Writing a homeschool transcript

27 June 2010

With the summer holidays approaching, last week has been a busy week.

I'm not only a writer, but also a home educating parent, so this is the time of year when I have to create some kind of overview of what our children have learnt during this academic year. As we're unschoolers, and I'm not exactly good at record keeping, I really, really hate this job.

Thankfully, I've got my Homeschool Blog, and lots of photos to help jog my memory. I store my children's worksheets in files, so I can find them back when I need them. Also, instead of getting books from the library and running the risk of having to pay high fines for not returning them in time, we just buy all the books we need.

I'm now nearly done creating my 11-year old daughter's transcript, and discovered that, although we felt like she'd been playing most of the time, she'd actually done an impressive amount of learning.

She read 25 novels, watched films of Classics and Modern Classics (on TV, DVD and at the cinema), learned some amazing things about dinosaurs and prehistoric times, performed several science experiments, and lots more.

Now, there are some subjects we still need to wrap up for this year, but now that I've got this great overview of what she already achieved, it's easy to see which gaps still have to be filled within the next couple of weeks.

I still have to write my 16 year old daughter's transcript, and how I wish a had a house elf to do that job for me!