Use this outline to create a homeschool assessment for each child at the end of your school year.
Since homeschooling parents are monitoring their children’s progress on a daily basis, there is little need for detailed record keeping as we have a good idea of our children’s work and their progress.
However, situations may arise when you need a written record. For example, when circumstances change and a child returns to school, a homeschool report card may be required.
Here are tips for what to include:
Bible Study and Spiritual Growth
Resources used.
Books of the Bible read
Memory verses
My description of my child’s growth and the things she prays for faithfully.
History and Social Studies
Resources used.
Summary of the year’s focus, especially History and Geography
Language Arts
Description of the skills she has mastered or improved.
Attachments:
- Copy of a letter written
- Booklist of her leisure reading that she compiled
- Book reviews
- Poems she has written or other samples of workdone
General Science
Resources used
Summary of the year’s focus
Description of practical discoveries made and experiments she particularly enjoyed
Afrikaans (or other second language)
Resources used
Description of skills mastered or improved
Samples of work could be included too.
Maths
Resources used
Description of skills that were the focus of attention this year. Summary of child’s progress and achievement.
Sample test could be attached.
Finances and Entrepreneurship
Resources used
Description of activities, skills or concepts learnt.
LifeSkills
Computer – description of child’s competency, programmes she has learnt to use
Research skills
Library skills
Other
Home Economics and Cooking
Summary of child’s abilities
Art & Music Appreciation
Resources used
Description of artists and musicians studied this year and the child’s response.
Sport and Extra-murals
Description or list of activities in which the child has participated
Description of any significant achievements e.g. exams, competitions, awards etc
Certificates, photographs or other evidence of participation
Field Trips and Homeschool Support Group Outings
List of events
Letter of Affirmation to the Child
So many children become performance-oriented because they believe that it is only through their achievements that they earn their parents love, approval and attention.
I decided to write each child a letter that they can keep, that tells them why each of them is special to us and that affirms them as a son or daughter. I want them to know that they are loved and accepted as unconditionally as is humanly possible. We are commanded to bless our children and I believe that this is one way to do that and a good opportunity to do so too.