The list of what I'm covering..., ...I'm going to shut up that CPS worker! Options

[nps.David]

Turner Home School: Subjects/Definitions

Reading*- to go over and take in and understand the meaning of letters or symbols
Writing*- the formation of letters to express words and ideas
Spelling*- the forming of words from letters
Grammar*- the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in a language
History/Social Studies-a written record of important events and their causes
Mathematics- the science that is concerned with numbers and their properties, relations, and operations and with shapes in space and their structure and measurement
Civics-the study of the rights and duties of citizens
Science- knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through the scientific method
Geography- a science that deals with the location of living and nonliving things on earth and the way they affect one another
Music- the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity
Physical Education- instruction in the care and development of the body

8th grade:

*All four of these subjects are covered under Language Arts

Language Arts- Independent Reading, Literal, inferential, and evaluative reading skills, Literary terms, Novel, short story, narrative poetry, Nonfiction, Biographies of great Americans, American poets and storytellers, Creative dramatics, Listening and speech activities, Advanced dictionary work, Extended vocabulary, Figures of speech, Spelling, Infinitive, participle, gerund, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct and indirect object, Kinds of sentences and their parts, Functions of sentence elements, Writing simple business letters, Report-writing skills, Improving skills in using basic reference sources, Inductive and Deductive reasoning

History/Social Studies- Our African, Asian, and European backgrounds, Exploration and discovery, Growth and development of the United States, (including) Colonial life, Struggle for independence, U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, Westward movement in America, American Civil War, Reconstruction, U.S. as a world power, (separate topics), Meaning of democracy, Our American culture, U.S. political system, U.S. economic system, U.S. government

Mathematics- Prime and Composite numbers, Square root, Order of operations, Absolute value, Inequalities, Numeration, Properties of nonnegative integers, Rational numbers and fractions, Ratio, proportion, percent, Finite, infinite, and empty sets, Basic geometry concepts and terms, Development and use of formulas, Perimeter, circumference, area, Metric and customary measurement, Reading and constructing graphs, Measures of central tendency: mean, mode, median, range, Elementary business mathematics, Use of calculators and computers

Civics- Citizenship, Rights of Citizens, Responsibilities of Citizens

Science- Scientific method, Scientific nomenclature, Scientific measurement, Ecology and environment, Ecology and environment, Conservation, Composition of the earth, Ocean, atmosphere, Weather, Water and its uses, Weathering and erosion, Recycling of resources, Magnetism and electricity, Heat and light, Forces in liquids and gases, Wave, mechanical, electrical, and nuclear energy, The earth

[Michelle]

Can your parents, or another adult who is familiar with CPS, and education, help you with any of the planning and putting together?

The list of what is to be covered is good, but the worker will also want to know how you plan to go about doing it, and also see what you have done since you have been home.

[Grammie]

Can your parents, or another adult who is familiar with CPS, and education, help you with any of the planning and putting together?

The list of what is to be covered is good, but the worker will also want to know how you plan to go about doing it, and also see what you have done since you have been home.

This is true. You might want to look at Notebooking They have some great ideas and it would take care of your record keeping. Then whenever you need to, just pull out the notebooks and the worker can look through it.

[mtbriere]

Notebooking is a great idea! Well, I think so because that's what we do.

Have you been able to contact the state support groups? That might be a good place to get suggestions.

[nps.David]

I will. I'm starting to feel the pressure of handling it. My mom is okay with homeschooling, but she's VERY disorganized!

And yes, I am getting together my ideas of best being able to tackle things.

[Grammie]

Sweetie, the notebooking would be your best bet. Then everything will be in one place. You can put your lesson plan in a document protector at the front of the book. Use dividers for different categories and a separate notebook for each subject. I think that website explains all of that. This is what I do with the preschoolers and it works out great! I changed it around to fit how we do things, but it still works. And they love going back thru their books to see what they've done.

[mtbriere]

If it would help, here is an example of how we organize things. We, like Grammie, do a lot of notebooking...

For my 9th grader (well actually for all my dc) I have a Portfolio with all of her information. It is a 3-ring binder. It has:

*an overview section(being what subjects she will be studying, what skills she needs to work on & how she'll accomplish them, etc.),
*a health records section (containing her physical records obviously),
*a report section (which will contain her transcript, report cards, and attendance records, etc.),
*a correspondence section (with all correspondence to anyone that has anything to do with her schooling such as potential co-ops, her homeschool academy, the local support group, etc.), and
*and a subjects section (with all of her lesson plans, tests, other handouts we will be using, ordered by subject).

Then she keeps individual notebooks for all of her subjects. As follows:
*Geometry is a spiral notebook with all completed assignments.
*Biology is a 3 ring binder with all terms, lab write-ups, study guides.
*Literature is a spiral notebook with all her assignment writeups.
*Grammar is completed in her workbook.
*Theology is a spiral notebook with all her assignment writeups.
*History is a spiral notebook with all terms, timelines, projects, essays, study guides.
Etc.