Do you grade your kids?

[Mibellesmom]

Any suggestions to grade History part in RtR quarterly? We do not do the History projects. We do all the reading, audio CD's, note booking and narrations.

[Mibellesmom]

I don't really grade and I don't even want to show them grades. We are homeschooling with a private school, so my son can play baseball on their Jr High team and the school require grades..... That's why I am at a loss with History, Art and Bible. Everything else I got it figured out.

[LynnH]

I didn't grade until this year in the World Geography course. Maybe look at Carrie's guidelines for that in the introduction of the World Geography guide to get an idea. You probably should figure out what percentage each portion counts. For example completing the reading 25% of grade, notebooking 35% and narrations 40%. For the notebooking if they follow the directions completely and do neat work then they get full credit. For the narrations you could make up a rubric that includes the things Carrie emphasizes in the directions such as topic sentence, staying with the main idea, etc. With Oral narrations again if he follows the directions then give him full credit. Art you would follow same kind of guidelines as far as completing the assignments as directed. For Bible I would just "grade" what he does in the workbook.

[amysconfections]

I just started grading this year. More for preparing for high school. I do show my kids. I want to teach them that they will be working for scores and will not get perfect grades all the time. This is how the world is set up, giving grades. I don't want them to have panic attacks when they make a C.

So, I found this grading rubric for the History that someone created to use with HOD.

Each notebooking week is worth 35 points.
Work is neat 5
Color used 3
All items secured 2
No missing work 10
Followed instructions 5
Obvious evidence of time invested 5
Evidence of learning 5

Another thing to consider when grading: attendance may count, oral narrations may count, anything else you may think of that would normally count in a classroom setting. Part of post removed per board rules by board moderator.

[Nealewill]

Here is a link to the World Geography guide http://www.heartofdakota.com/pdf/wg-overview.pdf and page 15 is where it starts talking about grading. This is the rubric I would also use if I had to produce grades for something.