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developed by Beverley Paine Spiral bound, 120pages, 158mm x 210mm These convenient A5, spiral bound diaries open flat to the current week. Leave them ready for recording on the kitchen bench, dining table or desk. Recording your children's learning becomes a breeze - taking only a few minutes throughout the day. Both diaries include space for evaluative and anecdotal comments; calendar; annual learning program goals and evaluation for each subject; homeschooling contacts, networks, resources, and addresses. If you are new to homeschooling and would like to find out more about unschooling and/or natural learning, the Naturally Learning Diary will help you 'see' the natural educational embedded in your children's everyday activities such as chores, hobbies and play. This popular diary has helped many families feel more comfortable about developing a 'play curriculum' and allowing their children greater freedom and responsibility in determining their own learning outcomes and activities.
Weekly Homeschooling Diary Set up with space to record main learning activities each day. Simple, easy to fill out A5 format to record daily and weekly activities in all subjects, plus space for comments, forward planner, brief curriculum summary, homeschooling contacts, networks, resources, and addresses. Spiral bound, clear plastic cover, 175g, A5
Naturally Learning Diary This diary includes a log of child-initiated activities, including play, as well as space for recording learning in each subject area, over a week. Simple, easy to fill out A5 format to record all of your children's daily and weekly activities - play, hobbies, interests, chores and more, plus adult-initiated activities in the nationally recognised eight curriculum subjects areas. Includes space for recording yearly learning plan, comments, forward planner, homeschooling contacts, networks, resources, and addresses. Spiral bound, clear plastic cover, 175g, A5... "Beverley's headings help me to remember to include activities that I might not have recorded otherwise." Belinda Moore
Why Beverley Recommends Families Keep Homeschooling Records I found recording our goals, objectives, and outcomes (in other words: what we want to do, the steps involved and how we will know if we've succeeded) on paper, or simply talking about them with each other often, a vital part of planning. Without it I often felt 'lost': the recognition and celebration of successful outcomes would be smothered and hidden by the worry of never doing enough or the 'unfinished' projects. My confidence in home education grew from a haphazard recording regime. The unfinished diaries, multitude of lists, the calendars, the photo albums, the scrapbooks, the learning programs and plans - all these scraps of paper are concrete reminders of our many successes as home educating parents. On days when I feel that I haven't been a good enough mum or homeschooling parent it's my scraps of paper that remind me that I did my best. That's why I keep recording... I've found it valuable tool for keeping me on track with what I want to achieve in my life. Read more articles on Recording your homeschool learning programs:
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network. Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 followed by many more titles on home education. She currently balances spending her time working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects and managing her extensive collection of websites and Yahoo groups. In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008, taking on the role of HEA Editor, and is responsible for coordinating the production of the newsletter, magazine (Stepping Stones for Home Educators), annual Resource Directory, and other HEA publications. |