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to do everything within her power to teach her children
everything she knew and more. She had a plan to meet each
educational need with every resource and extracurricular event
she could find. She read all the curriculum catalogs,
downloaded numerous planners, prepared lesson plans,
and created her own forms for keeping track of all major
educational topics, music lessons, library programs, and all the
club meetings and activities each child attended. She created
her own "grading" system, maintained a calendar upon which
she checked off and color-coded appointments, tests, and
daily "learning" hours for each major topic tackled. At the
end of each day she sighed, smiled and thought,
"My Heart's Sure Generous."
Just in case she was ever sick or unavailable she created an
extremely detailed binder of information for each child, with
each page carefully placed in a page protector, which she
referred to as My Home/School Guide.
At the end of each day, week, month and year she created a
brief but complete list of accomplishments for each child and
thought, "My HomeSchool's Great!"
When her first child was ready to graduate, with highest honors,
of course, she sat down, put her feet up and said, "I've done all
that I could do." She then asked her child what were the most
favorite memories of homeschooling. With a pleasant smile and
a hug her child responded, "Mom, my favorite memories are the
days that you didn't have any paperwork to do. We read books,
played games, sang songs and had a good time. I remember
learning math and reading with some of those great games you
got me for birthday and Christmas. We did some great projects
during your free time." She sighed heavily and thought
"My HomeSchool Goofs!"
Beep, Beep, Beep!! Hmm, that was an optimistic
and fanciful dream. I do not know one homeschooling mom
who does or could live that life. Homeschooling is a lifestyle
which takes a lot of time and effort. Keeping up with
paperwork, portfolios and transcripts seems to be a
monumental task for homeschooling moms, especially in
families with several children. At times I've even known
some homeschooling moms who have said they just
plain don't have time to do the paperwork, nor do they have
anywhere to keep it all anyway. For all you homeschooling
moms that wish for the dream of organized and complete
records that don't take hours to compile and prepare, keep
records that don't take hours to compile and prepare, keep
reading! Your kids can have better memories than watching
you spending all of your time creating and filling in forms and
paperwork instead of spending one on one time with them.
I think you'll be excited to see what I've been
you spending all of your time creating and filling in forms and
paperwork instead of spending one on one time with them.
I think you'll be excited to see what I've been
checking out lately as part of the Mosaic Reviews team.
Da ta da da . . .
You have to try this lifesaver software!
My Home School Grades is the product of a home school dad,
John Echols, who saw the need to gather all the information
about a family's homeschool adventure and figured out a way
to manage and report the information as needed in a
user-friendly way.
John got together with Jordan Schute, a 2010 homeschool
graduate fascinated with computer programming, and this
unique program was created.
How the Program Works: After setting up your
account and password you'll fill in the following for each
student:
Enter each class the student is taking. Drop-down menus
are available to save you some time while entering credits,
school year, semester, subject, and student grade level.
You then decide how you want to grade the class--letter,
number, fraction, etc. You can use your own lesson plans
and curriculum to make these entries a breeze. You'll
also find drop-down menus for curriculum publisher and
curriculum by name. If you don't see your curriculum
there is an "other" category. If you want to be more
specific, MHSG will add this information into the menus
at your request.
With My Home School Grades you can manage, track and report
your student's grades, curriculum, extracurricular activities and
other events quite easily and quickly. At the end of each school
year you have an updated transcript already filled in from the
information you've been adding along the way. You can even
enter information retroactively--yes, filling in last year because
you didn't get around to it.
On the website are video tutorials to walk you through each step
in setting up the software to track progress from year to year.
A number of curriculum options have been pre-programmed and
show up in drop-down menus for ease, but if your curriculum
isn't there you can use the "other" option or contact MHSG
support to have them add in your information.
How It Worked for Us:
*This is easily one of the best and easiest software products
I've checked out for managing homeschool records and
transcripts.
