<p>Hi,
New to this section as I’ve been catching up on everything I should have been doing for my senior. Getting a jump on 2nd student. </p>
<p>D is at camp just now, back this week. She rarely uses a locker as its not convenient and with an A/B day schedule easy enough to just carry your things with you. I’ll have to ask what she does in the winter.</p>
<p>Do you guys all have summer assignments? D14 only had a reading assignment with an organizational chart to ready for an essay at the beginning of school year. Other than that, not much. She is taking an AP class next year, but nothing specific to preparing for that.</p>
<p>S’s school chooses one book that the entire school reads and then he has to read one more for language arts. No summer work for anything else he’s taking including the AP class.</p>
<p>Space constraints, huh? Backpacks are more likely to be banned at my kids’ high school because the administration is worried about concealed weapons.</p>
<p>S has two books to read, I think he is done with one. He sprained his ankle at football practice so perhaps he can catch up. Yeah, let’s go with that. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Our HS has kids leave back packs in their lockers. They get back once or twice a day to switch books. </p>
<p>S has his drivers ed test book, but he hasn’t been in a rush to take the test, which he must do to get his permit.</p>
<p>MY S14 had to read Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and write journal entries for his AP English language course. None of his other courses had summer assignments. Good thing since he hasn’t been too motivated. I’m getting a little tired of nagging. I hope he gets it done in time to do a decent job. Since there won’t be any other sophomores in the class, I don’t want him to stand out in a negative way.</p>
<p>At S’s small private school, the kids just drop the backpacks and athletic bags near whatever building they’re in and pick them up whenever. I had to go back on graduation day this year to get his laptop. It wasn’t the only one in the office.</p>
<p>For summer homework, he has two books to read and a math packet. He just printed it last night; the school does request that the kids do it at the end of the summer so it’s fresh. His school starts in two weeks.</p>
<p>It has been a busy summer with driver’s ed, plus soccer and programming video games. Pretty much his ideal summer except for the driver’s ed. I give him points for common sense as he doesn’t seem too eager to drive.</p>
<p>Next week we’re taking his sister to college. He didn’t come on any of our “scouting” trips so this will be the first time he “really sees” a college campus. It’s probably good timing for him to start thinking about where he might fit in… but I hope he doesn’t think about it too much for another couple of years. ;)</p>
<p>Wow, summer has flown by @ breakneck speed! DD enjoyed Choate immensely and she cried with her friends as we packed the car on the last day. An amazing experience. She didnt want to come home.She has even started looking into summer programs for the summer of 2012, she says she will no longer spend her summers in New Haven! Which was music to my ears. </p>
<p>She was lucky enough to snag a lab research assistant gig which is a bit sporadic for the month of August and will pick up in the fall…the research is dealing with the breeding, dna extraction and survivorship of sea scallops/the effects of ocean pollution. </p>
<p>She has finally decided to get her summer reading done. School starts on the 30th and I was getting worried that she was procrastinating, but I can’t blame her! Especially seeing that she was in classes for 5 weeks! She also has an assignment due for AP psych that is due on the first day of school.</p>
<p>We are also planning a few college tours in the NY, RI, MA area… not sure if we will be able to make all of the programs that each college has planned… but we will see.</p>
<p>She has had some interest in getting her DL… her school is 6 blocks away and I don’t I want her behind the wheel til she is 17… if she shows more of an interest, then we will have to consider lessons…</p>
<p>Summer reading is all done and the kids had to answer a bunch of questions and email them in to the English teacher. Just finished the second week back at school and DS is back in the swing. His sister is applying to colleges, so it is making an impression.</p>
<p>Ah, NewHaven mom, envy the six block commute. D back from camp, Chinese immersion. Didn’t want to go, now can’t wait to go back. Kids. Also, came back with dad and S12 via several colleges so that’s a good start. Plus, being trapped in the car, finished up her reading - Anthem. School starts next week here. sigh. Will miss the lazy days of summer.</p>
<p>This feels like “the summer that never was.” Most of it seemed focused on getting D11 ready for college. Now that she’s there, S14 promptly relocated all this things to her bathroom. I asked him how he likes being an only child. I got a grunt. </p>
<p>3 weeks to school; 3 books to read; one is open on his bedside table which I take as a good sign.</p>
<p>Right there with you, class of 2015. Seems like all my attention was focused on d1 and getting her off to school (she moves in on Friday). Believe me, she did everything in her power to make sure we were ready to let her go. </p>
<p>D2 started school last thursday. First dance, sponsored by the cheerleaders, is tonight, and as a cheer mom, I pulled cleanup duty. Least I don’t have to watch them dance.</p>
