End of Trimester

Idaho Falls High School incorporates a trimester instead of a semester system that I am used to. Ben and David completed the 1st tri on Thursday. Instead of having 6 class periods in a day, there are 5. Classes last 1 hour and 15 minutes. They have been celebrating now for 2 days and will start 2nd tri on Monday.

Ben was pushing hard to earn a 4.0 after slacking off a little in a couple of classes during the soccer season. He had to play catch up in honor's English for the last month and was moaning about having to finish 200 pages of Jane Eyre in a week. A's had to be earned on all the book's quizzes, tests, and papers in order to accomplish his goal. He had to get high A's on both biology finals (the teachers test and the state's ECA test) to squeak by. The English "A" was captured, but biology still remains in question. Stay tuned.....

David's final week didn't seem as intense. He did put in some hours studying for American Government and English. He endured Economics, which obviously has not been one of his favorite classes. The teacher is a really nice lady, but Dad was one of her students 32 years ago when she first started teaching and she is understandable weary and ready to retire. He has really enjoyed choir and weight lifting. His final in weight lifting was to improve "X" amount of percentage in the amount they could lift (I am not sure what that was). He scored 204 consecutive situps, maxed at 230 lbs at the bench press, and did 10 repetitions of 450 on the sled press for legs.

He will have Trigonometry and American Government for core classes next tri along with choir, weight lifting, and seminary. He will have early release since his math class is 0 hour.

Ben takes Algebra IIB, Honor's English, History, Men's choir, and seminary. Both he and David have seminary 4th hour. I wonder if they will get the same teacher. They have 3 seminary teachers. They only take seminary 2 of the 3 trimesters so one or two teachers will teach the second half of Old Testament, another(s) will teach 1st half. Neither boy had seminary last tri.