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Posted by Anonymous

I have two children in college that I homeschooled K-12 and a 5 year old mid way through 'K'. I did a very similar thing up to 2nd grade. I used Konos and felt the same way after 2nd, but in upper middle school, I started to think about having to make transcripts and started the process again. I can't tell you what a difference it made for me to have those wonderful records, rough and incomplete as they were. As a homeschooler, many private colleges that my oldest applied to requested more information than a transcript provided. They also helped alot when filling out schlorship applications. In addition, much like the blogs, it was a 'trip down memory lane' for my children and a wonderful help in scrapbooking (I'm always several years behind:-)
Thanks for sharing all of your wonderful ideas and I would encourage you to keep up the records, even though you don't need them now. They will certainly come in handy later.
Blessings to you and your family

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Posted by mama2gems

Jamin,

Do you still have a copy of that form? I would love to see it so I could do something similar (for the same purpose too). Thanks for your time.

Mrs. H.

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Posted by Anonymous

Hi Jamin...I just wanted to say that I have found the same type of thing in a book called "Homeschooling: A Patchwork of Days". It is basically a book written by a bunch of different homeschool families and how a "Typical" day in their lives looked like(and they created a quilt together as they wrote the book which was right up my alley). I needed something like that so that I could develop my own sense of what our family's day might look like, and so I would have an extremely simply record keeping system. Anyway, I typed out a sheet of paper for each one of my boys that has the subjects listed Bible, Math, Reading....and more specific options underneath like this: M T W TH F S SN LifePac (or Awana, or a _______) on each line. I listed everything we might do in a year on this one sheet of paper. Now all I have to do is print out a new one each week (I usually add a This week's Focus: at the top too). And each day I simply circle the M's for Monday...T's for Tuesday..and so on... which ones we accomplished...and as he gets older he will circle what he has accomplished. I love it because it gives me a sense of freedom each day and I can also glance at it and see what subjects have been ignored. I also use the back of the page to sort of journal my thoughts on that particular week and how each child is doing. Then I use the 3-hole punch and stick it in a notebook that will hold all of his Planning and Learning Logs for years. My husband loves this too because he can give his input (like reading a Psalm/Proverb each day) and I can use that as a mini subject under Reading. I hope I didn't bore you with all the details. Thanks for all your encouragement and ideas. Hugs, Leah

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