Getting Started with Homeschooling: Practical Considerations for Parents of School-Aged Children, by Beverley Paine

Getting Started with Homeschooling

Practical Considerations for Parents of School-Aged Children

Some Examples Of Recording And Evaluation
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All home schooling families use calendars to help organise their busy lives. It makes sense to expand on their use and collect the discarded pages each month as a simple and easy home school record.

The last recording example on page 108 is a check-list designed to be completed by the child. The check-list is used as a guide to the type of activities expected to be completed each week. This is a contract between the child and the parent, and forms the backbone of the educational program. Other activities also happen, and would be recorded in a journal format, with anecdotal information about the type of learning happening.

This is an extensive check-list and reflects a very structured approach to home education.

November 1993
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	1 Trip to Adelaide. Lego Exhibition.	2 Water Filtration Plant visit. Picnic.	3 Art & Keyboard Lessons. Horse riding	4 Indonesian Lessons Guitar. Yoga	5 Wirrina - swimming. Food co-op meeting.	6 V/Harbor - Dr Heddle. Penguins, Granite Is.
7 TFL Day - Filling Boxes Watch Grand Prix	8 Vintage Cars -school. Tai Chi starts.	9 Keyboard Lessons. Collect mulch & manure.	10 Art Lessons. Cancer Screening .	11 Indonesian and Guitar Lessons. Yoga	12 Wirrina - swimming. April -Life Education.	13 Trash & Treasure Stall. Carol's party.
14 Nana & Granddad visit.	15 Conference - National Profiles FHBLN	16 Keyboard Lessons Roger - Life Education	17 Art Lessons. Concert at School	18 Indonesian and Guitar Lessons. Yoga	19 Wirrina - swimming Thomas -Life Education	20 Yankalilla Market Day Tristan's Birthday
21 Dune Care Group - Lady Bay	22 Science Fair at school.	23 Keyboard Lessons.	24 Art Lessons. Horse riding	25 Indonesian and Guitar lessons. Yoga	26 Wirrina - swimming. Dance Concert	27 FHBLN Bushwalking and Picnic
28 Home Education Workshop	29 Sizzlers & Shopping Warrawong Night walk	30 Visit Mitsubishi Car Factory Shopping

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