Getting Started with Homeschooling
Practical Considerations for Parents of School-Aged Children
© Beverley Paine
Index
Homeschool
Australia
Some Examples Of Recording And Evaluation
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April - June '92
Complete at least 5 activities from different areas each day.
Excursions and field trips play an important role in home education. A simple method of recording excursions is to take the ‘what’s on’ schedule taken from a support group newsletter and store it in your evaluation and recording folder. You can add to the list other educational excursions you go on during that period. Alternatively you could maintain an excursion scrap book and include the schedule in that, along with any comments about the excursion by you and the children, as well as photos, information sheets and brochures from the event or place. Such scrap books are invaluable when summarising a year’s learning.
September 13th, Tuesday: Ring Anne to book.
11.30 a.m. Old Parliament House.
1.00 a.m. Picnic Lunch by Torrens River
2.00 a.m. Parliament House
September 17th, Saturday: Ring Beverley to book.
10.30 a.m. Friends of the Museum - Marine Life of Coastal Waters of S.A., Royal Society Rooms, Museum.
1.00 p.m. Picnic Lunch by Torrens River
2.00 p.m. “Blue Print For Peace" Tibetan Monks performing Tantric Rituals and creating ceremonial sand Mandala
October 14th, Friday: Ring Sue to book.
9.45 a.m. Channel 10, Strangways Tce North Adelaide.
2.00 p.m. Museum Holiday Program - Aboriginal Art
October 15th, Saturday: Ring Beverley for more information.
11.00 a.m. Mineral, Gem & Craft Exhibition, Unley High School, Netherby. Cost $3 adults, $1 children. Free rock bag for each child.
October 20th, Thursday: Ring Sue to book.
10.15 a.m. The Advertiser Newspaper, Railway Tce, Mile End.
12.00 noon Lunch at Villi's Bakery, play in playground West Tce afterwards.
October 22nd, Saturday: Ring Beverley for more information.
10.30 a.m. Echunga Gold Digging - Guided Tour with historian & mineralogist.
October 27th, Thursday: Ring Sue to book.
11.45 a.m. Visit to Radio Station 5AN, Collinswood Studio.
October 29th-31st: Ring Beverley to book.
11.00 a.m. Deep Creek Conservation Park Camp, Fleurieu Peninsula. Tents or caravans. Cost about $10 per family per night.
Calendar pages (illustrated over the page) are an excellent way to record events. They show at a glance a diverse range of activities planned, or carried out, during a month. The following calendar shows only those events planned, but calendars with larger spaces can be purchased, or made, to record things that have happened each day as well. Some calendars have additional space to allow for recording information. Such a calendar could be the backbone of your recording efforts, supplemented by collected samples of work, and your evaluation journal.
One home schooling family used two calendars, each with adequate recording space. The first calendar detailed the busy life of the family, with events, appointments, classes and celebrations, and the other provided an insightful commentary on the children’s growth and development, recording anecdotes and achievements on a daily basis.
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Excerpt from Getting Started with Homeschooling, Practical Considerations
© Beverley Paine, 1997
