’s educational activities. It has been a great run.
We identified classes at our local community college and got them entered into the system so that all we will have to do is push a button on the morning registration is available to new students. It is all pretty exciting. The loads are not too heavy, but he classes are hard ones. If we get the classes we want, everyone will be finished by lunch most days and I think everyone will have Thursdays free. Lorena and Christian are scheduled to take an introductory Biology class and lab together, so that should be fun. We set it up so there is time for Christian to continue his guitar, Kelly to continue with her piano, and Lorena to talk with her mom in Mexico on Skype. We are going to see if there is enough time for Kelly and Christian to attempt one CLEP test per semester, but we are not too sure how well that will work.
This Memorial Day weekend we mostly just hung out as a family. I was able to make some pretty good advances on the GaugeCam project. We did that thing where I make changes, Troy figures out what I did wrong, and I try to fix it. I spent most of the time figuring out what I did before because I had been away from it for awhile. Still, we identified some things we can do to make it better so I have my punch list of items to complete and am looking forward to working on them. Troy installed some web-based project management called BaseCamp that should make tracking all of this much easier. That is what Andrew has us using at work, too. I like it a lot.