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The below samples are actual reports that have been submitted (identifying information has been removed) . Keep in mind, most reports are acceptable - there is no specific manner by which to convey information. Please do not compare your child to others and there's no need to try to "pad" your reports to make it appear that you covered a lot. Your child may have spent months engrossed in some specific topic and that's acceptable. However, any reports lacking any detail whatsoever are not acceptable. An example of this would be: I'd like a bit more than this, ok?
 Sample One
Language Arts: Text Used Spectrum Series Grade 2 Workbooks: Additional text used: Websters New World Dictionary, Core of Knowledge Series: What Every 2nd
Grader Should Know, What Every 3rd Grader Should Know;
Topics Covered: Writing stories: beginning middle and end, drafting, plot, character development, proofreading, editing, final draft and illustration, journal and letter writing, study of familiar sayings, phonic blends of consonants and vowels, cursive and manuscript handwriting practice, reading silently and aloud, using a dictionary, looking up words and definitions, basic punctuation and capitalization rules, recognizing consonants, vowels, nouns, adjectives, subject and predicate, reciting and writing poetry, reading classic children's literature, spelling and identifying sight words, reading comprehension, abbreviations and titles, writing main ideas, writing in sequence, writing comparisons, classification, multiple meanings, word meaning from context, base words and endings, compound words, contractions, final consonants, initial consonants, long and short vowels, r-controlled vowels, rhyming words, singular & plural, variant sounds, vowel digraphs and diphthongs, cause & effect, context clues, drawing conclusions, facts and details, picture clues, reality and fantasy, word referents, alphabetical order, following directions, homophones, three letter blends, silent consonants, mythology, poetry, stories. Math: Texts: Topics Covered:
numeration, adding and subtracting up to hundreds place, renaming,
using decimals, using money, coins and dollars, making up a dollar,
counting money, finding costs and determining change due, measuring
time to the hour, five minute and minute, determining time through
phrasing (ex. half past Science: Text Used: Core of Knowledge Series: What Every 2nd
Grader Should Know Topics Covered:
-The life cycle of plants, simple machines, the seasons, the Library Books Read: The Body by Steve Parker, The Magic School Bus Explores Sound, The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses, DK-What's Inside My Body? Hands on experiments: experiments from the workbooks used, gardening: planted a garden, melons, pumpkins, corn, beans, lettuce, spinach, sweet peas, pansies, harvesting pumpkins and melons, used microscope, made slides, built a volcano, made slides, looked at them on the microscope, built simple machines and used them. Social Studies: Core of Knowledge Series, What Every 2nd Grader Should Know Text Used: Topics Covered: Multi-Media: Video: The Jungle Book, Big Bird in China, Reading Rainbow: the magic paint brush, Felisha Rashad multicultural series, Chinese American, We took bi-weekly trips to the library for storytime Library books we read: Fine Arts: Text Used: Core of Knowledge Series What Every 2nd Grader Should Know Topics Covered: Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Greek and Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas arts, crafts & music. Simple crafts pertaining to our studies of the body, weather, seasons, plants, etc. Projects: P.E.: Walking, biking (still learning with no training wheels), scooter-ing, swimming (learned to swim in deep end), ball games, skating Alcohol and Drug: Ongoing age-appropriate discussion of effects of drug, alcohol and cigarette abuse as it pertains to our personal encounters with the subject through personal observation, the media, etc. Foreign Language: Texts Used: Japanese Word Book, Teach me Japanese, Teach me Spanish Topics Covered: Alphabets, colors, family, numbers, clothing, school, food, expressions, objects, shopping Multimedia: Kidspeak Spanish and Japanese
CDROM Field trips: Other:
Sample Two Grade: 6
Language Arts: Text-What your 5th & 6th Grader Needs
to Know by E.D. Hirsch, Learn at Home Grade 5 from American
Magazines used: Kids Discover, National Geographic World, Dig, Zoo Books. Books read: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; The River by Gary Paulsen. Writes weekly. Letters to and relatives, journal and thank you notes. Uses reference material such as encyclopedias and dictionaries. Practices cursive writing. Using English from the Roots Up volume 1 to introduce Latin and Greek Roots, looks up words containing the roots in the dictionary and writes the definitions. Weekly trips to the library, learning the
computer system and finding needed books and videos. Math: Text What your 5th & 6th Grader Needs to
Know by E.D. Hirsch, Learn at Home
Grade 5 from American Reviewed addition, subtraction and multiplication
up to level 10 which includes Add hundreds, carry to the tens
and hundreds and thousands, from http://www.sssoftware.com. Filled
in multiplication graphs. Used mulitplication/division flash
cards. Multiplication/Division Bingo. Created place value charts
up to billions introduced decimals, fractions, and percentages. Science: Explored the three properties of water with
an online textbook from www.mathmol.com. Explored the solar system,
with a focus on Mars with additional information from a Kids
Discover issue called Mars. Learning to use a telescope,
investigating our night sky on a regular basis and then using
the Internet to find information on what we've seen. Social Studies/History: Participated in a mock presidential election.
Formed two political parties and created a platform. P.E: Weekly homeschool sports group activities
such as soccer and volleyball. Daily: in line skating, bike riding.
Tae Kwon Do-brown belt. Surfing classes. Winter:Snow boarding.
Took a hip-hop class with the Community Cultural Arts Center. Fine Arts: Took
classes at the Community Cultural Arts Center in painting and
drawing. Alcohol & Drug:
Ongoing discussions of the dangers of drugs and alcohol and the
effects on the human body and its consequences. Computer Skills:
Learning from scratch HTML code. Created a personal web page. Continues to update and add more information.
Learning how to program games on the computer using a Cocoa Program
for Mac. He has also uploaded his games to a kids section on
AOL. (and enjoys counting the people that have downloaded his
game). Learning how to type using Type to Learn computer
program. Socialization: Continues to participate in local park days and co-op activities.
Sample Three
English Books: The Education of Little Tree (Carter) Magazines: Fine Woodworking Writing -Daily writing in journal. Math Text Used: Concepts covered: -multiplication/division with decimals
P.E. -Daily walks (1-3 miles each day) Fine Arts -He continues to work on computer generated
graphics AIDS Prevention Viewed video presentation by Magic Johnson & Arsenio Hall on AIDS prevention. This was followed by further discussions. He volunteers once a week at an AIDS hospice assisting in the office and visiting with residents. Science Biological Topics Included: Wetlands - including plant life, birds, animals,
ecosystems Physical Topics Included: Wetlands - including geology, effects of weather Social Studies Geography: Basic map making skills Political Science: Political implications of commercial development
of tidelands History: Studied the history of the Negro baseball
leagues Vocational-Technical Assists father in various aspects of family
contracting business: bookkeeping; estimation of costs per job;
customer service; simple woodworking tasks. Applied Arts Computer studies on Apple iMac, developed
simple webpage using Adobe Pagemill 3.0 Foreign Language Taking course at local community college in American Sign Language (ASL). |
Best Loved Children's Poems,
cursive and manuscript practice workbooks