A typical school year is 36 weeks long, if schooling 5 days a week, or 180 days. Half days, teacher's work days and field trips are generally counted among those 180 days. Do you need a way to track your homeschool attendance this year?
It's important to keep track of your child's homeschool attendance and to keep that attendance record as part of your permanent school records. I have found that the easiest way to do that, in our family, is a check sheet for each child, and we simply check off the days in which educational activities take place. We can also use it to mark sick days, field trips, holidays etc. I try to fill it out monthly for each child, otherwise I tend to forget what happened when. At the end of the school year, I scan it and/or file the physical copy with our permanent records for the year.
Homeschool Attendance Record Printable
If you don't have an attendance record you already use and love, I recommend you make one similar to this!
Using excel or drawing it out with a ruler and pencil, The days of the month go across the top
and the months down the left side and you can just check off the days you “do” homeschool
with a total number of days at the bottom, and student name and year at the top.
This exact printable attendance sheet is available inside our Homeschool Library.
To see more homeschool printables, click here.