{"id":377,"date":"2014-07-06T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/?p=377"},"modified":"2014-07-06T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T03:27:07","slug":"new-school-year-new-state-new-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2014\/07\/06\/new-school-year-new-state-new-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"New School Year, New State, New Regulations."},"content":{"rendered":"

I know it’s early, but we usually homeschool during the hot summer months to allow us to take more time off during the holidays and spring.\u00a0 But here’s the catch.\u00a0 We’ve moved -which is why the lesson plans stopped being posted in February.\u00a0 We’ve moved from a state that had fairly lax rules and an area that was pretty friendly to homeschoolers, to a state that is pretty strict and an area that is anything but friendly to homeschoolers.<\/p>\n

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In Maryland, you have to submit to portfolio reviews, which are done by the school board.\u00a0 In the county we live, the board is notorious for being hard on homeschoolers. As such, we’ve opted for the Umbrella School option.\u00a0 Thankfully I found an umbrella school that will allow us to use whatever curriculum we want. Another thing about Maryland, is that we have to show proof of progress in not just Math & Language – which is all that was required to show progress in Virginia – but also in Science, History, Music, & Art.\u00a0 I’ll be honest, we were doing Language, Math, & History with the younger two, threw in science as well for the oldest, & unschooling everything else.\u00a0 Now that I need something more concrete to prove the work *is* being done, I’ve got to add something with a bit more structure in each subject.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the oldest.\u00a0 He’s doing high school level work this year, despite being an 8th grader.\u00a0 In Virginia, I was letting him take the CAT (California Achievement Test) for his grade level according to the state, so that if we hit a rough patch, we’d have room to slow down & really dig in.\u00a0 But in Maryland, you only get to claim high school credit for 3 courses, and he’s taking 4 high school courses – Math, Science, History, and Language.\u00a0 So, it makes more sense to promote him to 9th grade and make him officially in high school.<\/p>\n

So this year, everyone will be using Math-U-See<\/a>, and I’m counting this summer’s swimming lessons & pool time as PE for everyone.\u00a0 The younger two are using Easy Grammar<\/a>, and BJU’s American Heritage Studies<\/a>.\u00a0 They’ve decided on Apologia’s Land Animals<\/a> for their science, and we will be using SQUILT <\/a>for Music Appreciation.\u00a0 Besides Math-U-See’s Algebra 1, the oldest will be using Switched On Schoolhouse<\/a> for Grammar, History, and Bible.\u00a0 For science he will be using Apologia’s Physical Science<\/a>, Typingweb.com<\/a> for typing, and for art, we’ll be using a combination of sources found online, primarily Khan Academy<\/a> & TICE 1010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So… Aprendemos Academy officially starts it’s 2014-2015 school year tomorrow morning.\u00a0 I am so not ready for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know it’s early, but we usually homeschool during the hot summer months to allow us to take more time off during the holidays and spring.\u00a0 But here’s the catch.\u00a0 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classes","category-general","category-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/4474421855_4b20643258.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}