Assigning grades

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  • November 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm
    crazy4boys
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    I’ve never assigned grades.  But one of my 9-yr-olds came to me and asked me to give him grades.  When I asked why he said, ‘he just wanted grades’.  Most of our studies would be difficult to do this with – we read history outloud and do oral narrations, same for science, with maybe a few hands-on projects or experiments or what have you.  How would you assign a “grade” for these more Charlotte Mason subjects.

    I can figure out math and spelling, but the others seem harder.

    The weird things our kids want!!!!  Just last week he begged me to teach him cursive writing!

    Heather

    November 5, 2009 at 7:52 pm
    CindyS
    Participant

    When a grade is required, I lean quite a bit on attitude in assigning a grade. Also orderliness, preparedness, timeliness; that sort of thing.  It sounds like you have a very sweet, teachable student on your hands! Praise the Lord!

    November 6, 2009 at 3:22 pm
    Doug Smith
    Keymaster

    We’ve done some previous posts and had some forum discussions on grades and evaluations. Here are a couple I found with a quick search that might be helpful:

    http://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/question-about-latest-newsletter

    http://simplycharlottemason.com/2009/04/18/when-grades-are-necessary/

    November 7, 2009 at 3:18 pm
    missceegee
    Participant

    I use some charts that I adapted from another homeschool mom -a progress chart and character chart. This is mainly for me to keep an idea of how we’re progressing as I tend to be forgetful. The character report is especially helpful to us.

    Christie

    Links are below if this might be helpful.

    Character Report – http://www.box.net/shared/4ekby66l8l

    Progress Report – http://www.box.net/shared/y1bf3yk807

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