<p>Classof2015 I think you have to buy a loft bed frame to do that. Our house has a bunch of sloped ceilings, so I don’t think we can do that, but it makes a lot of sense in other circumstances. google it, you’ll find lots of options. </p>
<p>My youngest S (10yo) is swapping rooms with my oldest S (17yo) who is a rising college freshman. But not right away. Oldest S is working at camp all summer, so not available to go through his stuff and help move it or decide what he can trash, etc…</p>
<p>I’m not sure about moving furniture, as our rooms are all oddly shaped and with the sloping ceilings, what is in each bedroom is kind of customized to the room rather than the kid. So for the most part, I think the furniture will stay where it is. Haven’t really worked that out yet.</p>
<p>Cayuga: Self-studying science has been a challenge, but I think she will pass her tests. I asked about the summer reading today, and got snapped at: “I can’t even think about that yet!” Luckily, we are in Michigan so school doesn’t start until after Labor Day. She’ll have all of August to read and write (if necessary…)</p>
<p>We told our youngest ('14) that when we move later this year, he will get the larger of the two bedrooms since his older brother is at college and only “visits” about five weeks out of the year. </p>
<p>BamaMomof3: Things will get better regarding all that dorm stuff you had to purchase. After the initial hit, you won’t need to purchase towels, linens, bedspreads, etc. Clothing, on the other hand, is something different. My oldest loves to shop for clothing. The younger son has much simpler tastes … and is much better on the wallet.</p>
<p>Blueiguana–the on-line math course has been a big mistake this summer. The program keeps crashing endlessly. We have tried installing it on 3 computers…are trying the 4th today. It seems to have been written for an old operating system so Dear H is hunting for a copy of one of our old systems. We are dealing with EPGY re it. We may be asking for our $ back. Aaarrrggghhh</p>
<p>@ Cayuga - So, so sorry to hear this! S3’s was virtual high school through our county. He logged onto a county server to do lessons, participate in discussions via posting on a common page, take tests, review, etc. He didn’t have to download anything. I can imagine your family is finding it VERY frustrating! One of our considerations in taking the course during the second semester despite a lot of advise to do it during the summer was if he had any issues either technically or academically it would be much, much easier to get assistance through virtual high school and his own high school during the regular calendar year. Your resources are just greater at that time from administrative, to guidance, to supplemental tutoring he could have gotten through the National Honor Society if it came to it.</p>
<p>I hope you are able to get some assistance and get it resolved. Good luck!</p>
<p>Well, all of you doing the driver’s ed thing this summer . . . I now have a driver. Yep, got a school permit and it is now legal for d2 to drive herself, unsupervised, to the high school and other extracurricular activities w/in the district.</p>
<p>Blueiguana, thanks for your sympathy. H did get it installed on an old operating system and it is working better. It still crashes, but only once per day. The tech support guy at EPGY seems to be inundated with complaints about the program. EPGY missed the boat on this one. Our S is scheduled to take pre-calc next fall, based on his successfully passing this geomietry course, so the pressure is on. Poor guy. Thanks for your support.</p>
<p>Took D2 to the local Colleges That Change Lives event. No matter what kind of student your kid is, this is a great low-stress, humor-filled introduction to the entire process. You can see if they’re going to be in your area at [Colleges</a> That Change Lives | Changing Lives, One Student at a Time](<a href=“http://ctcl.org%5DColleges”>http://ctcl.org)</p>
<p>"Well, all of you doing the driver’s ed thing this summer . . . I now have a driver. Yep, got a school permit and it is now legal for d2 to drive herself, unsupervised, to the high school and other extracurricular activities w/in the district. " OrdinaryLives</p>
<p>Wow! That was quick. Class of ‘14 is growin’ up.</p>
<p>Our D got her temps and is trying to find time that works to get her 50 hours of supervised in car driving time. Between tennis practice, tryouts and babysitting and our schedules, it is not going very quickly. (Which is fine with AvonMom and I. ) She has about a month until school starts and it appears that she will not get all the practice time that she thought she would get earlier this summer. With a winter birthday and lousy winter weather and poor driving conditions here, she most likely won’t be on the road by herself until next spring. :)</p>
<p>^^^^LOL! D just got her permit yesterday even though her birthday was in March. There just wasn’t enough time to get to go and take the test between then and now.</p>
<p>Well, school started. Ok, not classes, but music. Seems summer is over. The pools close for the season on Sunday. Too bad it’s still blasted hot.</p>
<p>Music is just half days this week. Next week, it’s 8-8. Students are already able to sign up for lockers, too. The trick is getting to the school with your locker partner. Last year, she shared with D1, and got a coveted spot on the senior hallway. Seems she liked that because she’s found herself another senior to partner with this year. </p>
<p>The next three weeks could get weird as the kids try to share the car that d1 has pretty much monopolized. Gotta love sibling squabbling.</p>
<p>It’s interesting to see what is coveted at different schools. My kids give up their lockers. There is a shortage so admin is so glad to have them. The kids never have time to go. Also with block scheduling (even/odd days) they only have 4 classes a day. It’s so much easier to carry everything with you. No more lost papers, left homework, etc. It works for them.</p>
<p>We don’t start until after Labor Day. Good thing…S3 is dragging out summer reading.</p>
<p>We start after labor day as well and I’m already tired of nagging about summer reading. It’s so frustrating because she only has two relatively short novels to read but she’s reading everything else but them. Last year she put it off so long that she was scrambling at the end to finish (and actually didn’t) and promised she learned her lesson and wouldn’t do it again. </p>
<p>Marching band sectionals started and band camp is in two weeks. The end of summer is in sight… :(</p>
<p>S turned 16 in July but has not even opened the drivers ed manual. His summer reading sits on his bed side table, collecting dust.:mad: His geometry is going well, his texas hold 'em efforts, not so well:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Well kiddo2 has been driving on a permit for a few months—
Did study the manual for the written test which had to be taken at DMV. Actually I think there were two tests, one on signage, and one on road rules. idk</p>
<p>Finished summer reading–though I will be nudging kiddo2 to review before school. Recently kiddo2 has been recovering from some surgery so beyond watching lots of tv and hydrating, we have not asked for kiddo to do anything else.</p>
<p>First week of school, kiddo will miss 2 days to join us to take the older sibling to college.
