Homeschool World Forum

I was wondering how many of you actually grade, and at what level do you start? I grade spelling papers, but they are all 100% because I make sure they know them before I test, other than that we just do work until I know they know it.

At young ages I do not feel the need to stress grades but in certain areas such as math, grades help. They are more for me than my child or student. I need to know where they are having issues. When turning in quarterly reports here we are supposed to put down some sort of grade, for young kids I feel that satisfactory, outstanding, needs improvement or unsatisfactory tell the story. Now I do not see why a homeschool student would ever get unsatisfactory unless they just do not try but I see that more at the high school ages than in elementary ages. For me grades are like stadardized test, they are tools to help the teacher see what the student has learned and where they as teachers need to go from there.

I have just started hs- but what I have been doing is keeping track of hoe he is doin on his school work, flashcards and reading. My DS is only in 5K. Just for my own sake to know hen he has truely mastered something.