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I just ordered Before Five In A Row to start with my DD. I really am hoping I will like it. I have heard good things about it. I was an elementary teacher before becoming a stay at home mom and I loved using literature as my main curriculum and building off of it! So excited to start, well and feeling a little overwhelmed!
 
Keep in mind as you're planning that to participate, you have to buy one of their ticket packages.

I was so excited that we were going to be there during Homeschool Days this year, but am unable to participate, since it would cost us another $500, just for the one session.

It's a shame they won't let us just pay a small fee and participate, when we're already spending far and above what they are charging for the homeschool tickets :confused3 I would love to do the American Story YES program, but I don't think we can, since we're not buying a Homeschool Days package.

I hope everyone who is going this year has a great time! Wish I could join you, though :sad2:


Ummmmmm...I've not bought a ticket package, either for this Sept or last Jan. I only purchased the YES program fee for the American Story. In Jan, I bought the "annual passholder" event tickets for $16 each, but opted not to do that this time around. Many of the folks who come are AP holders and only pay for the programs they are interested in, not park admission, and not all of them are FL residents...I met lots of folks from GA and the Carolinas in Jan.

Check into it again...we'd love to have fellow DIS-homeschoolers on our program!!
 
Ummmmmm...I've not bought a ticket package, either for this Sept or last Jan. I only purchased the YES program fee for the American Story. In Jan, I bought the "annual passholder" event tickets for $16 each, but opted not to do that this time around. Many of the folks who come are AP holders and only pay for the programs they are interested in, not park admission, and not all of them are FL residents...I met lots of folks from GA and the Carolinas in Jan.

Check into it again...we'd love to have fellow DIS-homeschoolers on our program!!

Really!?! That would be great! We're trying to decide if we want to do the American Story YES program (it starts really early in the morning ;)). They don't list the AP event tiks on the website, and when I called and asked about options about how we could attend, I was only told that I would have to buy the smallest ticket package they had available. I may call back and see if there is an AP ticket price. Did you have to show your AP's? We don't have AP's, and I wasn't sure if I was going to buy them this trip. I wonder if they're not offering the AP option b/c of free dining? I'd love to go and meet your DD's, as well as other DIS kids! Thanks Dawn!
Missy

P.S. Are you in Florida now, or are you back in Ohio?
 
Really!?! That would be great! We're trying to decide if we want to do the American Story YES program (it starts really early in the morning ;)). They don't list the AP event tiks on the website, and when I called and asked about options about how we could attend, I was only told that I would have to buy the smallest ticket package they had available. I may call back and see if there is an AP ticket price. Did you have to show your AP's? We don't have AP's, and I wasn't sure if I was going to buy them this trip. I wonder if they're not offering the AP option b/c of free dining? I'd love to go and meet your DD's, as well as other DIS kids! Thanks Dawn!
Missy

P.S. Are you in Florida now, or are you back in Ohio?

I'm still a CM (retail manager at All Star Resorts), so we don't have an AP, I have old admission as well as my CM passes. In Jan, we didn't have to show anything, just get in the park. The event tix for AP holders are all the way at the bottom of the page. I think my girls would be bored by that after the Jan event, so that's why I opted just to do the one YES program. I was able to just add those to the cart. I hope we can see you when you're here!
 

Hello.

I have been MIA, playing Farm town on Facebook. LOL!

Just wondering when everyone was starting back.

I have all my stuff ready to go and will probably start the end of the month.

DD hasn't had much summer. She had tonsillitis and pneumonia and was diagnosed with asthma. SO, her summer has really just started.
 
Poor kid!! Well, maybe she still needs some time off;)
We have started, but we are phasing in slowly --subj by subj this time, instead of all at once! We started with history July 6---week before last we started Science...this past week we were gonna start our writing program and Math...but I was sick and had ulcers in my mouth and COULD NOT talk without lots of pain.. so we will pick it up later this week...we are really liking it better this way. And our History is the longest subject for the year, so we needed to start it first.
 
I'm still a CM (retail manager at All Star Resorts), so we don't have an AP, I have old admission as well as my CM passes. In Jan, we didn't have to show anything, just get in the park. The event tix for AP holders are all the way at the bottom of the page. I think my girls would be bored by that after the Jan event, so that's why I opted just to do the one YES program. I was able to just add those to the cart. I hope we can see you when you're here!

Hey Dawn, I showed DH the info about the American Story YES program, and he isn't real interested in it, so don't know if we'll do it or not. Would love to meet up with you sometime while we're there, though, and get to meet in person, if you're interested. We'll be there 9/15-26, staying at the BC. PM me and let me know!

Missy
 
Hello.

I have been MIA, playing Farm town on Facebook. LOL!

Just wondering when everyone was starting back.

I have all my stuff ready to go and will probably start the end of the month.

DD hasn't had much summer. She had tonsillitis and pneumonia and was diagnosed with asthma. SO, her summer has really just started.


I'm addicted to facebook too!!!:goodvibes We're going to start at the end of August as well. We're having a wonderful summer and we're doing a lot of projects and lessons on fun things. This week was the ocena, they learned so much and had a lot of fun when we went on sunday. We had so much fun we're going again next sunday!!!
We're doing some reading, writing and math daily too, we've been doing that throughout the summer.

We're still in the middle of purchasing all of the books we need, so we'll be ready to start in a few weeks!!
 
