It's good to hear the piano again

I am really glad the school year has started because it means my kids are playing the piano again. They took the summer off because they didn't have any lessons over the summer. Sure they played from time to time, but between the two of them, I am hearing piano music for several hours a day.

Yay!


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Curriculum plan 2009-2010

Woke up 3 hours late today... too late to go to church. Still on LA Time.
Spent the rest of the day working on curriculum plan for the year and then for the next week.
Can't believe it is almost 1am and I am not sleepy. Still on LA time!

What are we using this year? Most of our curriculum this year is free with the homeschool budget going into their Fine Arts Program and testing fees. (I paid for Rosetta Stone last year and am enjoying the perks of that expense this year. We are a test family for lifetime learning as they perfect their online curriculum that used to be available by CDrom)

Daughter:

• Lifetime Library for language, science, and history
• Khan Academy for math (Algebra 1)
  
• Rosetta Stone for Spanish (taking up most of the budget)
• Thinking about supplementing Spanish with Byki.com
• Artios Conservatory for Fine Arts (Theater /Music Concentration)

This is a take-it-easy year with lots of classical reading to get her accustomed to high school level work

Son:

• Khan Academy for Math (Algebra 2)
• Rosetta Stone for Spanish
• CLEP exams W/ REA guides for Language, Science, History, and Math by year's End will be using lifetime library and Learner.org as base curriculum.
  
• May use InstantCert website for help with CLEP Exams
• Artios Conservatory for Fine Arts (Film/Art Concentration)
  

Plan is to do Math and Spanish Daily and begin with Language Arts Clep, Science CLEP in 2nd Quarter, History CLEP in 3rd Quarter, Finish the year with Math and possibly Spanish Clep




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It's a new school year!

We are home from California and ready to start the new school year.

The kids are going to Artios Conservatory on Tuesdays (High school fine arts, drama, chorus, etc).

My son is studying for Clep Exams this year.

My daughter is doing online curriculum programs.

I am also pledging to travel more and do more field trips.

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Why is homeschool.com advertising for public school programs

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I just got an email from homeschool.com advertising for IQ Academy which serves a handful of states. Not only is the program free in these areas, but students also receive free laptops. This give me the impression that it is public school at home, making the kids technically public school students and not homeschoolers.

Now I don't care which program people use as long as they know the difference. The email I received blurs the lines.



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