Last weekend I bought myself a teachers record book. There's nothing special about it, not really. Over the last week I've been pulling together all the 'seeable' work that we have been doing since the beginning of the year. I haven't been relying on my memory at all. Only looking at work that I can varify by pages signed off by me, photos, or a project completed. The only records I haven't put in there is the learning that I've recorded here on my blog. That will have to wait for another time.

I've been in this place before, a few times now, where I've been out of the habit of recording our learning and journaling what the children have been doing. When I don't record I am eventually left feeling like we aren't getting anywhere. This time has been slightly different in that i've been blogging so the reminder has been there as I go back over the past couple of months of entries and piccies. Anyway, I've had THAT feeling of dissatisfaction with what I am perceiving we aren't doing. That I'm not doing enough AGAIN! Most of you probably know where I'm coming from with this.

So in pulling together all the children's work into one record book I am looking at some solid work. The learning has come in various forms: workbooks, read alouds (Bible and Chronicles of Narnia being the main-stay), excursions, progressing through Phonics Pathways, discussions, television programs, DVDs, copywork, building relationships, life experiences like moving to a foriegn country, life in the tropics, nature study from great books and real life, learning a different language, building with lego, creative play, learning to knit with Grandma and sewing with Oma. And that's only the learning that I've recorded and/or observed. God is the only one who knows about the other learning that is inevitably going on.