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School Planning: Printable Blank Course of Study Form for the Upper Grades

[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ast year, I posted a Course of Study form for the elementary grades. There are a number available online, but I was trying to make one that worked for a living books curriculum, and included the categories that Charlotte Mason included in the elementary grades {which our local schools usually start in junior high or high school}. For this year, being our first year of the Upper School years, I created a new form that fits California’s criteria for the Continue Reading…
August 8, 2014
Seven Quick Takes: Where Did I Go? Edition

Monday was our thirteenth anniversary, but we celebrated on Saturday. My parents took the children for Friday and Saturday night so that we could make a big daytrip on Saturday. We left at 6:00 AM and returned at 9:00 PM. I had actually kept two baby goats longer than I normally would, just so that I wouldn’t have to milk a goat before I left. {I let the babies do it for me.} And yes, I did sell those babies right Continue Reading…
May 9, 2014
School Prep: Legally Required Records for Independent Private Schools in the State of California

So I’m getting lots of emails and comments and messages from various places. Posting the Course of Study information yesterday freaked a few people out! I understand. I remember when I first read through the information on the affidavit and realized I had been doing it wrong, wrong, wrong. Not to worry. It is actually very simple, though also this is the reason why some people pay for a PSP {Private School Satellite Program} to keep files for them {among other Continue Reading…
July 26, 2013
School Prep: Course of Study Forms

There are a few ways to homeschool legally in California, and one of them is to create your own {very small} private school. This is what I have always chosen to do. This means that I have to keep my own records; I don’t have any sort of umbrella school keeping records for me. There is a common misconception that independent homeschoolers do not have to keep records. For example, I had this misconception in the past! Oops. Ahem. There are Continue Reading…
July 25, 2013