Getting it together

On my other blog, I am making my Home Management Binder. This will take me lot's of time, because I am taking it slower than usual. Today I have started creating my homeschool section of my binder. It will have attendance sheets and lesson plans for each child school age. I will also put the letter from the school district and HSLDA phone number and membership information. I want to put goals and reading lists also, but like I said I am taking it slowly so that I get it just the way I want it. I have printed out some nice attendance forms from a great website, and I haven't really decided how I want to do my lesson plans. I know for the older boys I am going to give them a weekly list and they can complete it however they want and just check it off. But I am uncertain of how I want to make them for the rest of the children. I have Edu-Track, and it is good, but I have decided that I am more of a paper in my hand gal so I don't use it. I am thinking daily checklists that I can print up, write page numbers on and put into my binder. This way it won't be too difficult to use, I can make up a master list and pencil in the extra activities, page numbers, etc. and not have to much extra to write out.

I had better get on the ball, because our new school year started in July and I am so very behind on grading. Of course I review it daily and have them correct things, but sometimes if I am busy I don't get to it, and just recording the grades is going to take a lot of time. I have started giving report cards. I didn't used to think it important, but now after seeing how much the chidren enjoy seeing their progress I do. They get excited and eagerly show Daddy their report cards. And it is a nice record to keep on hand of school years.

If you are interested in doing report cards, there are a couple places that I have found where you can print them out. This place, and this one offer nice looking printable report cards. You then just write in the info. Or if you are a super perfectionist, use it to create your own report card template that you can fill in on the computer and print out.