Saturday, October 8, 2011

First Quarter Report Cards

We are done with the first 9 weeks of school!  It all goes by so fast!  In last year's end of year interview with the kids, they requested grades and report cards.  I thought this was a good idea to help them see how they were really doing.  As this year kicked off, I told them that we would be having report cards.  They asked what they got for their A's ~ ahhh ~ I should have known.  Their public school friends get treats for good grades.  I didn't want to be locked into anything, so I told them it was a surprise.  Fast forward 9 weeks and here we are.
I found these cute report cards at the homeschool store in our state's capital.

I love the character building side of the report card.

The above pictures are of Little Red Riding Hood's report card.  She is struggling most in handwriting, which seems to be a theme among all my kids.  I left out music because my brain forgot all about that subject at 11:00 pm, and I didn't have any written grades for that subject.  So far, we have mostly been doing music appreciation, which in my opinion is not a graded activity.  I also left out Sign Language because that is done mostly as a fun and infrequent activity around here.

I found out that Chuckie Cheese will give 15 free tokens to any child who produces a report card with at least one A on it.  My kids rarely get to go to our local Chuckie Cheese, which is small and non-crazy during the day.  They were delighted with the surprise and I was delighted that it was free.

I am glad we decided to do report cards this year.  It gives me a real look at where we are and what we need to refocus/change every nine weeks.  Do any of you do report cards?

Blessings,
Dawn

4 comments:

  1. What a lovely report card. I love the character part of it. We are on week six ( feels like nine!)

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  2. I've never done report cards and have only given grades to my high schoolers. Do you do testing in the various subjects? Just wondering how you determine the grades. I do like the character part of it too!

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  3. I've never even thought to do report cards and didn't know that about Chuck E Cheese. May be something to try out.

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