There seem to be so many ways to keep attendance records for homeschooling. Sometimes, these vary because of state requirements. Often though, these vary because of personal preference.
There are blank calendars, standard teacher lesson plan/record books, homeschool tracking software, the back of a napkin…
What do you use in your homeschool for tracking attendance? If you keep grades, how do you track those?
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If we are breathing, we are learning. 100% attendance!!
However, we are not required to keep track. ;)
Anita in MS http://busyhandsbusyminds.blogspot.com
We’re not required to keep attendance in our state, but we do have to make sure that, if asked, we can give proof that we conducted school for the minimum number of required days. We use Sonlight’s Instructor’s Guides and at the top of each curriculum day we enter the date that we did the work. If there’s a date there, everyone was “in school.”
We are required by our state to keep attendance. I just use the form that I have to mail in to our local school board. We don’t have to keep track of grades, so I don’t. The kids have to correct their mistakes, anyway, so they’d all be 100% ultimately. ;-)
When my oldest starts high school level work, I’ll have to start keeping track of grades for her transcripts, but I’m not worrying about it until then.
I love Homeschool Tracker Plus. Its the most amazing software. It motivates and organizes my homeschool. My kids are too young for grades in my opinion. They either know the material or not. We don’t move on until they do.
We aren’t required to keep records until age 7. Luckily, my daughter is 4, so that gives us some time to figure out how best to organize and keep records.
We are required to keep attendance records in our state. I used to just use a simple spreadsheet, but I have been using Homeschool Tracker lately. We don’t keep grades right now, we’ll probably start that as he gets closer to high school. But Homeschool Tracker does grading to so I should be covered there.