NessaPower

I know I know.....But, would love to hear how one would do a sample week for me.
I have to record hours, have examples and such(1000 hours by the end of the year with 600 of LA, Reading, Math, Sci, and SS).
This is our first year(1st and 4th grader of such), and for the past few weeks I have let them basically play and put away all our schoolish books, and it has been soooo less stressful on all of us, especially my almost 7yr.
BUT, I'm nervous wreck on having my record information on tact. I feel I have to have all this paper stuff on a weekly basis or I'm failing or something.
Ok, I need to go get more coffee, but I'm always looking for info out there to make our homeschooling the right choice, and not for me to fail my kiddos.
Thanks for letting me unwind on ya all!!
Vanessa


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LIE LIE LIE
Tht'a what I would do if I had to!
what state are you in?
Elissa


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Betsy

**
I have to record hours, have examples and such(1000 hours by the end of
the year with 600 of LA, Reading,
Math, Sci, and SS). **

Hi, Vanessa --

What state do you live in?

Have you verified that these "requirements" are actually part of the
education law? Schools personnel have been known to lie about what
homeschoolers are actually required to do.

I did a quick calculation and 1000 hours, divided by 36 weeks in a
school year and then 5 days in a week comes up to a 5.5 hour school day.
(Approximately.) Students aren't spending 5.5 hours constructively "on
task" in school every day. There's a lot of time wasted on
administrative stuff, misbehavior and review. Most homeschoolers who do
formal curriculum don't spent 5.5 hours a day. 3 hours, or less, is a
lot more common.

Betsy

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In a message dated 12/6/02 8:25:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Earthmomma67@... writes:

> LIE LIE LIE
>

I LOVE brutal honesty!



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In a message dated 12/6/02 9:23:13 AM, kmvioletta@... writes:

<< > LIE LIE LIE
>

I LOVE brutal honesty!
>>

Which lying isn't. <g>

But people in every state get by without lying. Even those which require
portfolios or charts.

Teachers themselves don't keep the kinds of records many homeschoolers
mistakenly believe they're supposed to keep.

And if someone is totally stressing about record keeping, they ARE
failing--failing to be calm and happy homeschoolers.

For newer participants on this list, here's something Carol Narigon used
which can easily be adapted for other families.

http://sandradodd.com/unschoolingcurriculum


Sandra

Tia Leschke

> I know I know.....But, would love to hear how one would do a sample week
for me.
> I have to record hours, have examples and such(1000 hours by the end of
the year with 600 of LA, Reading, Math, Sci, and SS).

Even if it turns out that you really have to document all these hours, you
can learn how to write in educationese. Then you write down all the stuff
they do and put an educationese spin on them. But do check, as someone
suggested. Make sure you're actually required by law rather than school
board.
Tia

chloecmt <[email protected]>

Hi I have been *lurking* for about 3 weeks reading posts. I started
out homeschooling 2 years ago but we now Unschool. I live in
Missouri. I use a daily log that can be found at:

http://www.anglefire.com/mo3/schoolhouse/dailylog.jpg

its very simple to use for me. All MO seems to care about is that
one, the child/children are in attendence, two, they are being
*taught* the 5 required subjects, those 5 must be *taught* in 600
hours per year, 400 of those 600 must be in the home, and additional
400 hours must be in non-core subjects per year, total 1000 hours. I
have 2 children 12 and 10 I keep one daily log per child per week.
Children learn from the time they wake up in the mornings til they go
to bed at night. My daily log shows an *hour* in each core subject
per day. 1 to 2-1/2 hours per day non-core. If my son, 12 reads the
directions to a new game cube game, thats reading. If he figures out
how much that game is going to cost to buy/rent, thats math. If he
helps me make cookies and we have to reduce the amounts used, thats
fractions. Making cookies is math. Reading the sales adds to me and
helping make a list is reading/writing. Watching the science channel
counts as science. He watched the history channel last night for 3
hours because he wanted to. His favorite subject, The Titanic was
being shown as they tried to lift a section of it. That counted as
science and social studies. He watched it until 11 p.m. school isn't
out at our home at 3 p.m. its out when they go to bed. Every 2-3 days
I write down the hours in the log. I wrote a Plan of Education for
each child and have that in a folder I keep the daily log in. I also
keep a copy of our states law requirements in it. The only thing that
we must show if ever questioned is the daily log, and the only person
that can request that is the Prosecuting attorney. e-mail me at,
Chloe@... if you have any questions.


--- In [email protected], "NessaPower"
<nessapower@p...> wrote:
> I know I know.....But, would love to hear how one would do a sample
week for me.
> I have to record hours, have examples and such(1000 hours by the
end of the year with 600 of LA, Reading, Math, Sci, and SS).
> This is our first year(1st and 4th grader of such), and for the
past few weeks I have let them basically play and put away all our
schoolish books, and it has been soooo less stressful on all of us,
especially my almost 7yr.
> BUT, I'm nervous wreck on having my record information on tact. I
feel I have to have all this paper stuff on a weekly basis or I'm
failing or something.
> Ok, I need to go get more coffee, but I'm always looking for info
out there to make our homeschooling the right choice, and not for me
to fail my kiddos.
> Thanks for letting me unwind on ya all!!
> Vanessa
>
>
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Christina in GA

I got a page not found error when I tried to look at your log.

Christina in GA
Happiness comes through doors you
didn't even know you left open.

----- Original Message -----
From: chloecmt <Chloe@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:02 AM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: Not another record keeping question.....


Hi I have been *lurking* for about 3 weeks reading posts. I started
out homeschooling 2 years ago but we now Unschool. I live in
Missouri. I use a daily log that can be found at:

http://www.anglefire.com/mo3/schoolhouse/dailylog.jpg


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