<p>Boy does this thread hit home! I, too, have worked really hard to tone down the conversation, as first born daughter/stress machine is about to explode. Sorry, T.S. Eliot, but May is the cruelest month!</p>
<p>Party at the history house tonight! DDs finished APs yesterday so when they get home from school we will have cake and rootbeer floats. Any suggestions for little gifts?</p>
<p>I'd think being done with APs and having cake and floats would be gift enough! A lot more festive attitude than my stay at home husband's:" Now that you're done with exams, you can pick this sister up at school and take that sister to...."</p>
<p>Cake and root beer floats??? My son would think he'd died and gone to heaven if you add those sugar cookies with the pink icing on them, the ones they sell at Sam''s.</p>
<p>Son had a trip to McD's for bk-fast the day after last AP completed (& went to school late--needed a sleep-in).</p>
<p>Like the root-beer float idea--that's cute!</p>
<p>Cake and floats it is! I think the surprise of it will be cool for them too.</p>
<p>I'm suffering from mommy guilt this morning. Every day my junior has had AP exams, I've made sure he had a heathy breakfast with lots of protein. This morning my freshman is taking the AP Human Geography exam. She's so together that I've hardly given a thought to her AP exam (plus it's only one instead of 5.) You can see where this is going....it's almost time to take her to school and she says, "Thanks for fixing me a healthy breakfast." Yes, I forgot to do that for her. (Her dad did it, however, whick is apparently unsatisfactory since I did it for her brother.) Jeez!</p>
<p>Missypie, I did the same thing. My junior D had four exams (Gov't, Calc, Bio and Comp) - her senior brother had one (Enviro). D got good breakfasts because she gets up cheerfully in the am, while grouchy brother has a major case of senioritis and a.m. attitude!</p>
<p>On another note, what are your children who have a heavy AP load doing in their classes now? D has "projects" but is basically twiddling her thumbs at this point.</p>
<p>That's one of my big issues with AP exams...I don't mind the rigor of the course work but I hate them rushing through it, then filling up time afterward. I think they'll do good enrichment activities in English and History. I think they'll surf the web in Comp Sci. I HOPE that in Bio she throws them a few softball projects so he can get his grade up.</p>
<p>D's APUSHist class is watching "educational videos" the rest of the year, while APChem is still catching up on labs! Stress level has gone way down (until I mentioned June 7th SAT is less than 3 weeks away)</p>
<p>My son is taking the SAT II in math on the 7th but I feel like I need to give him a few more stress free days before I bring that up. The APUSH teacher has offered two extra credit projects that he definitely needs to do.</p>
<p>Did you all get the SAT II books? Son took AP US History & insists he doesn't need SAT II books ("it's all the same dates!"). He's taking Math I and since he's gone through precal and prob & stat, he feels he 'knows it all,' already.</p>
<p>Not sure if that's accurate, though...</p>
<p>If you think you can get your son to read it, I'd get a US History SAT II prep book. My son took the May SAT II in History. He didn't do any special prep since it was less than a week before the APUSH exam and he was prepping for that. The group of kids from our school what took it the same day all came out of it saying that there were a couple of things on the test that they'd never heard of.</p>
<p>Thanks, missypie. I've already bought the ACT book, AP books (& returned them when he barely cracked them). Maybe he can go to Borders & just skim through it to get a sense of any difference between AP & SAT II. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>My daughter had the same experience as missypie's son with APUSH/SAT II. We bought the College Board's big blue book w/ all subject tests in it. Not sure that she really used it, since she started her test prep the night before the exam!</p>
<p>We did purchase the review books for the SATIIs- just having the practice tests was worth it. While my D didn't review, per se, she did do the practice tests under timed conditions. That really boosted her confidence, even though she'd spent a fair amount of time preparing for the AP exam previously. Different tests, different tricks.</p>
<p>Good points...even just a slight difference in question style, etc. could impact the test results. Hopefully son & I can go to Borders today, have coffee & have him at least skim the SAT II books.</p>