DD keeps getting science books and movies out of the library and we just finished 2nd grade math last week, so it has not been a wasted summer. I have just gotten time off!

I am guessing she will be ready for school by the end of the month and then a month after that is WDW!
 
The doorbell rang a little bit ago. Usually, the UPS man will ring the doorbell, then put the box down and walk down the driveway. I just yell "thank you" from the doorway. This time, he was still standing at the door with an Abeka box in his hand. He handed it to me and said he loves delivering these boxes. He used to deliver them to a homeschooling family in town who had 3 boys. One time, the youngest boy told him "I'll give you a dollar if you throw these boxes in the creek." :rotfl:
 
The doorbell rang a little bit ago. Usually, the UPS man will ring the doorbell, then put the box down and walk down the driveway. I just yell "thank you" from the doorway. This time, he was still standing at the door with an Abeka box in his hand. He handed it to me and said he loves delivering these boxes. He used to deliver them to a homeschooling family in town who had 3 boys. One time, the youngest boy told him "I'll give you a dollar if you throw these boxes in the creek." :rotfl:

LOL:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:
 
The doorbell rang a little bit ago. Usually, the UPS man will ring the doorbell, then put the box down and walk down the driveway. I just yell "thank you" from the doorway. This time, he was still standing at the door with an Abeka box in his hand. He handed it to me and said he loves delivering these boxes. He used to deliver them to a homeschooling family in town who had 3 boys. One time, the youngest boy told him "I'll give you a dollar if you throw these boxes in the creek." :rotfl:

That is the funniest!!!! thanks for sharing!!!:rotfl:
 
The doorbell rang a little bit ago. Usually, the UPS man will ring the doorbell, then put the box down and walk down the driveway. I just yell "thank you" from the doorway. This time, he was still standing at the door with an Abeka box in his hand. He handed it to me and said he loves delivering these boxes. He used to deliver them to a homeschooling family in town who had 3 boys. One time, the youngest boy told him "I'll give you a dollar if you throw these boxes in the creek." :rotfl:

Cute story!
 
The doorbell rang a little bit ago. Usually, the UPS man will ring the doorbell, then put the box down and walk down the driveway. I just yell "thank you" from the doorway. This time, he was still standing at the door with an Abeka box in his hand. He handed it to me and said he loves delivering these boxes. He used to deliver them to a homeschooling family in town who had 3 boys. One time, the youngest boy told him "I'll give you a dollar if you throw these boxes in the creek." :rotfl:

:rotfl:
 
My kids are asking to start again, so Monday is the first day of our new school year. I had planned on waiting until after Labor Day, but this way will be further along before our Wish trip in November.
 
This is our first year of HS, and we actually started July 1st. In Georgia, a school year is the full 12 months, with a minimum 180 days each year. We are on pace to finish the school year around mid April. We will see if that stays on schedule. Then, we will begin the next grade level, with time off for good behavior. :lmao:

Some on here have said that the summer heat is the perfect time to be inside schooling, and we couldn't agree more. None of the kids in our neighborhood have come outside to play since school let out 2 months ago, so cabin fever can be a problem.

We will be at WDW during HS Days, but do not yet know how much we will attend. We are contemplating waiting until January.
 
We have been HS for a little over a mos. now. But I'm still feeling pressure to finish 1 lesson per day & only 2 days off........ I know that it is school tradition driving me, but it isn't helping DS.

We plan to school all year since the summer is too hot, but we don't quite know how often to take days off. The traditional 2 days per wk aren't cutting it. DH works 7 & 7 so we really don't need the actual weekends. Weekdays off would be better since places are cheaper & less crowded.

How do you year rounders know how often you can take off & still not get caught by the 180 days. I'm worried that if we start taking time off that we will not finish in time to petition the state to renew our Home Study.
 
we still haven't officially started but are working on find motor skills like tracing and cutting. I think we'll try to start next Monday. I at least need to get our calendar up.
 
We have been HS for a little over a mos. now. But I'm still feeling pressure to finish 1 lesson per day & only 2 days off........ I know that it is school tradition driving me, but it isn't helping DS.

We plan to school all year since the summer is too hot, but we don't quite know how often to take days off. The traditional 2 days per wk aren't cutting it. DH works 7 & 7 so we really don't need the actual weekends. Weekdays off would be better since places are cheaper & less crowded.

How do you year rounders know how often you can take off & still not get caught by the 180 days. I'm worried that if we start taking time off that we will not finish in time to petition the state to renew our Home Study.

Thinking, 180 days to meet state requirement, leaving 185 days off.

Ok, I'm thinking. DH works 7 & 7, so it would be great if we could take off 5 of his 7 days. That would be 10 days per month or 120 days per year.

Approximately 20 days of holiday.
July 4th - 1day
Labor day - 1 day
Hallowen - 1 day
Thanksgiving - 5 days (we usually go to Fort Worth to see my DSIS & DBRO)
Christmas/New Year - 5 days
Mardi Gras - 3 days
Good Friday/Easter - 3 days
Birthday - 1 day (their b-days are only 5 days apart)

This eats up 140 days of the 185 off. This should leave us w/ 25 days for illness & unexpected plans & vacations.

Is 25 days enough flex/vacation? I don't want to get caught w/o the year finished & it be time to report to the state.
 
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