School Records

I just filled out our school records/grades. We just "officially" finished our school a little over a week ago (it seems we took a lot of extra weeks off during the year, so our school year dragged into the end of July - so, while everybody else is talking about what a great summer they had and gearing up for the new year, we're just starting our abbreviated summer vacation!)

I enjoy planning for school, and I feel like we're doing okay, covering lots of material, and I know my kids are learning . . . but when it comes time to fill out the grade reports, my confidence wavers and I begin to envy people doing a 'standard textbook' curriculum that gives quizzes and tests to base grades on and 'prove' that such-and-such was learned. What exactly are my kids supposed to know about geography, anyway? I know we've never memorized the 50 state capitals. My kids are reading about interesting people and places, but we have no flour-and-water relief maps or unit book reports to show. How do I know what kind of a grade my kids should get??

Anyway, grades are done, for better or worse, and it's another half year before I have to think about it again.