A Record of the Learning Lifestyle
by Charlene Notgrass
About the Record Book
Is homeschool record keeping a burden? Are you afraid you aren't covering everything? Do you feel guilty about not doing enough school work?
A Record of the Learning Lifestyle is a straightforward and effective homeschool record keeping system that helps you focus on the most important things in training your children. You can see at a glance how you are doing at covering a broad range of subjects; and you can give your child appropriate credit for all of his daily activities, not just his "school work."
A Record of the Learning Lifestyle gives you a system for tracking what your child is doing every day, 365 days per year. Each week you can see the areas you are addressing well and those to which you should give more attention. A Record of the Learning Lifestyle helps you focus on providing spiritual training, building character, and equipping your children with academic knowledge and skills.
The main section of A Record of the Learning Lifestyle includes the 52 sets of pages on which you record what your child is doing and accomplishing in his or her life each day of every week of the year. The openings are not dated, so you can begin keeping records at any time during the year.
Sample Two-Page Opening
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The three special features of these pages include:
- Spaces to record the activities of each day, Sunday through Saturday.
- Spaces to record the activities of the week in specific training categories, including:
- Spiritual Life: Bible Study, Worship, and Christian Fellowship
- Learning to Work: Chores, Service, and Life Skills
- Relating to Others: Character and Relationships
- Learning About God's Creation: Science and Technology
- Learning About People and Places: Geography, Government, and Foreign Language
- Learning About the Events and People of the Past: History and Biography
- Learning About the Thoughts of Others: Reading and Literature
- Being Creative: Art, Crafts, Music, Drama, and Other Creative Activities
- Learning to Communicate: Letter Writing, Grammar, Handwriting, Creative Writing, and Journaling
- Caring for My Body: Exercise, Sports, and Health
- Learning Math, Problem Solving, and Thinking Skills.
- One opening shows a whole week's work, so you don't need to flip back and forth between sections.
A helpful introduction gives encouragement to parents who want not to be burdened with homeschooling, but to be guiding their children in a learning lifestyle. In the back of the record book are four extra sections: Books I Have Read This Year, Books Read to Me This Year, My Grades, Test Scores, and Awards for This Year, and Notes.
Each child in your family will need his or her own copy of this record book, which can become a treasured keepsake showing the year's activities. We have six different covers to choose from, and all of the record books have a convenient spiral binding that opens flat.
How to Use the Record Book
(Left click on a link to open it in your web browser, or save the file to your computer by right clicking on the link and selecting "Save Target As...")
- Read the Introduction.
What Parents Are Saying
"It helped me think through the difference between doing school and educating my children. It was one of the best 'how to homeschool' books I've ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing it." -- Nebraska
"They will make recording [my child's] "learning" so much simpler and clearer. Please tell Charlene that she deserves a medal for coming up with the idea." -- England
"Your Learning Lifestyle book has been a source of comfort to me! Each evening for the past year I have used it, and it helps me to reflect, organize, and praise God for all our homeschool blessings that continue to flow!" -- Tennessee
"We *love* the Learning Lifestyle journal. It is the first record system that really fits the way we homeschool. I've been recommending it to friends." -- Kentucky
"The record book helped me to get organized and motivated, and it gave me the affirmation I needed that we were really accomplishing something good daily." -- Tennessee
"I especially have enjoyed using the journals as they have given the children a chance to go over their week with their dad and explain to him what they have been doing." -- Arizona
"I am also using the homeschool planner and it has been a very easy way for me to keep track of what my children are doing each day. There is plenty of room to write down everything they do from visiting elderly in the church to completing their math assignments." -- Oregon
"A Record of the Learning Lifestyle is great. It allows me to put all the info I need into one organized, easy to read place. I can tell which subjects we cover consistently and which ones need more time." -- Tennessee
"I love your record keeping books!!!!" -- Oklahoma
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