I wonder how much history my children are learning. I have my dc in LG and D this year. I have them read their history and literature books and I do the read-alouds. I will read some of the LG books to them and they read some on their own. I usually have them read the history-in-depth too (or I read to the LG). I have my D students answer the Accountability questions as best as possible so we can discuss the answers at the end of the week. At the beginning of the week I usually go over what we'll be studying. I don't have them take the evaluation except on rare occasions. Then we move to the next week. I just wonder if they are "getting it". I have the evaluations for each level. I don't use them because that would be one more thing for me to fit in and because it seems that for the D students it may be too difficult for my kids to answer especially if it involves alot of writing. uggh!

Does anyone do things differently than I listed above? Am I on track here?

Sue it sounds like you are on track. I have my D level student do all his reading. And I use a mix of the evaluations, probably no more than one or two quizzes each unit. But I do ask him to do the unit test as well.

Sue,

Yes, you are on the right track. I do not have my children (LG, UG, and D) do any evaluations. The writing assignments, Accountability Questions, and discussions let me know that they are learning. Every week or two my children make some kind of page for their notebooks, in addition to the maps and writing assignments. We are on Year 2 so an example of these pages is a diagram about feudalism or a Code of Chivaly. I strive to have my children show what they know - to report about what was interesting or important to them in their reading.

Many blessings in your homeschooling,
Jfurlough

eewww. I love that idea about a notebook page. I always think about what Winston Churchill said about tests...he hated them because they always tried to find out what didn't know vs. what he did know he didn't know vs. what he did know.