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| Iris |
| Posted on: February 15th, 2006, 4:02pm |
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Are there any good resources out there to assist with creating a curriculum? I also wanted to ask how everyone tracks their students assignments, grades, attendance.
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| Futurekids |
| Posted on: February 15th, 2006, 4:11pm |
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We use a computer program called Homeschool Tracker. I like it and find it helpful in reducing clutter in that I can throw away lots of past work, assignment book, etc. and still have a file on what we've done.
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| Iris |
| Posted on: February 15th, 2006, 4:20pm |
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Sharon:
Can not thank you enough for your help. I am downloading the software as I type  Again, thanks
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| M_Leader |
| Posted on: February 15th, 2006, 4:27pm |
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It depends on what grade you are interested in and if you have a particular style.
I lot of people use the series of books by Hirsch (?) called What Your Child Should Know in Grade **, I think they go from K to 6. I find them a little too demanding, especially in the lower grades, but it's a place to start.
Middle School is a little more up in the air, but if you look at what most ps do, you realize that they use it to review and round out previously covered material while they wait for the kids to mature enough to approach the next level. A lot of kids come out of the lower grades all over the place as far as what they have covered in their classes. You can use it to strengthen concepts or jump right into harder stuff.
There are many ways to approach high school curriculums. If you are focused on doing it yourself, I'd recommend doing two things first. Check what the state sets out as guidelines for the ps highschools. What do they need to cover? And then check with some colleges on what classes they want all incoming freshman to have had. Then use these two lists as guidelines (only) on what you and your child want to do.
Now some other thoughts.
If you are interested in Charlotte Mason and her ideas, http://www.amblesideonline.org/index.shtml has a free curriculum guide set up for all years.
If you are interested in following a Classical model, then check out: http://www.welltrainedmind.com/
A lot of people have some trouble laying back with homeschooling younger kids. We are very formal and structured in what we expect from our kids now (11 and 15), but in K to third grade, you really only need to begin basic arithimatic, read a lot of books (outloud and whatever their reading level is) and expose them to places and ideas that following their natural desires. For example: Don't worry about 'doing' art. Just get supplies and give them time to explore it. Don't 'do' science. Spend some time at the park (or zoo etc.) and pick some aspect of nature that they are interested in, get some books on that and read them and just explore. This is the time to have fun and show them that the world is their classroom.
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| M_Leader |
| Posted on: February 15th, 2006, 4:31pm |
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I didn't worry about tracking until we had to deal with highschool. Now I track everything for my son.
One method for younger years is to just keep a journal where you make notes as you do something. Low key.
For tracking we use Edu-track and I like it, especially the ability to add in a lot of extra info. OTH, I still don't worry about grades per se. At the end of the year I do enter a 'final' grade based on how he did for the year, so if I had to produce them at some point I'd have a starting place. Edu-track will let you enter assignment grades and then calculation an average. |
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| Admin |
| Posted on: February 15th, 2006, 4:41pm |
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| obiwan |
| Posted on: February 16th, 2006, 2:04am |
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| I buy lesson plan books from Staples, but I think you can probably make your own with Works. |
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| obiwan |
| Posted on: February 16th, 2006, 2:07am |
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Here's an email I received sometime back when I was looking for homeschool groups, the name of the organization is ERC or Educational Resource Center.
We offer curriculum consulting, a lending library of 3,000 books, and
SAT
testing each June. Our services are at no cost. We are located at 12201
Commanche NE and are open Weds & Fridays from 8:30-4:30.
Hope that helps; thanks for asking.
Terryl Walters 292-3156
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| MJ |
| Posted on: February 16th, 2006, 10:51pm |
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As far as curriculum, I looked through HS online "stores" for things marked 2nd grade, then went to review pages, etc and worked from there - a lot of research, in other words.
To track what we do, I made a chart in Excell with headings for days of the week and rows with the subjects we do daily typed, and 2 blank rows for subjects that vary, to just pencil in for that day. I've been doing that for a few weeks and really like it! DS scratches out the assignments when he finishes, and I can look and see what he did yesterday to check it and make new assignments. I am also a perpetual "keeper". This is our first year HSing and I've kept it all: old workbooks, paperwork, assignment sheets, all of it. I imagine if we keep it up I'll need to reduce at some point! As I'm not sure how long we'll HS, I'm worried about needing to "prove" what we covered later on. I don't do "grades", except to occasionally make a point ("you left the whole page blank! That would be an F"! / "Great job! A+++!") I know keeping the paperwork but not grades is contradictory behavior, but there it is. : )
BTW - M_Leader, I was so relieved to be reminded of how rigid we DON'T have to be for 2nd grade! I catch myself thinking that we should be teaching everything, all at once. Gets stressful! I was also interested to read your assessment of Middle School - I never thought of it that way! I worry sometimes about retention, and have to remind myself that this isn't the only time in his life he'll study things like electricity!
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