Home Education Notebook

As I was pulling this together, I kept thinking "why didn't I do this years ago?".   Also, what is helpful to me, probably won't be helpful to you.  Just as our days are so personalized to our own unique families, so is what we need to have on hand.  But here it is just the same.  Oh, and I did find the George Washington books I misplaced!!

Homeschooling Notebook for Mom

     ✴ I purchased a large 3" binder, I wanted room for items for six kids, and wanted to have extra space rather than try to jam it into a smaller binder.


     ✴  Divider for each child
           ~ list of curriculum used
           ~ book list
           ~ list of both short term and long term goals - we are working with Jacob on coming up with some of his own, as well as my goals for each child
           ~ different things that are pertitnent to each child, for instance, Sarah is interested in learning more sign language, so I have some resources that we could use in the future, then in Leah's I have a list of things to work on for both speech and o.t.


     ✴ "I'm Bored! List of Activities ~ while I was cleaning and organizing the learning room I made a list of activities I came across that they could pick from when they are "soooo bored".


     ✴ A Quick At -a- Glance Schedule for me to then use to write on our white board each day in the kitchen.  For example, on Monday's we do writing and geography.


    ✴  A list of our family vocabulary word of the week


    ✴ A list of the Five in a Row topics for the particular book that we are rowing, that I want to cover during the week, as well as any go along books to be used.  Also included would be our craft plans for the week.


    ✴ Family read aloud list - a list of ideas for future read alouds


My hope is that this will easily grow and change with our needs.  So far it has worked better than I could have hoped and has helped the day go a bit smoother.