Life Update and Fic Update
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amberfocusI'm trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel here, but I still feel like I'm drowning. So Tobias has officially put in enough chair time and finished a high enough percentage of all of his courses to satisfy state requirements for our virtual internet homeschool class. This does not mean he's done with the 3rd grade, it just means no one is going to come knocking on our door saying we didn't do our job, so yay. The official school year ends on June 17th and we have until July 25th to finish the grade. Since we started the last week of October and not the beginning of September with this program, we have longer to complete it than the normal school year.
Lessons left for T:
Science: 0
Literature: 2
Art: 7
Spelling: 7
History: 11
Language Skills: 12
Math: 21
We are definitely on track to finish everything up in June, except Math which could run a week or so into July. Then again, some math he whizzes through so maybe we'll luck out and finish everything in June. I've been doubling up on everything but Math. Chris is doing the math with him right now since he's home, but mostly Chris is focusing on getting Rose through her stuff so she hits her percentages. Chair time is not an issue. Rose is a lot further behind because her stuff is a lot more complicated and not all of her books arrived as soon as T's did.
Lessons left for Rose:
Math: 3
Art: 4
Science: 14
History: 21
Literature: 31
Language Skills: 40
She'll make it, but it's a bit of a push if she wants to finish in June, which she does. I don't think she will though. I think she'll be doing lit and LS into July.
At least next year when we start 8th and 4th grades we won't be playing catch up all school year. We'll be able to have normal amounts of time devoted to lessons which will help with my stress and theirs, too, honestly. It'll be a relief not to have to worry about will we make it all school year long.
As for the fic update, I've written almost 2000 words on the next chapter of Zeppelins and my ficathon fic is up to 1500. It's Nine/Rose with Jack. It's an adventure fic that centers around an alien elephant. It probably will not have smut in it and will be more along the lines of Just Another Shop Girl, only shorter. Not that it won't have innuendo and a bit of spicy talk here and there, and lots of flirting, but the focus of the ficathon is adventure so I'm leaning more in that direction.
Lessons left for T:
Science: 0
Literature: 2
Art: 7
Spelling: 7
History: 11
Language Skills: 12
Math: 21
We are definitely on track to finish everything up in June, except Math which could run a week or so into July. Then again, some math he whizzes through so maybe we'll luck out and finish everything in June. I've been doubling up on everything but Math. Chris is doing the math with him right now since he's home, but mostly Chris is focusing on getting Rose through her stuff so she hits her percentages. Chair time is not an issue. Rose is a lot further behind because her stuff is a lot more complicated and not all of her books arrived as soon as T's did.
Lessons left for Rose:
Math: 3
Art: 4
Science: 14
History: 21
Literature: 31
Language Skills: 40
She'll make it, but it's a bit of a push if she wants to finish in June, which she does. I don't think she will though. I think she'll be doing lit and LS into July.
At least next year when we start 8th and 4th grades we won't be playing catch up all school year. We'll be able to have normal amounts of time devoted to lessons which will help with my stress and theirs, too, honestly. It'll be a relief not to have to worry about will we make it all school year long.
As for the fic update, I've written almost 2000 words on the next chapter of Zeppelins and my ficathon fic is up to 1500. It's Nine/Rose with Jack. It's an adventure fic that centers around an alien elephant. It probably will not have smut in it and will be more along the lines of Just Another Shop Girl, only shorter. Not that it won't have innuendo and a bit of spicy talk here and there, and lots of flirting, but the focus of the ficathon is adventure so I'm leaning more in that direction.
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Date: 2009-06-09 10:37 pm (UTC)As for the news about Zeppelins - well as you can imagine there were some excited faces around the refectory table when I told the Little Sisters of Guh about that happy news!!
*divahugs*
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Date: 2009-06-10 10:02 pm (UTC)As for Zeppelins, I just sent the next chapter to Amy to be beta'd. *grins*
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Date: 2009-06-09 10:42 pm (UTC)Good luck with the homeschooling stuff :)
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Date: 2009-06-10 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 04:35 am (UTC)Pretty sure you knew. XD
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 03:06 pm (UTC)But yes, I subsist on your 9/Rose fics ALONE! *crazy eyes*
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Date: 2009-06-10 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 05:29 am (UTC)As for your stories, I don't have to be anywhere in the evenings, for over a week now. So I am ready to beta when you are ready to send to me.
*hugs*
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:54 am (UTC)