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12 Ways for a Homeschooled Teen to Earn Money – A Budding Entrepreneur?

March 13, 2016 | 11 Comments
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Today, I’m sharing 12 ways for a homeschooled teen to earn money. Also, look at my page The Dynamics of How to Homeschool Easily and Smarter.

Long before they are of age to start working, kids want their own money.

And whether they count bricks at a construction site as a kid like my entrepreneur husband did or just want some spending money, kids are looking for creative ways to earn their own bucks.

12 Ways for a Homeschooled Teen to Earn Money – A Budding Entrepreneur @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

I am sharing some of the things we have thought of to put some money in kids’ pockets.

Have You Seen My Husbands Book, Entrepreneur Born or Made?

I am so PROUD of him because he created this book as a manual for my boys. I know you’ll love it.

The First Signs of an Entrepreneur

Though, I have always wanted my boys to care for the elderly regardless of whether they got paid or not, there are some elderly people that set aside funds each month to pay for the “little” things like buying groceries or cleaning their house.

So, look at these 12 ways a homeschooled teen can earn money.

My mother in law just recently told me about wanting to find somebody to vacuum her house regularly.

1. Running errands for the elderly.

If we lived closer, we would do it no charge of course, but the thought got the creative juices flowing for my boys.

2. Garage sales.

If you live in a neighborhood that allows you to have garage sales a little more regularly than twice a year, then garage sales are a great way for your kids to help you clear out clutter and for them to earn a few dollars.

3. Pet walking/pet setting.

Pet setting for a friend going on a trip or walking a pet while a friend is at work is a great activity for kids too.

4. Vet office.

Kelley’s daughter started working at a vet office helping out and cleaning after the pets until she worked up to a full working professional.

5. Babysitting.

An oldie, but goodie is babysitting.

Nowadays, they even have free CPR classes and babysitting classes, unlike they did when I babysat.

6. Yardwork.

Most people, not just elderly would like reliable help for their yard at different times of the years.

Even raking leaves is hard work and people will pay to have leaves bagged.

Having all the boys I have, I didn’t realize how easy I have it when something needs to be moved.

7. Moving small furniture or hanging pictures.

They seem to consult with each other about what is the best way to move furniture longer than the actual process of moving a piece of furniture. 

That is okay, however, because they are learning to think of creative ways of moving furniture to make it easier for them.

So that is why I say small pieces or projects to move as they learn safety.

Also, picture hanging and getting on ladders is something teens can do since a lot of women, including myself, don’t like getting on ladders.

8. Washing and detailing cars.

This is also a great way to earn money.

If the teen has supplies, he can “travel” (meaning I don’t mind taking them to where my teens need to go to wash a car), be mobile and bring a personal service to a person.

People are busy and like being at their home and will pay for a washing service to come to them.

9. Washing the outside windows of professional buildings.

My husband has encouraged my boys to create their own business, like he did at their age by washing windows in professional buildings.

There are still many locally owned business today and they may get cleaning services for the inside but maybe not the outside windows.

Making a trip once or twice a month on a regular route to clean outside windows is a great teen business.

The best part is that your teen can make his own hours and do them after school.

It doesn’t matter if nobody is there or not at the business and its probably better because some businesses want cleaning done after hours anyway.

10. Make and sell crafts.

Though my boys are not always the crafty loving type of kids, they see this as a great business for some teens.

Teens can make jewelry or duct tape wallets and sell on line. Look at some ideas for duct tape crafting here.

11. Setting up instagram, email or printers for older folks.

Many folks, like my parents want to see what we are doing by having instagram or need help setting up a printer or even help managing an email account.

Things that are very easy for us and our kids are not so easy for older folks.

What older person wouldn’t like a well-behaved and respectful teen (cute probably too – okay, okay) set up some of these apps for them on their devices?

12. Selling New Products Purchased Freely

Then one more way to make income that I think is very creative is something I learned from a dear friend.

She would save coupons and buy products, like soap or toothpaste with her coupon that were 100% free.

And then turn around and sell those new items in a garage sale or flea market booth.

The garage sale was better and a lot of time, she would find flea market booths that would give her a free booth for a month or two as an introductory offer and she would sell items she got free with her coupons.

Many times, the products were small trial size, but it didn’t matter because she would still make a 100% profit.

I was impressed then and I am still impressed today.