Lots of transitions in this house. </p>
<p>School has started here! D2 is now at the big HS (9th grade was in the MS). She did manage to finish her summer assignments: two novels, a paper on one of them and 6 chapters of APUSH outlined and questions answered, but there was a last minute push to get it all polished.</p>
<p>Marching band camp was intense for her, but she enjoyed it. Problem we have now is that she has an audition this weekend for the Youth Symphony…on her primary instrument, french horn. After two weeks of learning new fingering for her marching instrument, she is working to get her horn skills back to where they were before the summer break.</p>
<p>This weekend we take her big sis to college, but she is opting to stay home (2.5 hr drive). Probably just as well since little brother wants to go and we will probably need all the space we can get in the car!</p>
<p>BI~Most of the kids at our HS don’t bother with lockers either. We are on a full block schedule (only 4 classes each semester) and the school is so large they may never be in the building their classes are in. Band students luck out since they reserve lockers in the band wing for them, but I think D is only using it to store a change of clothing for marching practice.</p>
<p>Now to get D1 up and working on her packing list!</p>
<p>Wow, Bamamom our schools are on very different schedules! S just finished his summer class (which he hated) last Friday. School starts after Labor Day.</p>
<p>No one uses lockers at his school, but then the only thing that ever gets stolen is food and that’s considered fair game.</p>
<p>Wow - schools are really so different! All the kids at both high schools my DS11 and DD14 attend(ed) used their lockers. For DS, the school banned carrying backpacks/bags around school due to space limitations (too hard with kids and backpacks passing in the hallways). DD goes to a smaller school and they all use their lockers also. I don’t think they want to be carrying all their books around all day!</p>
<p>We finally had DS’s graduation party last weekend and he heads off to college on the 30th, the same day my DD will be helping with Freshman Orientation at her school. Luckily his school is only about 2 hours away and as long as I can figure out how to get DD home from school that afternoon (or have her stay after with a friend), we’ll be all set. Just have to finish up the shopping, packing, shopping, etc. It will be sad to see him go but since we don’t seem to see him much and he’s so happy about going off, that will make it easier. Now when she leaves …</p>
<p>DD14 has just finished up four weeks of morning theatre camps. One week of actually attending camp on her own and three weeks volunteering helping out her former/favorite 5th grade teacher who was teaching the camp. It was a great experience for her and I loved that she experienced monitoring the kids backstage during their Friday performances. As she tried to teach them, whispering is talking and you get in trouble for doing it backstage! She’s learned quite a bit since she’s been doing musical theatre since she was six years old.</p>
<p>After finally reading all the Harry Potter books for the first time (finished the last one at about 9:00 the night of the premiere at a HP party dressed as Luna!) she moved onto her summer reading books. Read The Hunger Games as her choice book and chose the project to turn a chapter into a script - no surprises there! Now she’s back to the required reading book which is a lot slower and requires 20-30 journal entries about the book as she goes along. Of course, she’s decided to try to learn a song on the piano lately so that’s taken priority over the reading. She’s doing pretty well given that she hasn’t taken piano in about 3 years!</p>
<p>I’m looking forward to next week when she’ll have a little more free time and maybe we can get to the beach if the weather cooperates. I always read on the beach so I’m sure some can get done there! School starts for her the 31st and I’m sure she’ll be ready by then, but I just hope it’s not a mad rush and she gets to enjoy the last week before band camp starts and the little play she’s in goes on.</p>
<p>As for driving, she has to wait until next spring when she turns 16 to get her permit and then the license is six month after that. She’s just wishing that she’d have her license for next summer. Her best friend turns 16 this weekend and will have her license befor DD even gets her permit! She won’t be able to drive DD anywhere though because they have to have their license for 6 months before they can drive any non-family members. Love that!</p>
) She has about a month until school starts and it appears that she will not get all the practice time that she thought she would get earlier this summer. With a winter birthday and lousy winter weather and poor driving conditions here, she most likely won’t be on the road by herself until next spring. :)</p>