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Recording outings, field trips and social activities on a wall calendar is a very easy and quick way to keep homeschooling records. The following except from my book Getting Started with Homeschooling, Practical Considerations, Australia's first homeschool manual, shows records from six months taken from one our calendars (1996). There are many more examples of different ways in which to record learning at home in my book, all taken from our personal homeschooling archives.
JANUARY
- Victor Cinema - Babe
- Bushwalk - Springmount Conservation Park
- Begonia Farm visit
- Roger experimenting with making robotic arms, two and three fingers, from lego.
- Thomas discovering and playing with the concept of spin on objects.
- April selling jewellery on her stall at craft market, swimming at Wirrina, staying Amanda's.
- Visit to friend's house at Willunga
- Thomas visit Dental Hosp., Adelaide, broken tooth
- Organised card collections
- Down loading games from PCSIG, using Paintbrush
- Walk around Granite Island
- Read James and the Giant Peach aloud
FEBRUARY
- Jimmy's Birthday - overnight, party with friends
- 9th pm: FOSAM -Bats, slides, touch, made mobile
- Woodwork - clinometer, geoboards, distance wheel
- Fleurieu HBL Network Willunga picnic, ball games
- April resumes school: Art, Computing, English
- Read The Mona Lisa Mystery aloud
- April holiday Stansbury with her friend's family
- Kids sleepover at friends
- Investigator Science Centre - Sportsworks/Mitey Sc.
- HBL excursion to Vili's Bakery factory
- Visited Austcare office - talk about refugees and information on poster competition
- Lego building - designing Star Wars Tie Fighters
- Roger - technical drawing of his Tower House, beginning to excavate site and level
- Thomas - visit to Dentist to fix tooth, filling
- Roger made a siren with the Dick Smith Kit
- Swimming and practicing diving into rock pool
- Roger visit to Optometrist, glasses
- Continued to write in journals
- Helped with renovating cabin - painting, grouting, carpentry and tidying up
- Capacity measuring device, joystick; made from Lego - Roger
MARCH
- 16th p.m.: FOSAM - Desert Fish
- Visit to Festival & Fringe - Visual Arts Exhibitions, Scientriffic and Aboriginal Day, Opening and
- Symphony Concerts, Cyberfringe, Art Gallery, Narabundah Theatre Co "The Wave"
- 6th: FHBLN Rose Gardens Picnic & Ball Games
- Stayed at friend's place for weekend; tried Internet
- Roger got a bantam rooster; built roost, feed tray
- Collecting compost material for gardening
- Helped with transplanting seedlings, thinning out
- Reading Dinotopia the World Beneath
- Lego building - spaceships, town with shuttle
- Journal writing and maths pages
- Visit homeschool group - social, played computer and cricket, rode bikes
- Visit to libraries to research environmental projects
- Learn and play new games on computer - Tie Fighter, Lands of Lore
- Thumbprint ink caricatures
- Helping with the gardening - planting, constructing new garden, mulching pruning
- Thomas started Worm Farm for Food Foresters
- Beach walk - Sellicks, drawing with ochre pebbles, found gummy shark intact
- April and friends slept down shed; Roger and his friends played board games.
- Helped build new compost heap
- Connected intercom cabin/house with Robin's help
- Visited Debra and Gary (first time in 8 years)
APRIL
- FHBLN Lego games day, problem solving games, paired and individual
- April excursion to Yr 12 Art Exhibition and Art Gallery in Adelaide with Yr10 group
- Roger and Thomas visit friend, played on new pentium computer
- Went to Carol and Phil's and helped to demolish stone wall for door using jackhammer
- Levelled soil in front of shed in preparation for paving
- Help transplant seedlings
- Discussed environmental benefits of ants
- 13 - 28th: Holiday on Kangaroo Island:
- Bushwalking, cave exploration, swimming, fishing, national parks, wildlife, visit to historic sites, lighthouses, seals and sealions, Remarkable Rocks (geology), Admirals Arch, witnessed small bushfire, visited replica of The Endeavour, played pirates, built elaborate villages and landscapes with natural materials for games (four times), honey production, eucalyptus oil distillery, visit to bird and animal park, beach walk collecting rubbish - Roger's journal eaten by a kangaroo
- Read aloud Devil's Hill on holiday
- Thomas, April kept up Journals
MAY
- FHBLN day - played chess games, computer games, children played in creek (Jill and her children were there too)
- Children's friends stayed over one night - Roger and friend came over late and played computer all day.