Coupon cutting along with online apps save money in the store.

The best thing is to buy the size where the coupon buys it for free, but a discount works too.. Just show the app on your smart phone and you get a discount.

What ways has your homeschooled teen earn money?

Also, look at these other tips:

  • Easy Fall Crafts To Make And Sell By Kids & Scarecrow Candy Jar
  • Successful Entrepreneur-3 Best Homeschooled Teen Resources
  • High School Elective: Peek at Principles and Precepts of Economics
  • 6 Ways to Organize Your Homeschooled High School Teen

Hugs and love ya,

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How to Expose Homeschooled Teens to a Variety of Fine Arts (and Get High School Credit)

December 2, 2015 | 7 Comments
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Homeschooling teens is challenging, but it can be especially rewarding when you learn how to expose homeschooled teens to a variety of fine arts and manage to get much needed high school credits too.

Whether you have homeschooled from the beginning or just pulled your teen out of school, fine arts normally rate high on the priority list of subjects to cover by both mom and teen.

We don’t add them to our homeschool high school transcript just because a fine arts credit or two is normally required in most states for graduation, but we add them to our teen’s day because they enrich their lives.

How to Expose Homeschooled Teens to a Variety of Fine Arts (And Get High School Credit) @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Making the Most of the Teen Years

To understand the vast amount of opportunities that can not only enrich a teen’s life, but that can be added to his transcript, check out this easy definition found on the TEA (Texas Education Agency.)

Fine arts at the high school level include art, dance, music, and theatre.

High school students must complete one credit of fine arts to graduate from high school under the any high school graduation program.

As you can see there can be a wide variety of classes that fall under each category.

So normally homeschool teens can easily get more than one credit. Look at my tips for How to Log Hours For High School.

Mr. Senior 2013 used Sister Wendy’s Story of Paintingfor art history. That course easily fell under arts.

Mr. Senior 2013 and Mr. Awesome 2015 both took ballroom dancing for a year.

Ballroom dancing as fine arts @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

A side note on this, but believe me when I tell you that NEITHER son had an interest in taking what they thought was a sissy sport and boring one too.

They told me and hubby that they were not taking dance classes under no circumstances.

We took into consideration their likes, but also wanted them rounded out when it came to fine arts.

So their father put his foot down (ha ha corny, pun intended) and told the boys they were going to try out ballroom dancing and it ended up being their favorite fine arts course of high school.

Their experience was far from boring as they had hip young instructors who added in a lot of modern dance moves along with group dancing.

Dancing Your Way To Graduation

The Arthur Murray studio, which my boys took ballroom dancing lessons at also offered contests and performances, which easily fell under dance too.

Within a short driving distance from our house was a university that hosted regular free performances and dances on Sunday. This counts as high school credit too.

With a little bit of out of the box thinking, it can be quite fun, not to mention affordable to add fine arts to your curriculum.

If your child loves theatre or drama, check with your local homeschool group because they may offer classes.



If they don’t, why not start up one of your own? With a few teens and a hardworking mom or two, you can easily add drama to your day and add memories to your journey.

In one of the smaller cities I lived in, one theatre group allowed the homeschoolers to use the stage during the day since it wasn’t being used.

Most homeschoolers play a musical instrument or at least dabble in music lessons like violin, a piano or guitar. This counts too as fine arts credit.

If you live not too far from a major city, most larger cities have a fine arts museum.

Teens love a field trip or two visiting a museum as part of their art course. Grab some other highschoolers and enjoy the field trip along with your teen.

Look at some of these other options:

How to Expose Homeschooled Teens to a Variety of Fine Arts (and Get High School Credit)

What has your high school teen accomplished for their fine arts credit?

Look at these other tips:

  • 14 Fun and (maybe Frugal) Homeschool High School Electives
  • Homeschooling High School: Curriculum, Credits, and Courses
  • 3 Ways to Homeschool the BIGS (a.k.a. Older Kids)

Also, check out The Must Cover Subjects for High School Part 1 and Part 2.

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Homeschool High School–How to Log Hours for High School

May 2, 2014 | 8 Comments
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I answered a question today, homeschool high school how to log hours for high school. Also look at my page How to Homeschool High School.

I luv your questions.

Ad always try to make time to put them in my blogging calendar. You are one of the reasons I blog.  Look at the one I want to help you with today. 

