If you have to keep attendance, what do you use?

[Prairie~Phlox]

I am supposed to, but I go through each month and just check mark things, it would probably be easier if I had a smaller form that just sat on my desk all the time or something, so how do you keep attendance or what do you use if you have to keep it?

 

Thanks,

Phlox

[Finnella]

I use the form that North Carolina has online. It's one page and I just have to check off the days. I don't think NC requires use of the form, though they prefer it. It's very easy and doesn't require me to drag out my big planner if I ever have to provide proof of attendance.

[kalanamak]

I have a sheet of paper in a thin 3 ring on my desk. It has 31 little boxes across, and 25 little boxes down. On the wide left hand column I write math, reading, spelling, grammar, art appre, art projects, PE, HW, etc. etc. and I just make a check on the little things (our 5 minutes of memory work, or handwriting) and I write times in for history and science. This allows me to see quickly what we are lagging on. Any day where nothing is filled in, we weren't in class.

[ChrissySC]

I have days down the left (1 to 31) with the months across the top. I have a total at the end of each column and another box below it for cummulative totals. I check off the day when we do 4-5 hours of work, else it is a 1/2 day.

[kristinannie]

I have a sheet of paper in a thin 3 ring on my desk. It has 31 little boxes across, and 25 little boxes down. On the wide left hand column I write math, reading, spelling, grammar, art appre, art projects, PE, HW, etc. etc. and I just make a check on the little things (our 5 minutes of memory work, or handwriting) and I write times in for history and science. This allows me to see quickly what we are lagging on. Any day where nothing is filled in, we weren't in class.

 

 

That's a great idea!

[boscopup]

I think DonnaYoung.org has an attendance sheet you can print off, doesn't she?

 

I have to keep attendance, but I use HST+, so it does it for me. When I mark an assignment as complete, we are marked as "present" for that day. In January and June, I'll just run an attendance report for that time period and e-mail it to my cover school. It basically lists the month down the left side, then the days present along the row, IIRC (I haven't had to use it yet - first time will be in June!).

[Ellie]

I use the form that North Carolina has online. It's one page and I just have to check off the days. I don't think NC requires use of the form, though they prefer it. It's very easy and doesn't require me to drag out my big planner if I ever have to provide proof of attendance.

Since the law doesn't require hsers to actually turn in those attendance records, it's sort of a waste of time to do it, KWIM?

[regentrude]

I keep my records in an excel spreadsheet on the computer.

A line for each day, two columns for each subject( time spent and topic).

(Set up to add times for subject and for day)

Any line that has entries means we did school.

A line with no entries means, we did not do school.

[jer2911mom]

I use the blue calendar from Donna Young:

http://donnayoung.org/calendars/calendars-blue.htm

 

I have one I use for planning the year and one where I record the days we actually had school. I fill it in at the end of each week (entering the next consecutive number for each day of school or an "X" if we didn't have school). It is very easy to tell at a glance how many days of school we've had. I keep track of our work on a separate table I made. I cross through the column for the day on that table if we don't have school, so it is very easy to tell which days we've had school.

 

Kathy

[gracefulhome]

As I get ready for the new year, I print out a yearly calendar that starts with July 2010 - June 2011, for example. Then I highlight each day we do school with a yellow highlighter.

[Down_the_Rabbit_Hole]

I have a page that has 31 boxes down (already numbered) and 12 boxes across for the months. The bottom has 2 boxes under each column, one for total days form the month and one for days for the year. I got it out of this pack http://www.thehomeschoolshop.com/sh-masterplanner.htm it was the best $5 I spent.

[NanceXToo]

Here in PA, for the elementary school level, we're supposed to track hours OR days.

 

I don't bother actually "counting" either because I KNOW we way more than surpass them, considering I feel like my children learn something or participate in something I can consider educational pretty much every single day.

 

So what I do is submit a statement that says something like:

 

We believe that life and learning are inextricable and, as such, I attest that we have more than met the required 180 days or 900 hours of instruction requirement.

[KeriJ]

Since the law doesn't require hsers to actually turn in those attendance records, it's sort of a waste of time to do it, KWIM?

 

GA does require us to turn them in. Did you just mean NC?

[ScoutTN]

I think DonnaYoung.org has an attendance sheet you can print off, doesn't she?

 

yes, several. free!

[Dmmetler]

I have an excel spreadsheet where I record what we do for school each day-both the planned stuff and the DD initiated stuff. If there's something written down, we had school :).

[brownie]

I use one of the many calendars I get free. I x off days each week or 2. At the end of the year I find a calendar template in xcel and shade every day we schooled to submit to the district. Many provide less information, but I prefer to show it this way. Brownie