So Its Been A Month

Actually it has been nearly 2 months since we started lessons. The time has flown by and it is already time to start compiling my first quarter observations.
Last year I typed a progress report each quarter (after about 9 weeks of lessons), and I think I will do that again. I included the topics we'd covered, a critique of our progress, books we'd read, field trips we'd taken, and any other information I'd felt was pertinent to the learning process. I didn't give my son grades, but for each subject area I assigned him a progress label, such as Excellent, Very Good, Good, Progressing. It actually helped me a lot to look back over the work my son had completed, reflect on what we'd done, and decide whether we'd met our educational goals in each subject. I then could use this information to make any necessary changes to our curriculum map.