I can never answer questions like this with just a short answer. Why? I want you to always be in the know. 

I’m giving you a heads up now that I got long winded have many details today.

“Hi there Tina!!

Good Morning to you. Can you give any advice on how to log or track hours for high school/ high school credits? What was your system?  Laura”

How to Log or Track Hours for High School? Click here to grab tips for a no fear homeschool high school year.

Homeschool High School–How to Log Hours for High School

This is a very important question. Because you don’t want to be cheating your teen.

Or over complimenting him either when you log hours or assign credit.

Before you can log hours though there are two things to determine.

1.) How to determine time? You think this is easy enough.

But not so fast because even the professionals in college didn’t give me the same answer.

2.) And based on what criteria will you assign credit?

I will break both of these down.

There is no need to feel overwhelmed and not get a simple answer. 

The answer though will depend on what courses you want your teen to do in high school.  You have a lot of flexible so be sure to remember that too.

High School Hour Basics

For most courses, you count either 1.0 credit or 0.5 credit.  Some special occasions you can count 2.00 credits, but that is another post.  All of my courses were the standard 1.0 or 0.5 credit.

A very basic rule of thumb and easier to remember without all the educationalese is that one high school textbook or course equals to about 1 credit.

Think about that and it makes sense.

If you take either Algebra I or II for example, it takes normally about one school year to finish.

A high school publisher knows it will take that long to finish math.

If your child studied it every weekday for 1 hour in a 5 day week for a normal school year.

A normal year can run anywhere from a 120 to 180 days.

{Side point here, but remember I use 180 days in my lesson planner to give you a boost in helping you to remember a school year.}

Fast forward to the end of the freshman year.

If your child took about 6 courses to use as an example, then that would equal about 6 credits.

That is for their freshman year. Or 6 1/2 if you added a fun course that only took 1/2 as many hours like ballroom dance, or speech or maybe art.

Then 6 times 4 which is the number of years for high school if you do a 4 year plan would equal about 24.05 credits. 

That is a pretty good number of credits for high school.  It can be higher for a college bound student.

But again anything between about 21 to 24 credits is good for high school completion.

Eazy peazy and you don’t have to track actual minutes and hours.  This was by far the easiest method for me to determine credit for Mr. Senior 2013.

Determine to Avoid Time Keeping Confusion

Where I went wrong in the beginning was when I was reading too much about high school.

Ad giving myself one big giganto headache.

I was tracking every waking minute or thing he did. 

For example, he did ballroom dancing for a fine art elective and if we missed a week for some reason I freaked out got a headache recalculating.

If only I realized sooner that we did this year round and so he had so many more hours than the 0.5 credit I assigned for that type of elective.  I gave up tracking the actual hours because we were way above it and just assigned the 0.5 hr for the year and did not worry about counting the actual hours.

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You can see how quickly I realized that it was more easier to track the core subjects by completing the book or course than it was at times the electives or other projects I assigned.

Just to summarize to this point and not lose you, 1.0 credit is normally given for doing 1 hour per day of school each week day based on 120-180 hours which is a school year.

Credits for Completion or Passing

While not wanting to split hairs or overwhelm you either, I do want you to be aware of a very fine point and it is the difference in how you assign credit.

Using only the “completing a course or book equals 1.0 credit” mentality can have a slight hiccup if your student does not pass the course. 

So you can see this topic dovetails on setting a standard about how you grade and expecting a passing grade before you assign that credit too.

  I have some examples of a grading system you will want to adopt too on my page Step 5a. Choose Unique Forms JUST for You

Balancing this thinking for you, I want to throw in one more counter weight and that is about how I counted Bible study. 

It is not a subject he will ever complete and never come back to like say Algebra I.

  So I had to come up with some way of tracking it though and I did that by covering certain topics each year that I assigned. 

However, I did keep up with hours, but more than that my standard for him was one of my very own that had nothing to do with a grade. 

My standard was more about how his heart was moved as we had Bible discussions.  I simply marked it passed on that study. 

So even though Bible study is an going life time habit, you will still want to put some measurable system in place for the sake of counting it in high school.

As you  can see, you have a variety of ways to assign credit which are the core subjects, electives and things that you specifically assign which are important to your family.

Outside of the Textbook Credit Counts too

High school is about the time in your teen’s life that he needs to explore, investigate and well grow up.  So there will be some things that you will want to assign as projects for the year. 

