Description from homeschooloasis.com
This 2-hour seminar is on tape and comes complete with a 52-page set of handouts, complete with reproducible masters and filled-in samples!
Covers 10 reasons for record keeping and a chart to help you determine your own needs so you don't do any more or less than is optimally beneficial to you. Forms for minimal planning, organizing of your children and their jobs and minimal “table time” work, reading with Mom, various ways to make it look official – which it is! – I just help you translate your “real life learning” into “academicese.”
My points of impact:
God has an individual plan for each of us, so don't compare.
Scholarships look for service. Document how your child is involved in service to others.
Balance privilege with responsibility; gentle “accountability”
Don't sacrifice your time with your kids to keep records
Create a booklet-form on right side, explanation on left side
8 day lesson plan-2×4 days=2 weeks, but it could go up to one month, depending on field trips and other activities. Just good to have a plan on what to do next.
School district 'Instructional Objectives'-tells what objectives per grade.
Be careful about introducing things too early.
Create lesson plans Sunday afternoon while still in spiritual afterglow of church
Lesson plan take about 45 minutes to create.
In High School-'War report'-look up all wars and document
Daily Report, Job Chart and checkpoints/point allotment and accumulation (privilege w/ responsibility)
Make a sign for the door for neighbor kids to know not to knock when kids are unavailable.
'The great American Bathroom Book'-terrific to whet the appetite for English Lit.
Have family create a Family Newsletter/Newspaper
Have school colors, name-create vision and unity
Permanent Record-Immunization records, certificates of promotion, report cards, test scores, awards of merit and accomplishment