Hours, reading log and state paperwork
Log time by subject from your phone, see hours and days against your state’s rule, keep a reading log, and print New York, Pennsylvania and Missouri paperwork from your records.
Open Records on My Homeschool. Everything here works from the attendance and weekly reviews you already keep. It is a record and a set of templates, not legal advice: check each page against your state’s rules before you send it.
Log by subject
- Choose Log by subject on a child’s card (on Today or Records → Hours).
- Pick the day, then enter minutes for each subject, or tap +15, +30, +45 or +60. Add a note for the week if you like.
- Choose Save. The minutes go into that week’s review as hours by subject, and the day is added to attendance. If the day already had more hours logged, those stay.
A week you have already approved isn’t changed; open its weekly review to make a correction.
Hours against your state’s rule
Each child’s card shows days and hours this year against what your state and homeschool option ask for that child’s grade, and whether you are on an even pace for the school days gone. In Missouri, the 600 core hours (reading, language arts, math, social studies and science) are counted from hours by subject. Choose Hours for a month-by-month view, and Print the log for an attendance and hours log with a signature line.
Started keeping records partway through the year? Add the days and hours you had already done on the attendance page in Transcripts, under “Days before you started logging” and “Hours before logging.”
Reading log
Choose Reading log, then add each book with its author, subject and the day you started. Choose Finished today when it’s done. Each entry keeps the date it was added. Print the log prints a log of reading materials, with the textbooks from your lesson schedules if you like.
State paperwork
- New York: the IHIP (materials for each required subject and your quarterly report dates) and the four quarterly reports (hours from attendance, material covered from your weekly reviews, and a grade or narrative for each subject).
- Pennsylvania: the objectives by subject that go with the notarized affidavit, and the log of reading materials for the portfolio.
- Missouri: a record of subjects taught, week by week, and the hours log.
- Every state: letters (notice of intent, withdrawal, assurance, enrollment verification), the hours log and the portfolio.
Full names, ages and signatures are typed for each printout and never saved. The schoolwork you write on these pages is saved with the child’s records.
Life counts
In Log by subject, open Life counts for quick picks such as baking, farm or ranch chores, a field trip, music practice or building something. Each adds minutes to the subjects it touches (baking: math, science and electives) and notes it in the week. Change any of the minutes before you save. You decide what counts; most states leave that to the parent.
Library books
Add a library due date to a book in the reading log. Books due in the next three days, or overdue, show on My Homeschool under the child. Choose Returned when it goes back.
Your state calendar
On Records, Your state calendar suggests dates from your state’s rules for your option: a notice deadline, an evaluation or test results date, records due, and which children are in a testing grade this year. Choose Add to keep one, or add your own (an evaluator visit, umbrella school enrollment). Kept dates show on My Homeschool as they come up, and reminder emails go out two weeks and three days ahead until you tick the date done.
The record book
Choose Record book under a child on Records for the whole school year in one printout or PDF: a cover with a signed statement, attendance and hours by month, hours by subject, the week-by-week record of work, grades, the reading log, books and courses used, work samples and your state calendar. Untick any section you don’t need. The full name you type to print is never saved.
Keep it on your phone
On a phone, My Homeschool offers to sit on your home screen like an app. In Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen. In Chrome or another browser, choose Add to Home screen or Install app from the menu.