This is perfectly normal. Both public and private schools have these options too.

For example, I assigned a 10 page essay for Mr. Senior 2013 as his final exam on the topic “What is Love?” where I expected him to break down verse by verse First Corinthians 13: 1-13. 

Out of all the subjects I assigned him to write about, I couldn’t think of a topic more worthy to his heart and his eternal benefit to remember than the true meaning of love. 

I won’t try to go teary eyed on you, but it was my last official writing assignment to him in high school.

homeschool geography quest

{Geography Quest where Mr. Senior 2013 prepared a majority of notes and visual presentation on Turkey and directed his younger siblings on what to say too.  He was graded on all 3 aspects.}

So look at some of these other ways to assign 1.0 or 0.5 credit.

  • It could be some kind of apprenticeship.
  • It could be  some kind of community project.
  • It could be any area that he demonstrated what I call a went “far and beyond” attitude to learning something.
  • It could be an essay or other long-term project that goes to the very heart of why you homeschooled.
  • It could be for helping you to keep up with his records, learning about the computer and doing self-learning, which is called orientation in some distance learning programs. (more on that below)

All families are different and their goals in their courses and projects should reflect that. 

Some families are sports minded, others have children who want to be professional dancers or music players, others are scientific minded or want college academics in high school too. 

So you can see that beyond the 3 R’s you have room to tailor your high school program to fit your family’s values or goals.

Praise for the Paper/Pen Method Despite Digital World

The best way I kept up with what we did the first year was simply to journal it in  Microsoft Word. 

At the end of the year was a better time to assess his credit based on what I kept up with during the year. 

As I sat down each time whether it was daily or if I skipped a few days because of life, I simply typed up what I thought was important to know about that day or week if it was something beyond the 3 R’s.

Now, I use part of Evernote with Mr. Awesome too because I can access it with any device, but a simple method is best. 

All the fancy forms can’t substitute for plain old journaling your journey. 

I probably made way more notes than I needed to, but I also had it all. 

I did eventually put it on the forms I made on Step 5a. Choose Unique Forms JUST for You.

Too, having helped lots of homeschool families prior I knew that many of the high school distance learning programs give a 0.5 credit called orientation as they introduced the students to using a computer and learning about high school when they enrolled. 

Since Mr. Senior 2013 could help me too by keeping up with his student planner, and my curriculum planner and typing down some of what he did as he learned the parts of the computer, I could at least give him that credit too.

Though it may seem a lot to keep up with, it can be pretty straightforward if you will remember to not worry about counting actual hours if your child is using a high school course or textbook and it equals about a year. 

Tracking Time Easily

If he passes, then that part is already done for you and you only have to keep up with the hours he worked on electives or other projects you assigned.

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{Elective courses like woodworking and home economics from Christian Light Publication and learning about computers from Alpha Omega.}

Even some of the electives can be easy to figure out too like the one we used by Christian Light Publication called Beginning Woodworking. 

It flat out said it was one credit. 

Easy enough to figure it out by choosing from publishers like Christian Light Publication, Alpha Omega Publications and Bob Jones because they specifically state the credit hours for the elective.

I hope this helps you some and don’t be too rigid about counting hours.  As you can see sometimes it is hard to put a “time or hour” on reading lists. 

Your teen needs to be worried about earning his grade instead of you worrying about getting it exactly right. 

Just use the same grading system and way of determining credit throughout all of high school and it will be consistent.

Hang in there as you homeschool high school. 

It really is a huge achievement and one well worth all the information you glean along the way.  I hope I added to your empowerment today.

  • 3 Ways to Homeschool the BIGS (a.k.a. Older Kids),
  • 10 Days of Planning a Homeschool High School Graduation and
  • Should I be Teaching Spelling to my Homeschooled Highschooler?

Hugs and love ya,

8 CommentsFiled Under: Dynamic Reader Question, Homeschool Teens _ From Teen to Graduation Tagged With: high school, high school electives, high school literature, homeschool grades, homeschool graduation, homeschool highschool, homeschoolhighschool, teens

Homeschool High School Readiness?

February 21, 2014 | 2 Comments
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Homeschool high school readiness?  What is that?  Many years ago I read an article that said children are going to school longer and are learning less each year. That thought has resonated with me during my year of homeschooling.

