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Bridget
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Our state has no requirements for reporting so I have not really kept any formal records of our schooling.
My oldest will be in 9th grade this year so I need to start keeping high school records. He will have some classes in a tutorial program but I will be the one keeping a transcript and recording grades.
I am downloading the high school forms from Donna Young's site. I will keep samples of writing, reports and projects and tests.
What else? How do others keep records?
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I keep a spiral notebook of all the things the children do from altar serving to musical performances to jobs. I write down the dates, the title of the event and the amount of time put in that event. That way I don't forget later on what they have done. Then I can easily tally up community service hours, work hours, and whatever else they have accomplished.
I also keep track of how much time per day my highschooler spends on each subject. Language arts may be one day 2 hours and on another day one. I count Religion as language arts along with writing and latin. At the end of each week , I can tally the hours that he has spent on each subject. at the end of the year, if he has the 120 hours then he gets 1 credit;)
I also, as I'm sure a lot of ladies do here, keep a log of what books are read, whether pertaining to science, history, religion, etc.
Hope this helps.
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Oh, thank you, Marianne. I hadn't thought to record the hours of extra curricular activities and service things yet.
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This article deals with unschooling record keeping but has many helpful tips on counting hours/credits, esecially for se4vice and extra curricular activities.
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I have just started using the CM organizer. It is an online organizing tool.
I have put chores, cooking, even working on our family blog on it.
I was going to keep track of each hour that he worked on each subject, but 1)It would take too much time and 2)I don't think that this is really accurate, and I'll tell you why.
In public school, they may have a 50 minute period each day, but they are not working that whole time. It counts as a credit hour for them, though. In History class, for instance, they may read a story together and then write a paragraph about the story. If my son can do this in 20 minutes, and then move on to the next subject, it is going to count. He shouldn't have to do 2-3 classes of work to their 1. On the other hand, if it takes longer, it doesn't matter either. He will get credit for that day's work.
What I am doing is using the CM Organizer to show that he worked on these subjects every day. When he completes the books and activities that are his *course*, he gets the credit.
This requires me to plan out the course to make sure it is enough, of course.
For religion, he is going to have confimation classes once per week. Three days per week, he will read a section from Catholicism for Dummies and narrate a paragraph. Two days per week, he will read a Chapter from A Catholic Yankee in King James Court and narrate a paragraph. We will read one chapter from the gospels per day and discuss it as a family. When all of these things are finished, he will get 1 credit in Religious Studies. If he finishes *really* early in the year, working steadily, I may add another book or two. I'm just not sure yet how this is going to map out.
I hope this helps!
In Christ,
Leocea
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