I just wanted to remind everyone that we don’t have any records of your children’s work. Even though we have My EP Assignments now, we are not keeping any records. Even though technically we could see that your child is on Day 34 of Math 2, we couldn’t officially make a record of that because we have no way of knowing what work is actually being completed.

When the students do an online activity or take an online quiz, there is no record of what was done or how well they did. You need to check in with your child to make sure they are completing their work. You can have them take a screenshot if you want them to prove their scores or that they finished an assignment.

We are not a school, not a program. We’re just a homeschool curriculum. Please don’t list us on your forms for the school district as the school your child is attending. We get contacted by schools often asking for verification that a student is attending or asking for their records. We can’t provide them with those things. You are your child’s teacher and you are the school administrator! You can make records for your child and turn them into the school if they are being requested.

Our courses do have course descriptions and reading lists on course pages to help you with your records and you can even point people to the site to see what the assignments were for the courses you used. We do suggest you keep at least minimal records, something from each subject at least once a quarter. We have reminders in our courses about that to help you out. You can keep written work, but you can also take screen shots of online activities.

 

I’m sorry that I wasn’t prepared for the surge of new people starting My EP Assignments this week. I’m wet behind the ears with a lot of this stuff. At first we were lumping all reports of problems together, but now we’re starting to sift through them and seeing that the one fix we applied earlier in the week wasn’t covering all of it.

We increased our capacity in one area but realized there’s yet another we need to work on. To that end, we will be moving to another server tonight it looks like. That will help with anyone getting DNS server not found messages.

We won’t have that switched before tonight, so if you can hold off on school until later in the afternoon, it would ease our load. This week it seemed around 11AM people start having trouble with getting that error about a DNS server not being found. It just means traffic is too heavy at that time. That’s what will be fixed tonight.

It shouldn’t be asking you to re-log in, only after you have closed the browser page and come back in fresh, not in the middle of working on the site. Also, you shouldn’t be having a Student 1 appear mysteriously. Those are things you can let us know about if they persist. We’re working on figuring them out.

My EP is supposed to make it Easier Peasier for you, so we’re doing all we can to get this going smoothly.

Math 6 – Step 2 – Biology – Ancient History Theme

Step 2 (Math 6)

      

The Workbook is the offline course. There are no printables for Step 2. There are many optional worksheets in Step 2 if you wanted them, so if you are someone who wants those, consider getting the Workbook to have those handy, as well as extra practice for every lesson.

The lessons for this book are in the Workbook. The answer key is in the store on the Math page. The Parent’s Guide has the images for the student worksheets with their answers filled in and helps for getting through the lessons, how to approach questions, etc. This is just like the Math 5 – Step 1 book.

This is typically for our 6th and 7th graders.

Biology and Ancient History Theme

These can be found in the store and at in the top section on their respective course pages. These are the worksheets used in the online courses. There are no offline versions of these courses. These are just to save you from printing out 100+ pages. The Ancient History Theme printables book includes the few music printables that are in that theme. There are no art printables in this theme.

       

Biology

• Levels 1 – 4 print
• Levels 1 – 4 buy
• Levels 5 – 8 print
• Levels 5 – 8 buy

Ancient History

• Levels 1 – 4 buy
• Levels 1- 4 print
• Levels 5 – 8 buy
• Levels 5 – 8 print 

As always, they are priced low to try to save you from printing. We’re just trying to make it easy!

 

 

 

It’s that time of year again. Actually, I almost forgot about our EP-tees this year. Ordering is open for TWO WEEKS. The last day is the 19th (May 19th). The shirts will be shipped directly to you. The cost is $15.

ORDER

In one week I’ll start accepting short story submissions for our first EP competition. Submissions will be accepted from April 15th to May 15th and can be made by any homeschool student, so spread the word! I’m planning cash prizes for eight winners.

Details are on the site.