Home School Record Keeping

Why is Home School Record Keeping Important?

Home School Record keeping becomes increasingly important as your children reach high school age. Because colleges, places of employment, and the military may require a transcript, it is important that you have a dependable record keeping system and are able to compile an accurate transcript. These transcripts become your child's permanent record and may be needed for a variety of reasons for years to come.  Although record keeping requirements can vary by state, keeping accurate records beginning when your children are young, will relieve much of the stress of home schooling.  As you will see below, I will be addressing some of the most important aspects of home school record keeping.

Home School Record Keeping for Time Spent Learning

Homeschoolers have a wonderful resource available to them for accurately assigning credit for home school work completed.  This resource is called, The Carnegie Unit.  The Full-Year Notebook System goes into detail on how to assign credit based on the Carnegie Unit.  Not only does The Full-Year Notebook System address the Carnegie Unit but it provides a record keeping system to enhance The Carnegie System of assigning credit to high school students.  A search of the Internet by typing in Carnegie Unit will also help you to understand how the Carnegie Unit works.

Non-Traditional Approaches to Home School

We all know that many homeschoolers like to use supplemental learning experiences to fulfill required learning.  Record keeping can become extremely difficult considering a two hour field trip to a museum can be difficult to record using a traditional record keeping system but the learning that took place while at the museum could be equivalent to a week of reading a textbook.  These alternative learning opportunities are a vital part of home schooling and should be reflected in your record keeping system.  If your record keeping system does not reflect all of the learning that is taking place in your home school, you may consider using The Full-Year Notebook System.  Not only does The Full-Year Notebook System allow for alternative learning experiences but it is flexible enough for all learning styles and home school teaching methods such as Unschooling, Classical Education, and Unit Studies.  Not only that but if you wish to educate your child using nothing but library resources or living books, The Full-Year Notebook System provides you with a way to keep accurate records and assign credit where credit is due.

The Nuts and Bolts of Record Keeping

It may seem a daunting task but to keep accurate records requires much diligence.  Either the parent or the student must record every learning experience either as it is happening, as it is assigned, or they must go back and try to remember what assignments were previously completed.  They must also know how to add up all of the learning experiences into high school credit. 

The Full-Year Notebook System provides a way to record all of these methods and more importantly, how to add up all of these experiences for credit.  We highly recommend that you either record as you go or pre-plan your assignments so credit can be easily assigned.  Trying to remember what Junior did three years ago is not a good way to do your record keeping.  The Full-Year Notebook System provides a method for both pre-planning and recording as you go.

When you use The Full-Year Notebook System, you will find worksheets for planning your school year and recording all learning that took place during the year including:

Whatever method you choose for your home school record keeping, it is important that you get started now regardless of the ages of your children.  Not only do you need to become comfortable with your record keeping system before your children reach high school but many states require home school record keeping. 

Home school record keeping doesn't have to be a difficult task.  It can be as simple as a journal of your child's progress or a calendar with the assignments completed each day.

The Full-Year Notebook System uses a weekly planning system which records all work done for each week of school.  Not only does it record assignments according to weeks of school instead of days of school, it is flexible so if your child gets sick or grandma comes to visit, Junior will not get behind in his school work.

There are planning sheets provided which help you to determine how much school work to assign on a weekly basis.  These weeks of school are not tied to a calendar but are actually the assignments which provide a week of credit for school work done.  The formulas provided on the planning worksheets in The Full-Year Notebook System are designed to help you to figure all of that out.

How To Purchase
The Full-Year Notebook Record Keeping System

The Full-Year Notebook System has been very popular with homeschoolers across the nation.  If you are interested in purchasing The Full-Year Notebook System for use in your own home school, you will find the links below. 

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