Of course, this depends on when your school starts.  They are to be filed for all kids ages 6 through 15 (age as of September 15, 2006).  There is no real advantage for filing them for a 5 year old or 16 or 17 year old UNLESS you want to dual enroll to take sports, band, etc. etc. 

They must be filed at the school by the first day of school in duplicate. 

Here is the CPI form in a Word document that you can type into and print and save on your computer.  Thanks to Annonymous poster and to a poster to the Homeschool-Iowa yahoo e-group.  http://www.iahomeeducators.org  Go down to almost the bottom of the page to the link about the 2006-2007 CPI handbook.   Once on that page, there is a link to the form in Word format. 

Don't forget if you are using a Supervising Teacher or Portfolio teacher to get the teachers name and folder number to put on the form.  The teacher's signature and phone number are optional.  My rule is that if something is optional, don't provide it, but that's only my personal information. 

Immunizations - if filing for the first time (and they haven't been in the public school prior with their immunization record already on file) you must attach a copy of their immunization record. 

Required number of days of instruction is 148.  We homeschool year round, but because I don't want to commit to any particular number that would cause problems if we were sick and unable to school for some length of time, we just put down 148. 

The lesson plan outline - be pretty general about it.  Here is what I put on my CPI form under Subject - Text, Publisher, and Author - and Time spent. 

Language Arts - to include reading, grammar, writing skills - Various, including personal library and public library resources and internet resources. 

Time:  As needed.  (I put this on all subjects for time)

Mathematics - Saxon Math and internet resources.  (In this particular subject I do use a standard textbook and so listed it - but I did not list which volume as we will go on to the next when finished). 

Science - Apologia General Science and various other resources including personal library, public library resources, and internet resources.  (again, I do have a textbook, but not using it alone and plan on taking 18 months to 2 years probably to cover this particular text).

History - The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer and various other resources including the internet and library, both personal and public.  (There are 4 volumnes in this series of history books and we will just continue on to the next one when finished with this one.)

So you see, the CPI form is really not all that difficult and you don't have to spend hours making up the lesson plans.  While someone doing much more than they need to on a CPI form will not cause the law to be changed, they can cause the school to come down harder on the next homeschooler who turns their form in by telling them they aren't giving as much information as someone else.  If that homeschooler is knowledgable about the laws and confident, they can certainly refuse, but there really is no reason to cause a problem.  You're not going to impress the school no matter how much you put down. 

Nancy