High School at Home; Emma's Story

I got busy and didn't find time to write last week, so this will be a review of the past two weeks. I am very pleased so far with how our school year is progressing. Hopefully this continues, although it seems something always comes up to put a halt to school at some point each year. So far, Emma is: Algebra: 2/3 of the way through Pace 3. If anyone thinks ACE is "too easy", don't judge till you've tried it. Most days we do NOT do ACE independently. I give a brief lesson, do one problem to show her how to on the whiteboard, then do 2 or 3 problems WITH Emma, and she then will finish the lesson herself. We've spent all of this week learning to multiply more and more complicated polynomials. History/Literature: Emma has read several chapters in, "Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt", several stories in, "Tales of Ancient Egypt", and we finished reading the entire book of Genesis, and have read the first five chapters of Exodus. We have officially...

Has it really been another week? This one went FAST! It seems as if I JUST wrote last week's review. I'm even a day late (and a dollar short?) because we had an awesome day yesterday and was too busy to write. Schoolwise, Emma did: Algebra: finished Pace 2, and got a 90% on her test. Ancient History/Literature: labeled a map of Egypt, and read 20 chapters in Genesis, and continued in the books, "Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt", and, "Tales of Ancient Egypt". Writing: we read, discussed, and did examples in chapter 2, "Persuasive Essays", and she chose a topic, and we brainstormed ideas for points to support that topic. Chemistry: She read the first section in chapter 2 ( molecular bonding), answered the first set of summary questions, and watched the 4th video in Chemistry 101. French: we began chapter 2. This is a long, information packed chapter, so we are only about a third of the way through. Emma does very well in French,  (tres bien en...