Ok, so really this is the PLAN and the REALITY since I never got to putting together a post on our plan. I’ve learned a lot about language acquisition this year, so here goes. We started with the Holt Bien Dit 3 textbook. From what I can gather, very few standard school textbooks have aContinue reading “The Reality: French 3”
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High School French 2 – The Reality
In my previous post laying out “The Plan” for French 2, I listed a few directions that we would go this year, so I will address each of those “wish list items” individually. Note: Bear with me. I am so behind on these posts, so I am just going to free-form write quickly to shareContinue reading “High School French 2 – The Reality”
High School Geometry – The Reality
This is a follow-up post to the beginning-of-the-year post on my Plan for Geometry for this school year. In this post I will discuss how Geometry went and whether we stuck to the Plan. As I mention in my Plan for Geometry post, Sunshinegirl has never claimed to be a “mathy” person. While I thinkContinue reading “High School Geometry – The Reality”
High School: Book Reviews
This post isn’t so much about a specific subject, but more of a “technique” I find both useful and memorable. We’ve always used “living books” where possible in homeschool (AmblesideOnline the early years, and Build Your Library now), and I initially wanted a method of reflecting on the books that we read. I think IContinue reading “High School: Book Reviews”
High School Biology – The Reality
I had high expectations for Biology this year, knowing Sunshinegirl loved all things nature. The “rest” of Biology (microbiology, for example) could have gone either way — and different parts went different ways. The Textbook We started the year using the CK-12 Chemistry 1.0 book, but we quickly found that she had a rough timeContinue reading “High School Biology – The Reality”
Top of Her Class of One 