High School: Tasks you NEED to do to Wrap Up Your Year

[@velviteenrabbitt]

Unbelievably helpful. Thanks for your generosity in sharing x

[@TheHomeschoolBreakroom]

I'm so glad you found it useful!

[@gbcflower]

Thank you for this information. My oldest is finishing 9th grade so it's a perfect time for me to begin these things.

[@TheHomeschoolBreakroom]

High school is such a wild ride! They seem so OLD when they start it. And then, when they're graduating, you realize they were really just babies.

[@annai157]

Great video to help remember all those little details! We're going through this process now. Contrary to popular wisdom, our university of choice wanted a copy of the diploma rather than a copy of the transcript. I found it is quite easy (and 100% legal and legitimate) to make your own on Canva. You don't need to pay a service to do this for you - unless you want to. It took me about 1/2 hour - and I'd never used Canva before. (as for transcripts, some places want them notarized within 10 days of submission - no notarizing in advance may not be helpful).

[@TheHomeschoolBreakroom]

I NEVER thought to make one in Canva! Genius. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a school wanting the diploma over a transcript. Interesting! It would be so much easier if colleges standardized what they want from homeschoolers!! If they can do it for public & private high schools, surely they can figure it out for us.

[@Homeschoolology]

Thank you for sharing! This is very helpful.

[@TheHomeschoolBreakroom]

You have one in high school? Or heading into it?

[@Homeschoolology]

@@TheHomeschoolBreakroom my oldest is entering 9th grade!

[@TheHomeschoolBreakroom]

Fun! High school withy first was such a fun ew adventure. It felt like we were starting homeschool all over again

[@Homeschoolology]

@TheHomeschoolBreakroom Joy! Lol. Just kidding. We are excited.

[@TheHomeschoolBreakroom]

@@Homeschoolology Oh, but I meant it in all the best ways. That excited feeling of embarking on something new? Discovering new curriculum & resources? Watching them bloom in all new ways?

[@ourfamilyvideos7283]

Love this AND a video on apps/ things to do when sending kiddo away for college…not a tech mom but feel her love of tacos, milk and yarn may need to supplemented..she’s not wanting to take car first year

[@TheHomeschoolBreakroom]

Oh, things to do before college would be a good one. I didn't realize she was going to head off to college after all! Wow.

[@ourfamilyvideos7283]

@@TheHomeschoolBreakroom yes…it’s unconventional but a God thing for sure. Would love to see what apps we should put in her phone,etc that would facilitate her…she doesn’t want car first year

[@TheHomeschoolBreakroom]

I'm working on a video about things like that!

[@Elizabeth-Reads]

Thanks for this, Tricia. I have a rising 9th grader, and this is the first year I feel panicked about schooling! Like suddenly everything matters… I see you have a template by subject. My daughter’s taken high school level ELA and science this year, and alg 1 and geometry in 7th and 8th. Would it be kosher to just list those by subject, without saying the year, so that she’d only need to do 2 more years of science and math in high school? (She’s good at science and math, but not a STEM oriented kid.) It’s kind of fudging, since they’d assume the classes were done in high school, but I’d love for her to have more time before college to volunteer and pursue her passions,

[@TheHomeschoolBreakroom]

That's exactly why I have an option by subject or by year. And it's definitely not fudging -- those are high school level courses! Now, for my daughter, she ended up with enough math credits (even without algebra 1), so I just left algebra 1 off her by-year transcripts. A couple of colleges wanted it broken down by year (rather than by subject). If she can take algebra 2, obviously she's done algebra 1. But, even by year, some families will just include it in a separate 'earned prior to high school' column. Definitely make time for her to be a well-rounded student/individual.

[@Elizabeth-Reads]

@@TheHomeschoolBreakroom Thanks so much, this (like all your videos!) has been so helpful to me. ❤