I'm making S's schedule for the rest of the year. We're doing a year round school year as opposed to the 9 month year that many public schools go on. I don't see the point in having that big of a break when all the information that is learned is then lost in that time. Her first break will be in June and it will last for a week and then she'll have two more breaks 3 weeks apart throughout the summer.

I'm picking up the pace in S's assignments, lately we'd been concentrating on a few central subjects but with summer coming, I want to get through this stuff. By the time fall is here, if we follow my somewhat strenuous schedule, S should be done with the first semester of her 10th grade work. If she were in public school she'd just be beginning 10th grade this fall. At the rate we're going now S should graduate sometime around 17.

S will likely go to college and that is what I am preparing her for. I'm also trying to give her as many real life skills as I can, and that is coming along well. I'm pretty sure that S will qualify for financial aid for college but I have no idea if she'll be able to get enough to cover all the costs. So, when she is old enough to get a job I'm going to talk to her parents about letting her so she can save up for a car and college costs.

I think that it is very important to be more than monolingual. With my own kids, I plan to have them fluent in at least 5 languages before they graduate high school. S only started homeschooling in high school so she won't have that opportunity. But, I am trying my hardest to get her fluent in at least two other languages. Right now she's concentrating on Spanish, in a year I'll probably introduce another language of her choice which will likely be French. She's also learning a little German from being around my family when we speak German but that won't get her to the fluent level so I don't count it as a language that she's "learning".