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Recess!

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We finished our semester just in time to attend Recess, a homeschool conference in South Asia for American homeschoolers.  We had all been looking forward to it for months!  It's been two years since it was held, and it was wonderful to see friends and hang out! This is a great opportunity for the kids, because it allows them to have their standardized testing.  This just helps me to know that we're on track.  Although, I only get percentile points.  If they totally bomb a section, say, math, there's no way I can know which specific skills they are not getting, or if the test covers material our curriculums haven't yet.  So in that respect, it's not very helpful!  :)  But, overall, it's just nice to know they're pretty much on target (or above it in some instances). Luke got to do a project, something having to do with the 1980's.  He chose to do a report on the discovery of the Titanic ship in 1986.  He built a Lego model of the Titanic, and create