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Avonlea Academy
Jul. 12, 2008
Portfolios!
So I am up to my eyeballs in portfolio stuff! Trying to make an unorganized person look organized at the end of the school year is quite a feat!  I do my best, though! I even have a gradebook program that makes a report card and shows our assignments for the year. (Never mind that if you look closely, it appears that we only did school on perhaps 10 days for the past year. Hey, at least I enter stuff in eventually. Does it really matter if I enter it on the day we do it? Does it matter if I enter in 2 months' worth of stuff on one day? Noooooo, I don't think so anyway.)
Well, so that's what I've been working on for the past two weeks--gathering our materials, tearing out pages for samples, entering things in the gradebook, getting pictures off the internet, getting our pictures into the photo albums, etc.
One thing I do to demonstrate the nebulous reading of books is to get an image of the book from our library's website. (If they don't have one, Amazon usually does, or I can scan it in as a last resort.) I put these together into a Word document and print them off to give a nice visual of the books we've read this past year. For our poetry reading, I got an image of the cover of the books we've used, and then I typed in the actual poems we have read.
It takes a little bit more work (sort of, but not really) and looks pretty cool in the end, nicer than a plain list of books.
I also scan in pages from books that I don't want to rip pages out of (nice workbooks, e.g., or workbooks we're still working through). And I scan in things like our cards for English from the Roots Up.
Another thing I do is keep a photo album for each girl for the year. Throughout the year, I take pictures of activities, projects, etc., and the pics go right into the album. It's not a scrapbooking album--that is too much work! It's a nice, pretty, regular album with slide-in pockets and space to write next to the pics. Every so often, I take the time to update the notes next to the pics, so that I don't have to do it all at the end of the year. So this is their pictorial portfolio, and then I make a binder portfolio that contains the samples of their work (or the lists, grades, etc.).
I will admit that I do use scrapbooking paper and stickers for some of those pages in the binder portfolio to show some of the things they've done. To call it scrapbooking would be a big stretch, though! I am no scrapbooker!
So that's what I've been doing. I still have all of the copying to do and then the final collating of images into documents. After that, I have the "scrapbooking" pages to work on, and then I think I'll be done.
After that, I need to plan next year. 
(Keeping busy is helping to keep my mind off of our friends' leaving.) |
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Jul. 14, 2008 - Scrapbooking and Missing You
I miss you tons! So glad for computers to keep us close through the miles and makes each day a little easier to face!