<p>I’m in the group who have younger kiddos getting ignored while getting older siblings off to college. Since D’11 has been gone for a week, we are starting to fall into a nice routine here at home. Although we are missing having a third driver! </p>
<p>Friday night was D’14 first time to perform with the marching band. We went to support her. They didn’t take the field since they are still working (actually I think waiting) on the last part of their routine, but it was just a preseason game. They played in the stands and seemed to have a lot of fun. The highlight of the night for me…D thanking me for making her wear regular sneakers instead of converse. She said they had to stand the whole time and her feet would have never survived :)</p>
<p>And apparently she didn’t flub her audition for the symphony as badly as she thought. She made third chair, right behind two seniors. Of course, I had to point out what might have happened if she had actually practiced the pieces more than the 2-3 times she did. ;)</p>
<p>Sounds like NewHavenCt’s D had a great time this summer and those who’ve gone back to school have gotten off to a good start with music, dance, cheerleading and maybe even finished their summer reading on time. Those of you whose kids start after Labor Day, enjoy these last summer days! I am most sympathetic for those who are back in school and going through Ramadan. We have some young friends who are having a rough couple of weeks of school due to the long fasts. I will be happy for them when Eid comes around.</p>
<p>YES! She has had a very busy summer! She would have preferred more downtime but I was afraid that the old “Idle hands/devils workshop” theory to take hold… she is a good kid but her friends make me scratch my head sometimes! </p>
<p>She flew to Charlotte, NC over the weekend to visit my dad and they have visited UNC, J&W and they are heading to DUKE today… she has yet to finish her AP pysch book/paper which is due next week when school starts… </p>
<p>She emailed her resume to a yogurt shop near Yale’s campus & they called her for an interview… I have mixed feelings about her working during the school year… I dont want anything to interfere with her school work. </p>
<p>Are any of your teens working during the school year? Are they able to juggle everything?</p>
<p>DS started his sophomore year today. Wow, summer was fast.
He has done one of those “once a week paper routes” for the last 2 years but announced that he will stop that in a couple weeks.</p>
<p>He will probably ref peewee basketball leagues for the Y this winter but we don’t have any expectations of him. One thing I did was to stop raising their allowances after 6th grade so they have some motivation to earn their own money and learn some money management.</p>
<p>What are your 2014s taking this year? My son is taking percussion ensemble, physics, AP English lang, AP Spanish lang, AP govt/econ (semester classes), AP statistics and Chinese 1. He took precal last year and was originally signed up for AP calculus but we decided to postpone that a year after a mediocre SAT II math score this spring. He’s finally studying for the September ACT. I’m hoping that a little more study and concentration on math foundations will help before he jumps into calculus next year.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s a tough schedule. My DS will be taking Honors Alg2/Trig, Honors English 10, Honors Chemistry, French 3, CAD/3D design, Art 1, PE and another elective to be named later or community service.</p>
<p>Wow
Schedules vary so much and it is quite interesting. Our school doesn’t even have kids taking APs until Jr yr…</p>
<p>Right now in our house we are adjusting to having taken the older sibling to college this past weekend and the impact of Irene on that.
Kiddo 2 was pretty impressed with the older sibling’s U. It was the first time DH and kiddo2saw the campus since they didn’t go on the college tours/road trips with kiddo1 and me.</p>
<p>Kiddo2 has typical soph schedule of core courses:
math, eng, bio, history and foreign lang. An elective each term and a study hall.
A year round sport 6 days a week, so very busy.</p>
<p>Right now kiddo2 is adjusting to be an “only” child in the house, and I think will come to enjoy more focused attention.
The college search and launching for kiddo1 was often an all consuming topic so kiddo2 is happy that conversations do not include college prep issues, testing, and what my "friends’ on CC think! :D</p>
<p>Same here fogfog. Definitely no AP courses for sophomores. And looks like we could swap schedules English, science, math, history, foreign language, band, elective. Honors/regular, which math, and how far along you are in foreign language depends on the sequencing started in middle school.</p>
<p>I took a new job this summer, and my son decided to transfer to the school where I teach. He loves it. Every day, after cross country practice, he seems to be in a good mood. He has a tough schedule with Honors Spanish III, Honors English (not his favorite subject) and chemistry the first semester, but he seems to like all his classes and teachers. During the second semester, he has pre-calculus, AP World History and dual enrollment Spanish IV. Moving him to a larger school has worked out well – at least that’s what he believes after three or so weeks. He already is looking at clubs, courses for next year and wants to represent the school in cross country and track and field at the regional and state meets.</p>
<p>And he hopes that he can referee some youth soccer games this fall for some extra cash.</p>
