Guides
Practical guides to homeschool records and planning
Short, practical guides to the parts of homeschooling nobody hands you a manual for: keeping attendance, building a portfolio, making a transcript, and planning a year that survives real life. Each one works on paper as well as in the app.
How to keep homeschool attendance records
A practical way to keep homeschool attendance: what counts as a day, how to record hours, what to do about sick days and field trips, and how to show the total.What goes in a homeschool portfolio
What to put in a homeschool portfolio: a reading list, dated work samples from across the year, an attendance summary and a short overview per subject.How to make a homeschool transcript
Make a homeschool high school transcript: list courses by year, assign credits, compute a GPA on a 4.0 scale, write course descriptions and print it.Planning a homeschool year with terms and breaks
Plan a homeschool school year: pick the dates, count the school days you need, divide the year into terms, place breaks, and leave room for real life.Loop scheduling, explained
Loop scheduling explained: subjects take turns in order instead of fixed days, so nothing is skipped when a day goes wrong. How to set one up and when to use it.Record keeping for multiple children
Keep homeschool records for several children without doubling the work: shared subjects, separate records, one daily habit and a weekly check.Starting homeschooling mid-year
A practical checklist for starting homeschooling partway through a school year: check the rules, gather records, pick a starting point and begin the record.Putting together a year-end packet
How to assemble a year-end homeschool packet for an evaluator, a review or your own files: attendance, subjects, hours, reading list and work samples.How to grade in your homeschool
How to give homeschool grades that mean something: when to grade, choosing categories and weights, picking a scale, and turning averages into letters.
Keep the record while you teach
Tick the lessons you teach; attendance, hours, the portfolio and the transcript build from there.