Short, sweet walk-throughs of the parts of a homeschool year that get tricky — written for setting up, and for getting you through the home stretch.
Read in order the first time. After that, come back to whichever one you need.
Guide OneAdding your children, your school year, your teaching days and your books — so that the daily list builds itself instead of being written out every Sunday night.
Guide TwoEvery book you add asks the same question once: finish by a date, move at your own rhythm, or don't pace at all. Answer it well and the arithmetic is handled for the rest of the year.
What comes out at the end, and who each one is for.
Guide ThreeThe Portfolio goes to an evaluator or an umbrella school. The Family Record is for your own files. The Yearbook is for your children. Same year, three documents, and choosing between them takes one question.
Guide FourPhotograph a finished worksheet and get back the two formal sentences a portfolio wants. Also: exactly what the AI never does, what leaves your account, and how to switch the whole thing off without losing anything.
Guide FivePhotographs, notes and the year as it actually happened — and how it becomes a bound book you can hand your children.
Two things worth doing before you set anything up.
ReferenceAll fifty states and the District of Columbia, read against the statute itself rather than summarized from a forum post. Notification, days, subjects, testing and evaluation, with the law linked where we could fetch it.
QuizTen questions on how your family actually works — not how you wish it did. Names the homeschool style you're already closest to and what tends to go wrong with it.
You decide what your children learn. Crow & Stone keeps the record of it — and hands it back when someone asks to see it.