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JenniferS
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Posted: Nov 10 2006 at 8:42am \| IP Logged

Hello. I am new here. My dh and I have been homeschooling for almost two years now. DH is a public school librarian and I used to teach at our parish school.(Just a little background info.) Dh is very concerned about a transcript for the kids, as in when they choose to go to college they'll need one. We enrolled in Seton this year, and although I have liked some things about it, I really don't want to use it next year. The only thing is, dh wants to know what to do about a transcript. I did keep grades last year. Is that enough for a transcript, or is there anything more official you all do? Now, my kids won't be college bound for quite sometime(our oldest is 9), so I am not as worried about this as dh. But it is important to him, so I feel like it is something I need to be more serious about. How do you all do this????

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Posted: Nov 11 2006 at 2:19pm \| IP Logged

Dear Jennifer,
You could keep grades and also some samples of the childrens' work, also lists of books they read and what course materials you made use of. If they did any testing, that would be another thing to preserve "for the record". Also documents of any real life experiences -- I make notes of music lessons, seasonal sports, field trips, travelling, and even unique family circumstances like birth of new baby, or hospitalization, or helping with little brothers' therapy.

I don't think any colleges look at grade school transcripts so you're probably just trying to keep records in order to get into the habit and also so you have an easily accessible record of what the kids have done.

Some people keep time logs of the work the kids have done.

There are a lot of nice homeschool forms here at CHASE that might give you some ideas -- though using all of them would be overkill I think! But you could figure out what kind best represent the kind of homeschooling you are doing, and build your system on that.

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JenniferS
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Posted: Nov 11 2006 at 2:28pm \| IP Logged

Thank you. I think I was making it harder than it needed to be.

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Posted: Nov 11 2006 at 8:41pm \| IP Logged

It also depends on your state - in our case, we are a church school state so homeschoolers form a cover school. Most cover schools here will send out a high school transcript to colleges. It is not hard to create one. I'd talk to other homeschoolers in your state and see how it is done there. It never hurts to plan ahead.

Janet

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