*Setting up my students took very little time and minimal effort.
*The program is very user-friendly, flexible and complete. In
addition to tracking everything I could think of, I was thrilled to
see the flexibility in types of grading.
*The fact that the creators are very willing to hear your concerns
and make changes and additions to the program to meet your
needs is fantastic!
*One of the best things about this online program is that support
is available seven days a week. When I called about a minor
issue I was promptly connected to a real person (unlike most
service calls I get to deal with) who made sure he understood
the issue. My issue was resolved within minutes. I really
appreciate that kind of service!
*We'll definitely be continuing to use My Home School Grades
for our record keeping needs. I'll have an easily created transcript
in a couple of years when my daughter needs it, and I'll have
complete records for our son who is just starting. This program
is a time saver I'd recommend to all of my homeschool friends.
*Although we only have a couple of students, I think this is a
very reasonably priced program, especially since the number of
students is unlimited and users receive a lifetime membership.
How the Program Works: After setting up your
account and password you'll fill in the following for each
student:
Enter each class the student is taking. Drop-down menus
are available to save you some time while entering credits,
school year, semester, subject, and student grade level.
You then decide how you want to grade the class--letter,
number, fraction, etc. You can use your own lesson plans
and curriculum to make these entries a breeze. You'll
also find drop-down menus for curriculum publisher and
curriculum by name. If you don't see your curriculum
there is an "other" category. If you want to be more
specific, MHSG will add this information into the menus
at your request.
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| Adding a Student (can even add picture!) |
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| Adding a Class for a Student |
After you've added all of your student's classes you'll want to
enter your student's activities such as scouts, church programs,
music, 4-H, etc. You'll also find places to fill in descriptions,
awards and references.
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| Adding an Activity |
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| Example of Project Details for 4-H |
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| Example of Class Details |
With My Home School Grades you can manage, track and report
your student's grades, curriculum, extracurricular activities and
other events quite easily and quickly. At the end of each school
year you have an updated transcript already filled in from the
information you've been adding along the way. You can even
enter information retroactively--yes, filling in last year because
you didn't get around to it.
On the website are video tutorials to walk you through each step
in setting up the software to track progress from year to year.
A number of curriculum options have been pre-programmed and
show up in drop-down menus for ease, but if your curriculum
isn't there you can use the "other" option or contact MHSG
support to have them add in your information.
How It Worked for Us:
*This is easily one of the best and easiest software products
I've checked out for managing homeschool records and
transcripts.
*Setting up my students took very little time and minimal effort.
*The program is very user-friendly, flexible and complete. In
addition to tracking everything I could think of, I was thrilled to
see the flexibility in types of grading.
*The fact that the creators are very willing to hear your concerns
and make changes and additions to the program to meet your
needs is fantastic!
*One of the best things about this online program is that support
is available seven days a week. When I called about a minor
issue I was promptly connected to a real person (unlike most
service calls I get to deal with) who made sure he understood
the issue. My issue was resolved within minutes. I really
appreciate that kind of service!
*We'll definitely be continuing to use My Home School Grades
for our record keeping needs. I'll have an easily created transcript
in a couple of years when my daughter needs it, and I'll have
complete records for our son who is just starting. This program
is a time saver I'd recommend to all of my homeschool friends.
*Although we only have a couple of students, I think this is a
very reasonably priced program, especially since the number of
students is unlimited and users receive a lifetime membership.
If you'd like more information about the program features
and ways to use this program in your home you'll want to
visit My Home School Grades. Try a 14 day free trial to see how
visit My Home School Grades. Try a 14 day free trial to see how
useful and easy record keeping could be for your family.
After you've tried the program I'm confident that you'll be
signing up for a lifetime family membership, at the very
reasonable price of just $49.99, which covers all of your
children through their academic years. Psst! Your
membership even includes all future updates and
enhancements to the program.
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1 comment:
Creative post, I've had those types of dreams too!
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