We've been homeschooling for a while, but this is the first year that I've been diligent in recording hours, as my dd just reached compulsory age for our state (MO). I know I'm probably making this more confusing than it really is, but I don't want to mess anything up. We are required to have 600 hours in the core subjects of reading, language arts, science, ss, and math. SS, science, and math are self-explanatory. However, we are using (mostly) Abeka curriculum, which includes phonics, reading, spelling, language, handwriting, and poetry each day. If we cover each of these daily, how do I break up / count the hours between the reading / language arts categories? Does that make any sense at all? :lol:
I lived in MO for a long time and have friends there that hmsl and we would count every thing we did as a hour, reading hr, lang.hr. you are doing a lesson in each sub, so if you still finish early is it still counted as that days work so you could count it an hr. for each seperate thing done i would count them all as a different thing. Hope I made sense!
Hi I have to log 875 hours in a year in the subjects of Math, Reading, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies and Health. In my state the law doesn't say how many hours of each subject we need to do. Also, homeschoolers aren't required to turn anything in. It is just recommended that we keep records just in case we would ever need those. What I tend to do is log about how long it took my son and I to complete a subject. For a subject like Language Arts I log phonics, spelling, writing and lang. arts workbooks. For reading I count if my son is reading a book to me or if I am reading a book to him. I hope in some way I've helped. I know some local homeschoolers who interpret WI hsing laws differently than I do, so we all do it a little differently. One lady I know says she just counts "school hours" from 8:30-3 except for lunch and a bit of playtime, but doesn't count bedtime book reading as school. I would tend to do the opposite and count bedtime reading as reading and not matter what time it is at. My kid might be out playing at 10:30 am instead of doing reading then. Every family is different.
Wow. So glad PA gives you the option of either hours or days. I was irritated about having to turn in a daily attendance log this year.