So from the time my sons were young, I have used both online informal testing and formal testing to determine not only what I think they should know, but to determine their state of readiness for ALL grades.

Homeschool High School Readiness

We hear the term readiness associated with preschoolers entering formal schooling. Rightly so researchers put so much emphasis on a baby’s development, preparation or readiness, and a parent’s influence on their toddler.

However, readiness is more critical at the high school age when our children are getting ready to take on more responsibility beyond just academics.

So just what is readiness? How concerned with it should we be as we homeschool during the high school years?

Readiness is defined as preparation for what comes next.  Breaking this down further, it is not just about how  academically prepared they are to take on high school level work, but it is also about the level of maturity in their social and emotional development.

What I have learned from homeschooling one son through high school and having my second son in high school now is that readiness means that signs are present that they are ready to take on a high school course load. 

And homeschooling has advantages because sometimes it means they are ready earlier than high school for a high school load and may even show readiness for college courses too. 

You certainly do not have to wait until high school to start high school courses and you can also delay formal high school work for another year.

What it does not mean is that the year they become a freshman something short of a miracle happens and they have suddenly gained some maturity or advanced insight. It also doesn’t mean they have instant mature decision making ability, but can still be unsure about their goals including career choices and college.

I have one son who was ready for high school level courses or the academics earlier in junior high and another one who is not ready for a larger academic load until his Junior year in high school. 

Start looking for high school readiness signs early so you can determine when you begin. You do not have to wait until the formal high school years to begin with high school.

Also, there are advantages to waiting for a heavy course load until later in high school when they are ready and will move along quicker making up for a slower start to high school. 

Looking back, it is just as important to look for those tell-tale signs to begin high school as it was when I started formal kindergarten with them.

High School – Ready or Not?

Homeschool High School Readiness - 5 signs to look for in your teen's development. Check it out at Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Below are 5 signs that helped me to determine when both of my sons were ready for high school level work regardless of when they actually started.

  • One son demonstrated not only an interest in academics, but a desire to move ahead in more rigorous subjects.  The other demonstrated a need to have them done or a goal to completing academics.  I have sons with two different personalities, but both sons realized this is their future and wanted to complete their goals. They now have intrinsic motivation to complete their goals.
  • Both sons were motivated on their own to begin their school day {this actually can happen quite young}, but the difference now was that they study at times of their own choosing that were not our regular school hours.  This comes from knowing that a goal is in sight and it now becomes their goal too.  It’s like having a true partnership with them in their education.  Teens can be a bit obsessive or is that motivated about everything they do from visiting with their friends, to working out to studying.  That same inspiration is now channeled to their future.  So yes they may be ready younger academically or ahead of their peers academically, but there is a certain maturity in reasoning that starts to appear too.
  • One of my sons started researching opportunities to be more involved in the community. This goes straight to the issue of wanting to interact with people and it demonstrates a maturity of understanding social issues.  My other son is more shy, but our private conversations demonstrated not only an awareness of social issues, but a maturity realizing that people make choices we can’t control.
  • Both sons argued with me {yep comes with the territory and you have to be padded with kindness and gentleness} over the curriculum I had selected.  Again, the I-am-not-sitting-back-and-letting-mom choose my curriculum marked another significant trait.  Like starting their day on their own, some children can reach this milestone early too.  The big difference demonstrating high school readiness is that it’s almost like your discussing with another adult why something would be beneficial for them.  It’s very different than explaining to a young child the benefits of why you chose a certain curriculum.
  • One son began to use an organizational system that suited him and sometimes that included using my curriculum planner after his student planner.  His system grew more advanced as he was cognizant of deadlines and I had to help him with a hanging file folder system that he much more preferred over my system.  My other son struggles in organizational areas, but has his own reasons for meeting deadlines like wanting to be completed with school.  He uses his phone as part of his organizational system.  Both of them have good systems, they are just different.

Transitioning from Teen to Young Adult

I know I mentioned it earlier, but it really bears repeating when understanding this age and that is regardless of how they look {it’s almost like two grown men have moved in with me and my husband} and act mature at lot of the times, they are still changing from childhood to adulthood.

Noticing a few of these readiness skills for high school and adulthood has helped me to avoid some of the arguments in my house. 

Completely avoiding arguments is not even realistic and we have had our fair share of them.

Remember that your teen is in transition to adulthood and he will alternate back to childish behavior. 

