Today, I have the second choice for the 2018 Year Round Homeschool Planning form and I named this color scheme Kelly.
Remember that I create both academic and planning calendars. Though they may seem similar they are not.
When you take a closer look, you’ll see that each calendar has a different purpose. The form I’m sharing today is for you to PLAN your school year and track the number of days and weeks your kids are doing school.
I have all 12 months on it, which means you can start on any month that you begin homeschooling and move forward to plan your year.
Plain calendars (okay, they are not so plain) are just for noting dates and for your reference. I don’t create them to write appointments on OR to track your school.
The form today is to plan your homeschool year with days off, teacher planning days and holidays to take off. It gives you a glimpse of your homeschool year. Plan and track your school year on it.
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I have the second color choice for the 2018 to 2019 Year Round Homeschool Planning form and I named this color scheme Sunset.
Remember that I create both academic and planing calendars. Though they may seem similar they are not.
When you take a closer look, you’ll see that each calendar has a different purpose. The form today is for you to PLAN your school year and track the number of days and weeks your kids are doing school.
I have all 12 months on one page which means you can start on any month that you begin homeschooling and move forward to plan your year.
Plain calendars (okay, they are not so plain) are just for noting dates and for your reference. I don’t create them to write appointments on them OR to track your school.
The form today is to plan your homeschool year with days off, teacher planning days and holidays to take off. It gives you a glimpse of your homeschool year. Plan and track your school year on it.
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Today, I’m sharing 3 risks of not tracking homeschool lessons.Too, I have hundreds more free homeschool planner forms on my page Homeschool Planner.
I get asked all the time that if you’re using laid-out lesson plans is it necessary to lesson track.
My answer is always the same — YES.
Tracking homeschool lessons is different than lesson planning although they are linked.
Look at these 3 risks of not tracking your homeschool lessons even if you’re using laid-out lesson plans.
DON’T CONFUSE LESSON TRACKING WITH LESSON PLANNING
One/ Kids can advance to a higher level mid-year. You want to be ready.
I had one son who struggled with spelling consistently each year until middle school.
He jumped a whole year in our spelling curriculum and I was ready to pull the trigger because I was tracking his progress.
I was writing down the words he was struggling with, writing down the errors he was making in his usage, and having him review his errors.
Checking off boxes is not tracking progress, it just shows completion.
If you don’t track progress, it’s easy to fall in a public school mindset.
For example, instead of homeschooling for mastery or being ready to move to another level in a subject, you may think that completing a laid-out curriculum is key to mastery.
Don’t fall for the mindset that completing a laid-out curriculum equates with your child mastering concepts. It does not.
Tracking and writing out progress lets you see a true picture of what is going on each day. Completing laid-out lesson plans means just that. It doesn’t always mean success.
I’ve always referred to my well-written notes although I didn’t start off that way.
Two/ NOTHING can replace your well-guided tweaks to a lesson plan.
The second thing I’ve learned is to not forget one of the most fundamental reasons that brought me to homeschooling which is to adjust the curriculum to meet each of my kids’ needs.
When I track lesson plans, I can adjust them immediately to fit my sons’ needs for the current moment.
For example, early on I could tell that one of my sons was advancing quite rapidly in math. Instead of having him do all the math lessons, I would pick and choose the problems.
Other days I had him do only the odds or evens.
Tweaking lessons plans and tracking his progress while using a laid-out math curriculum, I knew he could maintain practice in whatever skill he was learning. But he could also move ahead.
If I hadn’t tracked his work in a lesson planner, it would’ve been very frustrating for him.
Doing work that has been previously mastered is a turn off for kids who are advanced or gifted and can cause them burn out.
Then, as homeschool parents we wonder why our kids hate a subject that was previously loved.
Tracking progress on a lesson planning page you’re tweaking is key to looking back and planning forward.
Also, having a place to track your tweaks made to laid-out lesson plans reminds you of the progress your child is making or problems he is having.
Three/ Lesson planning and lesson tracking are inextricably linked when you need to view progress and when preparing for older grades.
Another reason lesson tracking is critical is because it prepares you for teaching the older grades.
