I need to make an appointment with myself to work on K’s portfolio (I don’t intend to register, but I am planning to keep an ongoing portfolio anyway so that if I ever get involved with the department or there’s any suggestion of truancy I can show officialdom that our kids are not running wild).
Some ideas for portfolio-stuffing:
- “unit study” on homes (fairy house, birds nests, list of books on similar topics that we’ve read)
- photos or scans of some of the letters and cards K is writing to people
- photos of craft days at Katy’s house, JB/unschooling meets/park meets etc
- photos and examples of arty-crafty stuff
- “unit study” on garbage/recycling – photo of them sitting in the driveway in Canberra watching the garbo; pictures [to be taken] of taking our recycling to the tip down here; discuss differences
- examples of how maths concepts come up in other activities, eg. LHITBW where Laura and Mary are trying to work out how to divide two cookies fairly between three children
- I drew around K’s hands with three fingers raised on each, then got K to colour in how many pieces Laura, Mary and Carrie would each have to share evenly
- history – SCA/festival; Laura Ingalls Wilder; etc
- pictures/descriptions of the roadtrip
TBC…