- L.E.T.S. BBQ at our place - lots of people turned up, kids went for walk to swamp and played together. April traded B$198 of beads.
- FOSAM - Taxidermist demonstrated how to prepare a tawny frogmouth for storage, walked around stuffed animal cages and completed worksheet. Saw couple of homeschooling families.
- April helped Robin make her a new desk. April helping with painting spare room ready for her to move into. Bought divan and painted it and the mirror frame.
- Roger and Thomas spent several days rebuilding and making bigger Roger's treehouse.
- Thomas repaired hatchet with Robin's guidance.
- Roger and Thomas lit fire for BBQ lunch, cutting wood with hatchets. Played by fire all afternoon.
- New game on computer - Pirates, strategy game a bit like chess
- FHBLN at Willunga - Robin demonstrated battery by making an organic potato battery and measuring current using meter. The everyone got busy for two or more hours building lighthouses and decorating them - use of electronics, soldering iron, power circuits and switches.
- Gave Roger new journal
- Olive picking and processing over two days with two other families; BBQ lunch
- Eastern spinebill flew into window and we kept it warm and April identified it using bird book
- Friends 6th birthday party - boys stayed all day, played computer and other games
- Watched Cutthroat Island - Thomas and Roger built lego pirate ships (ties in nicely with Endeavour excursion)
- Stayed with friends, cruised the Net, played Hero Quest
- Attended Learning Styles Workshop (Beverley, Robin, April)- boys played with other HBL kids all day with little adult supervision - indoor and outside games
- Moved April into Lego room. Spent a lot of time re-organising space and going through stuff.
- Made paper helicopters and experimented with size and shape to determine speed and drag factor.
- Collected pine needles from forest floor for guinea pig cage.
- Roger and Thomas replacing motors in slot cars from racing car set with higher power motors
JUNE
- Made one million using 2mm graph paper pad. Used 69 sheets and covered just over 4 square metres
- Buried Benjamin bunny.
- Began tree planting.
- FHBLN at Willunga. Investigated the properties of electromagnets and made some using simple materials. Played with magnets. Played computers. Jill and her children were there.
- 15th p.m.: FOSAM -
- Bushwalk - Kyeema Conservation Park, Willunga
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.Beverley wrote several books and booklets on home education through her self-publishing business, Always Learning Books. Beverley balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of ebooks on a variety of homeschooling subjects. retired from actively supporting home education in July 2008 to allow her to spend time on her garden and writing projects. She maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home. Beverley continues to support the Home Education Association of Australia as a committee member and helps to produce the HEA Newsletter, publications and annaul Resource Directory. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for either the Always Learning Books mailing list or the Homeschool Australia Newsletter.
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Getting Started With Homeschooling: Practical Considerations ISBN 1876651008, Paperback, 132 pages, AUS$25.00
Home Education Student Portfolio Reports Early Childhood Student Report Middle Childhood Student Report Early Adolescence Student Report
covers approximately year/grade level 7 to 10 (ages 12 - 15) A4, Spiral bound, 130g $6.00 (free postage)
Weekly Homeschooling Diary Naturally Learning Diary
Learning in the Absence of Education
The Homeschooling Trail:
Unschool~Kidz! Visit the Unschool~Kidz web site
also by Beverley Paine Aquadome, an underwater research station in the year 2024, is shrouded in mystery, hiding controversial genetic experiments and treacherous secrets. Psychic links draw teenagers, Katya and Coen, into an international conspiracy which threatens their very existence. 2002 Book store price...
Learning to Let Go
ISBN 1876651288 A5, stapled, 60g, 30 pages.
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PRACTICAL HOMESCHOOLING BOOKLET SERIES
Practical Homeschooling Exploring Approaches This booklet combines the notes of seven speakers at the Adelaide 2008 Homeschooling Seminar and Curriculum Fair.
