The Home Mgt Journal - Education

Oops, forgot one section didn't I?  The Education section will look different in homes that homeschool vs those that don't obviously. If you don't educate at home you would want to put any information from your child's school here - important dates, phone numbers, fliers, permission slips,forms.

Here is what we have:

The paperwork from our private school umbrella program including our attendance sheet. Many states require some kind of record of days of instruction. Donna Young has an attendance form with a font very similar in style to the rest of the binder so  if you need one this is a great place to get it. A Course of Study is also extremely wise to include. Again Donna's form is perfect.

Our weekly school goal chart Download school_weekly_goal_checklist.doc   I mentioned in a back post that this includes daily work (at the top) and then the other squares are things for them to choose from the rest of the day. My high school student has this chart Download asher_weekly_goal_sheet.doc to track his work. Right now this is it for planner type forms. Donna Young has some excellent unit study and blank weekly planners if those are more your style.

Then I have some philosophy pages that briefly outline the method behind our madness. ; )  There are two Charlotte Mason files that I adapted from Simplycharlottemason.com and Ambleside Academy Online:

Download charlotte_mason_summary.doc    and Download charlotte_mason_synopsis.doc

I have my Montessori Scope and Sequences from monteaco.com. 

I also have the masters for our notebooking pages. You can print these onto cardstock and use them to make notebook pages for history, science, art, narrations etc. You can also leave them as desktop forms and type and cut and paste net images directly into the sections. There are a lot of them:

Download portfolio_text_box_1.doc       Download portfolio_text_box_2.doc    

Download portfolio_text_box_3.doc      Download portfolio_text_box_4.doc

Download portfolio_text_box_5.doc      Download portfolio_text_box_6.doc

Download portfolio_text_box_7.doc      Download portfolio_text_box_8.doc

Download portfolio_text_box_9.doc

these next couple are lined for nature notebooks and biographies: 

Download nature_journal_entry.doc   lined

Download nature_study_half_page_2.doc   lined half page only

Download portfolio_narration_page_lined.doc

There are some nice downloads of book reports, artist and composer evaluations etc at Love 2 Learn Place. Whatever you find online that you love do print and keep a master. Too many times over the years I have just bookmarked things thinking I could get them later only to find them removed. Here is a link to Historical Movies in Chronological Order. A reading list is very nice to have. Reading Your Way through History is a great resource. The Caldecott and Newberry lists are also good guides.

Ok now I am done. : )

Comments

[Margaret]

Kim,
Thank you so much for posting your ideas on home management notebooks. These have been so helpful and inspiring, not to mention beautiful!

[Louise]

I love all those portfolio pages. Once again, thank you!

[Louise]

Humm... I can't open the montessori link.

[Tracy]

Kim, thank you so much for sharing all of this. It has really helped and inspired me. I will let you know when I have my pictures and post ready.

[Kim]

Hey all, I see the monteaco.com site is still not loading for me. I know its a good url though so am thinking its a problem at the source. Let me know if you can get through.

[Meredith]

You are sooo awesome to provide ALL this and the so many other posts you've made!! I am set to do my notebook this weekend, God Willing!!! I hope to upload on my blog and I'll send you my link! thank you thank you thank you ;)

[Katherine in TX]

Thank you so much for sharing the downloads. I just printed off some of the portfolio text box pages. My girls are going to narrate by making comic strips and these will work perfectly! :)

[Donna Marie]

Kim, you are awesome..and as usual 2 steps ahead of me! I was making my own portfolio pages and never got a clue to keep a master so I didn't have to re-invent the wheel...LOL...

Thank you for keeping this creative scatterbrain on the road to recovery...ROFL! I WILL be organized this year!! right? ;o)

You might also want to add these to your list...we love them!
http://www.jeanniefulbright.com/Notebook.html
We are currently using the Astronomy ones and there are more lined pages with the empty frames for the younger and older ones at the bottom of the file

ooh..ooh...also ck out the insect flash cards!

HTH!!

[Patty]

Love the portfolio pages. Thank you so much!