It’s the difference between sailing effortlessly into teaching high school and drowning in feelings of being overwhelmed.
Doing both lesson planning and lesson tracking, the high school years were a cinch from a record keeping standpoint.
More important to me was that I had a good pulse on the skill level of my rising high school teen because I had journaled and tracked his progress along the way even while using boxed curriculum.
A teacher’s manual is a guide. Your lesson tracking is your child’s unique visual map of his strengths and weaknesses.
Through the years, it’s been easy to look back and read my notes on each child’s progress. Immediately I could adjust either my lesson plans I created or tweaked laid-out lesson plans.
PURPOSEFUL HOMESCHOOL LESSON TRACKING
I’ve come a long way since creating my own planners way back and I know you’ll really love my detailed and beautiful pages to use for either tracking or lesson planning.
Working in the sun 7 days a week and 12 hour days as insurance auto adjusters, my sons have been walking down rows and rows of thousands of cars as they’ve been processing insurance claims at their job.
The vehicles are owned by persons affected by Hurricane Harvey. Recently, the insurance company considerably reduced the amount of staff needed to work the claims; they kept only 5 people to finish up.
My two sons were part of the 5 kept. By the way, although they have worked doing various things, this has been their first real life (don’t you just hate when people use that word with us) job.
THIS is How I Know My Homeschooled Sons Got It
How do they measure up in their first real life job? One of their bosses told the team, “It’s hard to find kids in this generation with a work ethic like these two boys. They are prompt, do what they’re told, work well with the team, and work without complaining.”
Just prior to the boss speaking, the other employees had called attention to the fact that my boys have been homeschooled.
Homeschool progress, achievement, and success is measured differently by everybody.
And you know it’s not been my style to talk a lot about my sons’ achievements. I want my son’s to explore their options during and after homeschool without feeling the need to perform for the public.
However, I do know, like me, you want to know that your day to day efforts of homeschooling are working.
And letting you know how I know that my homeschooled sons got it, I hope that if you’re having nagging feelings of self-doubt that you’ll put them to rest today.
When a student takes initiative in his school every day that practice spills over to real life. Rigorous academics builds character. Giving your kids freedom to demonstrate mastery equips them with a can do spirit that will stick into adulthood.
What I’m saying is that there is a connection between rigorous academics while homeschooling and success later.
I have rounded up 13 ways to show homeschool progress. And although I didn’t use all of them with my older boys, I used a lot of them. Too, not every idea will work with every topic, but they give you a starting point.
ONE/ Student made maps.
Whether you choose for a student to draw a map from memory or label one teaching concepts get mastered.
Wondermaps have been our choice of maps. Whatever time period my boys are working on, we can use them as a blank outline or add as much information to them as we want to.
TWO/Field trip notes.
I’ve always insisted that my sons come back with at least three key things we learned on our field trips. Not only was it fun, but I was enforcing that learning takes place outside of a book.
THREE/ Student made powerpoints or webquests.
FOUR/ Create a timeline.
FIVE/ Engage in a mock discussion. If need be, create a limited time co-op.
SIX/ Write narratives.
Writing narrative is a great way for an older student to demonstrate that he understands a subject.
SEVEN/ Student made presentations.
Presentations have been a huge part of not only recognizing achievement but gave my sons impetus to create excellent work. You don’t have to have something as formal as a co-op, but even a small family audience will work.
EIGHT/ Teach the subject back to you or to one of his siblings.
NINE/Keeping a journal.
TEN/Create a song.
ELEVEN/Create a play.
TWELVE/Oral discussions.
Oral discussions with my sons is one way I was able to gauge their progress in literature.
If they couldn’t go beyond telling me the basics of a story using proper literary terms, I knew they really didn’t put forth effort to engage with the literature.
Although my sons job right now is tough, it works for them while they are still taking courses. And I’m just as proud of their work ethic as I am of any academic grade they make.
I’ve learned that my focus on cultivating their attitude was just as important as nurturing their aptitude. You can have both.
Tests are important, but they’ll never be able to prepare a homeschool child for facing real life. Try one or two of these ways above for your child to demonstrate progress.