Chapters in this booklet cover Charlotte Mason, Natural Learning, Unschooling, Discipleship Based, Relational homeschooling, Steiner influence, Unit Studies, and more! $4.50 (free postage)
The first in a series of booklets sharing Beverley's reflections, experience, tips and suggestions to help you become a more effective home educator.
Take the frustration out of everyday homeschooling.
Motivation in the Homeschool "If I knew twenty years ago what I know I know now about motivation home educating my children would have been a breeze! What I can say is that it is never too late to make adjustments... Despite all the 'mistakes' we made in the early years we couldn't ask for a better outcome. Our now adult children make us proud every day." Beverley packs in a lifetime of learning about how to overcome motivation obstacles into this 36 page booklet.
Answering Objections to Homeschooling
by Beverley Paine How do you answer all the questions people ask you about home education? These could be friends, family or total strangers. Beverley offers a selection of well-worn answers to over a dozen of the most popularly voiced objections to homeschooling you are likely to encounter. Includes a section on dealing with unsupportive relatives.
Write Your Own Unit Studies
Learning Maths Naturally
Frequently Asked Questions
by Beverley Paine Over 60 fundamental questions asked by families new to homeschooling are answered by Beverley in this 36 page booklet. 2004
The Spelling Process
The Writing Process
Learning to Love Reading
Developing Handwriting
Language Games You Can Play
A Sample ‘Approved' Learning Naturally Homeschooling Program & Review
Natural Learning
Learning Materials for the Homeschool
Translating Every Day Life
into Educational Jargon
by Beverley Paine . 2008
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2007 National Home Education This 4 DVD pack includes over 8 hours of conference speeches by John Taylor Gatto, Alan Thomas and Eleanor Sparks as well as the Brisbane Conference Question and Answer session. Includes Conference Notes from many of the Workshop Presenters. NHED Conference DVD $50 for International Orders [Please ensure that your TV and DVD player will handle DVD-R disc in the PAL format before purchase.]
Let's Play Together Traditional Children's Games Kathi Wyldeck's very practical Educational Games Booklets draw on her extensive educational experience with children and will help supplement your children's learning across the curriculum. Fast Games and Quiet Games
Physical and Mental Games for Families Book One Kathi Wyldeck ISBN 1876651385, 70g $4.50 (free postage) Outdoor, Campfire, Water and Theme Games
Physical and Mental Games for Families Book Two Kathi Wyldeck ISBN 1876651369, 70g $4.50 (free postage) Maths, English, Music and Art
Educational Games for Families Book One Kathi Wyldeck ISBN 1876651350, 70g $4.50 (free postage)  ScienceEducational Games for Families Book Two Kathi Wyldeck ISBN 1876651342, 70g $4.50 (free postage) History Geography, French, German and Latin Estimation, First Aid, Health, Tracking, Safety, Knotting and Navigation
Life Skill Games for Families Book One Kathi Wyldeck ISBN 1876651377, 70g $4.50 (free postage) Character Building, Handcraft, Aussie Flags and Emblems, Discovery, Nature and Conservation, Cooking, Self Expression, Tools and Construction
Life Skill Games for Families Book Two Kathi Wyldeck ISBN 1876651393, 70g $4.50 (free postage)
STOCK TO CLEAR EDUCATION CHOICES MAGAZINE Take advantage of this opportunity to fill in any blanks in your collection of this great homeschooling magazine no longer in production.Education Choices featured columns by well-known, experienced home educators in various practical departments, such as:
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More than 60 essays covering a wide range of homeschooling concerns and issues, such as late readers, value of play, socialisation, learning maths, part time school, and thoughts on testing. Follows the Paine family's progress from homeschooling to unschooling. An intimate and honest look at the day-to-day life spanning several years. Illustrated with clear black and white photographs and children's drawings. 
Designed to take the worry out of education and to reassure parents, these booklets are a valuable aid in the homeschool. Written by experienced home educators and teachers, each booklet offers ideas, activities or tips on how to help your children learn at home in the different subject areas. All prices include postage.
by Beverley Paine