Name: Thrive! NCHE Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-05-22T00:00:00-05:00
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Tagged: CM organizer, cmo, Notes in CM Organizer

This topic has 4 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 2 months ago by TLCmom.

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March 6, 2013 at 5:33 pm
TLCmom
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My kids are inspired to do extra activies from reading living books and I want to record it as school. For example, my daughter and I read a book about birds together(I had recorded this in the organizer). After we read it my daughter was inspired to make a game to remember the parts of a bird. She made cards and drew a picture on each card and labeled the picture, leg, breast, tail, crown, ect. Then I held each card up, covering the word, and the first to guess the word gets the card. The winner is the one with the most cards at the end. She also drew a bird, labeled it put it in her bird notebook (that she started on her own). How would put these in the CM organizer?
March 6, 2013 at 5:52 pm
Katrina in AK
Participant
Many times, when I do extra stuff, I just enter it in the notes for that resource. So, from our recent past, we read a book about volcanoes, and did the classic baking soda/vinegar experiment. Alongside the book, I just typed a note: Baking soda volcano. In reports, you can bring up those notes, and see when you did them.
Another thing I will do is put fun activities in the notes at the top of the page for the day: “Field trip to the museum to see volcanic rocks, play with wax volcano, look at tsunami exhibit.”
If it’s a game you want to play over again, you can add it in as a new resource.
Does that help at all?
BTW, I love the bird part game idea, and since we’re doing birds now, would your daughter mind if I use her idea?
March 6, 2013 at 6:06 pm
ServingwithJoy
Participant
I love how your kids took off with their bird assignment (and yes, that was a pun…).
I have no advice on the organizer, but I did want to share what a friend does to record neat things like this:
She takes digital photos of special field trips, crafts and extra assignments, labels them digitally, and then prints a Snapfish paper photo album with all the pictures for each year.
It looks great and is a quick and very space saving way to keep track of all those special moments and little things in our homeschooling lives. And, of course, it brings back lots of fun memories as well.
March 6, 2013 at 7:02 pm
Laura.bora
Participant
I would just go to the add a resource and add in “made a bird game” or “Drew and labled a bird in nature notebook”. You can add a note to help you remember details, and then mark it complete.
March 7, 2013 at 12:08 am
TLCmom
Participant
Thank you all for the advice and ideas. Yes, katrina you can use the game idea. It really was fun!