[HSList] high school

[Anthony/Judi Giannette]

Amy,
Maybe now I can bring this up with the Mrs. to get our record keeping
more up to date. Presently we are recording weekly by topic, rather than
actual subject being taught. Along the lines of a status board at the
moment.

We were thinking about making a more elaborate record, but became
discouraged by the apparent work load to accomplish the task. Any
thoughts, ideas?

>> I have never given grades at all in our hs. I keep track
>> of percentages in L's (she's 12) math work, but not even that for
>> R and P. However, now that we're at "middle school" level and
>> even "high school" in some areas, I'm wondering about doing
>> some more intensive record-keeping.
>>
>> Our local community college has a "Running Start" program,
>> where a student may take college-level classes that satisfy
>> both college and high-school grad. requirements. To be
>> eligible, the student must be a "junior" in high school, and of
>> course I would have to show this somehow. I have the feeling
>> that my scribbled-over grid sheets will not do the trick. :-)

[Amy E Beckel]

On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 15:14:28 EDT gian...@juno.com (Anthony/Judi
Giannette) writes:
>> Amy,
>> Maybe now I can bring this up with the Mrs. to get our record
keeping more up to date. Presently we are recording weekly by topic,
rather than actual subject being taught. Along the lines of a status
board at the moment.
We were thinking about making a more elaborate record, but became
discouraged by the apparent work load to accomplish the task. Any
thoughts, ideas? <<

Well, I can tell you what I do now . . . of course the more children
you keep records for the more work it is to do it!
Didn't the Colfaxes have their children keep journals themselves?
This might be a good idea. We do have journals but more for
personal writing than for record-keeping.

Anyway: I used my trusty ol' Word version 2 to make a grid. Days
of the week go across the top; subjects go down the side, subdivided
into 3 rows per subject (because I have 3 children!). Then I can write
in what I expect L to be doing in Math on Wednesday, or R and P to be
studying in science on Thursday. Several subjects we study all together
which makes it a little simpler. I find that if I plan too far ahead I
spend
a lot of time erasing, because we went either faster or slower than I had
planned, which is fine with me--this is a home school, after all <g>.
We might simply get side-tracked into other areas of, say, science,
and never get to page 97 at all.

At the end of the day, I try to remember to write down other things we
did--
P baked muffins and doubled the recipe, L did ballet exercises for
an hour, R finished _The Bronze Bow_ and started on _The Hobbit_.

I keep reports, rough drafts of letters, other writing projects. The
kids
each have a science notebook in which they keep notes, observations,
experiment results. They also keep their maps, spelling, writing, and
whatever else they are attached to in their own notebooks. L keeps
her Algebra 2 papers and I write the % in the weekly grid.

There are many planners on the market, but some of them are
quite heavy on keeping grades, test results, even attendance
(Please excuse Susie from home . . . she was sick) (<g>).

This week I'll be talking to someone from that "Running Start"
program I mentioned. I hope to get some helpful info on how
to show that someone is a "high-school junior" without being
too rigid or having to duplicate the public school at home.

Good luck with your own paper chase!!

Amy :-)
bec...@juno.com