Over the years, I have wished to have more professional records, or portfolios for our homeschool. I really don’t care that my planning pages are all fill in the blank type, but the what we have done, read, and so forth, I wanted to be more professional.
Several years ago, I had purchased Homeschool Tracker Plus, but never really got the hang of it. Actually, I tried to use all the features all the time, and was overwhelmed. This year, I am making daily task list.
First, I have scheduled all our daily chores, then I go through and set up their daily assignments.
When I go to reports I set up the Daily Task List, and it imports the plans for both school and chores. I print these off and place them in each child’s school and chore notebook. There are little check boxes that they check off as they complete each task.
The best part of this, is that as I assign each assignment, it gives me a place to come back and add a grade, then it imports the grades to the report card.
- There are also progress reports too.
- field trip log
- reading log
- Among many other great features.
So far, this year, after really digging in to find what features are best for us, I have found it worth my forty-five minutes of time a week to input the needed information. All our resources are in here also. You can add them super easily by ISBN or typing all the information if there is no ISBN. Below are some screen shots from our use of HST.
This is a picture of the field trip log on screen.
This is the reading list, that is way behind. 
This is a screen shot of our assignment list for about 1.5 days.
This is a screen shot of the available reports. Each report is full customizable. All information for the reports are entered through the various generators from the other tasks.
This is a look at the attendance window. You can track your attendance through this window by clicking on the day. You can also track the hours, by entering them as well. I track all hours of school related tasks and such from our weekends also, as we have a goal of life long learning, so most of our activities are kept track of.
This is our daily task list complete with assignments and chores. When I remember, I add their assigned reading books, and memorization for the week. I tend to forget that is available. lol
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Even though I use this for our reports and such. All my plans, as in, the forms I use to think out our task for the year are in my Household Notebook.
The daily task list reports printed for my students notebook, have made a world of difference for my special needs child by helping him know what to be doing. It has lessoned my interruptions that are typically related to what do I do now, I didn’t know that, and so forth.
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