The kids have a Calculus mid-term today. It is amazing how much more efficient they are now at math test preparation compared to when they started last September. They stayed up late last night to prepare. Christian has a big paper due for his history class next Tuesday and a speech and a paper due for his psychology class on Thursday. Kelly has a statistics mid-term next week. They also have the normal daily homework, but it surely appears as though they know how to go about it more efficiently and less emotionally. After the test today, Christian will go back to the NCSU library to finish the research for his paper. He will go again tomorrow night to start the writing. Spring break is coming mid-week next week. They only get four days off for spring break with a weekend in the middle for a total of six days. That is oddly short, but the up side is that they get off in early May. Grandma and Grandpa will arrive the day before the break, so they will definitely have some down time. Christian’s plan is to hang out and play his guitar. Kelly plan is to hang out, draw Betty Blonde and work on her new web site. She be fun but relaxing.
T LaBrant
I just found one of your old posts about Sonlight and high school. So, that was some time ago. I have an 8th grader and am trying to figure out what to do for next year. Love the Clep ideas! Anything else you would suggest?
Troy
Good luck on all the tests and papers! Do they have two days on either side of the weekend or are they off starting Tues?
Hello T–Welcome! Thanks for the kudos on the CLEP. It worked great for us. We used it as a tool to assure we were getting all the necessary material, so the college credit was a big extra. As for what to do next year, I am pretty clueless. Our son Christian was an 8th grader last year and this year he started as a full time college student at the community college. He took 12 hours the first semester, but this semester he is up to 18 and doing fine. With his CLEP classes he is on schedule to graduate in three more years. Kelly, on the other hand, was a 10th grader last year, but has a lot more CLEP credits. Still she is scheduled to graduate at the same time as Christian because she wanted to study something pretty hard (math and statistics).
The way we did it with Kelly when she was in 9th and 10th grade was to have her take 3-4 CLEP tests per year and then do her other studying on the side. If I had to do it over, I might have put her in a class or two at the community college rather than study at home, but it all worked out just fine. It will be interesting to see what you do.