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Use this website with Beverley Paine's Getting Started with Home Schooling - Practical Considerations to help you develop your own educational curriculum to suit your family situation, beliefs and lifestyle. The checklists can help you identify your children's current educational skill level in each subject area, as well as find any 'gaps' in their learning, plan what they need to cover or keep track of what has been learned. As you can appreciate this website is continuously under development... It's our aim to add pages on a regular basis in all curriculum areas: check back frequently. We hope you enjoy the articles and activities and find the links and recommended resources useful. Over the next year we will be working our way through each subject area and writing fresh, new content. |
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Scrapbooks
© Beverley Paine, 2004
When we first began homeschooling I had scrapbooks for each child in each subject area. Eventually we narrowed it down to just one book each, as well as one for family outings and homeschooling excursions. Holidays, usually camping trips, warranted a special scrapbook which we took with us.
In the scrapbooks we pasted anything the children had written or drawn, usually on the backs of letters we'd received in the post. I dated these entries and often wrote a small anecdote explaining the motive or origin, if it wasn't immediately apparent. The children never produced copious quantities of written work, but it was clear from the growing pages of entries that they were progressing steadily in their language development.
Alongside their work we'd paste anything of note that had happened. This included celebratory menus the children had put together, bus and tram tickets, movie tickets, photographs, brochures of special events or exhibitions, places we had explored, dozens of lists, and pasted-in or hand-drawn maps. Sometimes I'd coax the children into writing a paragraph or two; other times I would write a small explanatory caption. Scrapbooks are a great way to preserve family history.
Scrapbooks can be made on any topic or theme: you could capture your child's sports or music career; her love affair with a particular toy (our children have a fabulous record of their LEGO years); be a complete year-long unit study on the zoo; be a permanent record of your children's investigations into local weather patterns over time; a 'friendship book'; whatever. It's up to you and them.
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