Thursday, November 15, 2007
Home school stalker, I mean tracker...
I also downloaded a free version of Homeschooltracker to TRY YET AGAIN to log what I do. It is tedious at best but guess who LOVES it???? S! So she will "track" what we do daily and the good thing is I can print a report at the end of the year by subject or student and have a nice little package for my evaluator. M referred me to it which is confusing since it totally seems NOT her, though she does have the advanced version. But I am hoping that if S. continues to love it then we will successfully have logged what we do around this joint!
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I'm telling you, this is what keeps from being totally, completely disorganized about school. I'm still a free spirit, but at least I can comfort myself with how many hours or days we have done with math or reading for the year. Anyone else, though, would look at the way I have my Tracker organized and still think I was a disorganized mess, lest your image of me be too much disturbed. :o)
I have been using HS Tracker for over 2 yrs. now. I love it! I don't know how you are using it, Michelle, but I just put stuff in after we have done something. I have not been organized enough to put lesson plans in yet, as life seems too crazy to follow the best laid plans. I also have the tendency to feel bad if plans fall through. But it works for me, and is so neat and tidy when printed out for the evaluator at year's end. My only trouble seems to be with staying consistent in entering everything we do. But I would have that same problem with a handwritten list as well. BTW, I use the "Plus" version. It was well worth the price for the upgrade.
You know, I should have said more:
I created a student with the name of "whole family". I use this quite frequently, to log anything we do as a family (or just ALL the kids; not necessarily hubby). That way, after a whole year goes by, and I want to print it all out, I am not printing the same activities in duplicate (or triplicate when B is in "school" too.) It is especially handy when recording books read. H and C are just now beginning to read, but the books I have read to them are tremendous. Now, with the "whole family" reading log, it's stuff we have done together, which will be distinctly separate from books they are beginning to read entirely on their own. I hope that makes sense, why I needed it separate.
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