Homeschool record keeping and the various types of homeschool forms although not the most exciting topic is certainly one of the more important ones.
Don’t leave these decisions on which home school forms and record keeping supplies you will be using until the last minute.
Some of the basic types of record keeping for homeschooling are traditional grading, daily planners, portfolios, or journaling.
The one that will work for you will depend on not only your preference and needs, but more importantly by the laws governing home schooling in your state.
Your homeschool record keeping should begin immediately. Don’t wait to begin! Make this a part of your home school daily schedule. Don’t wait and try to recap all that has occurred over the past few days or even a week’s time. Make a home school planner a part of your home school materials list. There are even some very good home school software programs that include forms and record keeping.
One of which is the Year Round Preschool Lesson Planner.
This planner features plenty of space for writing notes about student activities and for recording student contact information. Handy extras include reference charts for physical and academic stages of development as well as information about multiple intelligences. If you are looking for homeschool and classroom organizational ideas, take a look at Classroom Organization & Management.
Classroom Organization and Management is a teacher resource book to help you as a parent organize and manage everything for your young child. This is a valuable resource that offers ideas and strategies to create a positive environment and manage your classroom. If you’re in need of record and planning books and forms, the Perfect Plan Book and The Professional Planner For Teachers are excellent choices.
The weekly planner includes anecdotal record sheets for individuals and classes. You can easily use the Professional Planner for Teachers as a home school resource to help you organize your child’s home school by the week. It also contains weekly student challenges for both primary and intermediate levels.
I have a homeschool schedule / homeschool calendar that I used that I has various monthly activities, days, arts and crafts and such that might help give you some ideas for your home school schedule and planning. Just click on this monthly homeschool activities link.
Your child’s report card is a manifestation of your homeschool record keeping and your daily planning. Also keeping good records and lessons plans enable you to look back on what you did the semester before and when you did it.
This will enable you to make natural segue ways into each level of your homeschooling curriculum and allow to keep notes on what worked well and perhaps what you need to improve upon. Teacher Created Resources (one of my absolute most favorite resources for teaching materials) has a wide variety of supplemental material and you can find it by grade level! If you are just starting on your first child’s home school education, good record keeping will be a huge head start when you once again prepare for your next one!
Good homeschool records are a source of confidence that you can use if your child wants to get involved in any activity that may require you to produce records of their qualifications or educational level. And good records can also be used to create a needed transcript for educational consideration down the road.
So don’t wait, don’t put it off, and don’t procrastinate! Good homeschool record keeping is a must. And will greatly enhance your chances of success.