Keeping that in mind every day has helped me to keep those ugly blow ups to minimal.  In the best calm voice I can have when I feel my worse, I tell them we can discuss this at a later time.  I try not to resort back to treating them childish, but try to use adult to adult tactics with them.

Looking at the positive, if your teen never questioned you about decisions, then will he accept what anybody that comes along in his life tells him without question? 

Teens are honing their decision making ability and trying it out on you first.  I am glad my teens question my decisions because they will not be so easily convicted when something goes against the values they have learned in our family.

I wish I could completely conquer the desire to want to lash out at both of them, but realizing that I don’t want to get caught up in any childish arguments does help.

As you can see, high school readiness is not just about academics, but it is about the exciting time when your teen stands on the threshold of adulthood.

Homeschool High School Readiness - 5 signs to look for in your teen's development. Check it out at Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Embrace that thrilling time while you look for signs of high school readiness. 

And remember though your teen may not say it or act like it, your guidance is more essential than ever as they seek to find their way through the challenges of entering adulthood.

Also, you’l love these other tips:

  • 3 Beginner’s Tips: Homeschool High School Literature
  • How to Teach Science Through A Story – Middle & High School
  • Homeschool High School Literature Guides
  • Starting Homeschool in High School – Is It Too Late?
  • Free Homeschool High School Planning Sheet (and pssst help for high school too)

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Free Homeschool Community Service Planning Record

October 22, 2013 | 11 Comments
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I have something new for you today. A homeschool community service record. But before I get to that, I had to share.

I just couldn’t wait. I had to share a picture or two because I just got back the graduation party pictures and I have a new planning page that I am excited to get into your little hands also.

Updated Robertson Family Picture

At least now I have an updated family picture and loved how this one turned out.

10 Days of Plannning Homeschool Highschool Graduation

I have a few more to share with you and then the rest I want to  show you when I start my 10 days of planning a homeschool high school graduation. I have MUCH to tell you about what to do and what not to do when planning. Plus, I need to tell you about it when its fresh on my mind.

Mr. Senior 2013

Here is the graduation picture that I am loving. I like it the best of the “official” cap and gown ones, but he did have some taken outside too.

Graduation Picture outside
Mr. Senior 2013 Graduation Picture outside

Another project I had reeling around in my head for new followers and maybe not so new followers is to explain the steps for my planning pages. I know I put each step on a separate blog page, but having something for you to quickly glance at gives you an overall idea of how to do this.

I want to show you what constantly is going on in my mind as I continue to build the planning pages. I will put this new visual on my blog so that hopefully  nobody gets overwhelmed as I continue to have ideas for new forms swirl around in my head.

7 Steps to Planning a DIY Homeschool Curriculum Planner @ Tinas Dynamic Homeschool Plus1

Too because I realize I needed some new forms as I was record keeping for Mr. Senior 2013 through the last four years, I will slowly be sharing those as  I go along too.

One that was real obvious to me right away was something to track his community service.

Sure he can write it down in his student planner, but “I” needed to track it too so I had a clear idea on the hours for record keeping purposes.

Free Homeschool Community Service Planning Record. Need a way to track your teen's volunteer hours or community service? You'll love this AWESOME form! Click here to download it.

So here is the latest form for your highschooler. Too, some states require more intensive record keeping and so if you are doing anything to give back to your community and you need to track it for your children because it counts as school, this form will work for you.

It is a 7 day week because a lot of times community service is done on the weekends too. I have 2 slots on each day which is just enough room to jot down the total hours or time spent and a simple note for the type of service. Then a total for that week is at the bottom. Use the larger box at the very top for the total monthly time spent.

If you need more room and there was a specific community project or you are doing something different each week, then use the long dotted line out beside the week to make more notes for  the project.

By keeping this a monthly form, you can print off as many or as few as you need. In other words, you may not be doing something for the whole year.

I have a bit of color creating withdrawal lately so this satisfies my color craving for just a short time anyway. I LOVE color and hope you do too.

Download Tracking Community Service Record Here.

You’ll love reading these other tips about high school. 10 Days of Planning a Homeschool High School Graduation, 3 Ways to Homeschool the BIGS (a.k.a. Older Kids) and How to Grade a Homeschool Unit Study for an Older Child (& high school assessment).

Luv ya, hope you like the new form and our latest family picture.

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