Homeschool Ideas
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You may use homeschool record keeping software but you still need to find a way to keep track of your childrens’ work and write down what they have done. Here are a few easy and simple ways that I have found to make homeschool record keeping a breeze. 1. Get a folder for each child and place it on a prominent book shelf in your house. Don’t stick it in a drawer or behind a bunch of books. Make it without apparent effort accessible to everyone. I use a dissimilar color for each child. This makes it even posing no difficulty to access the folders. When my children have finished a page or workbook, I just place the item in the folder. The most essential percentage of this is that you ALWAYS put the date on each piece of paper you put into this folder. You may use manilla folders or regular pocket folders if you like. 2. Take pictures of projects if you don’t have a place to store them until the end of the year. Take pictures of any field trips you take or any homeschool coop or group activenesses they participate in. 3. Find a spiral notebook or 3 ring binder. Place this on the same bookshelf where you have your folders for each child. Designate 1 page for chapter books read, another page for field trips taken and yet another page for projects or experiments completed. When you finish reading a chapter book to your children or you go on a field trip or you finish any type of project or experiment, record that on the page in your notebook. If your state requires that you keep track of days or hours, you may use this notebook for that action too. When you get to the end of your school year you will have all your childrens’ finished school work in one place. If you have your child assessed, all you will have to do is go through their one folder and discerned the papers into piles by subject. If you have been consistent with putting the dates on each paper, then you will be competent to coordinate each subject from the beginning of the year to the end. Your notebook will be handy in proving that you in truth did a great deal of things this year. You may show the notebook to your assessor or write the info on another sheet of paper for each child. |
