Have some awesome fun as you track your homeschool year with this free printable chart! Work with your kids to record your progress as you move forward in your upcoming or current homeschool year.
Find out how my five boys and I are using this chart and how you can get your free activity to track your homeschool year.
**UPDATE for 2024: I wanted to share our NEW chart that we’re using to track 100 Days in our homeschool! We love to celebrate our 100th day of school. This free printable set features circles that are just the right size for dot-a-dot markers.
Oh, and I also added a free 170 Days to Rock Our Homeschool Chart 🎉
Related: Take the stress out of your homeschool day with our free printable (and editable) relaxed routine planner!
Reasons Why You Might Want to Keep Track of Your Homeschool Days
Before I chat about why our family tracks the number of days in our homeschool year, let’s brainstorm a few reasons why you might want to include this practice in your homeschool record keeping:
- A requirement for your state: Does your state require you to keep track of how many days you homeschool your kids? Find out at HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association). If so, make sure to have some sort of system to track your homeschool days!
- Personal accountability: Do you tend to squirrel (like I do)? Or procrastinate (“Oh, we didn’t get to our lessons today. That’s alright! We’ll get to it tomorrow.” And then something else comes up…)?
- Visual motivation: Seeing how far you’ve come can really help motivate you to keep going and finish out the year. My boys and I love thinking back on what we’ve accomplished and what is yet to come 🙂
- Hands-on learning: Incorporate your homeschool tracking into your learning fun! Get your kids involved with counting by using small objects or stickers to represent each day. Paper clips, stickers, paper chains, and charts are fantastic ways to build this practice into your homeschool morning time.
Fun Ways to Track Your Homeschool Year
My boys and I love to track our homeschool days.
We live in Pennsylvania where we are required to do homeschool for 180 days. In an effort to track those days and make it fun, we’ve used some fun activities to make it exciting and collaborative.
In the past, we used a paper chain to record our progress. The paper chain was long but we were motivated 😉
As our homeschool year progressed, we marveled at how quickly the chain shortened. Great hands-on and visual way to track your homeschool year!
I try to include a hands-on component for tracking our homeschool days. The boys are able to participate no matter what age and it’s a fun way to include a bit of math (adding on and subtracting) to our homeschool morning time.
A few fun ideas that we’ve done in the past include:
- Paperclip chain (link 180 paperclips together)
- Sticker chart
- Straws (Start with 180 plastic drinking straws and remove one a day. Or start with zero and add on!)
This year, we are using a super-duper coloring chart!
**For 2021, we used a cool NEW 100 Days of School chart that features circles. Perfect for using our shimmer dot-a-dot markers 😉 And it’s also fantastic for creative ways to practice with a hundreds chart. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to get this free set.
Get Your Free Printable Chart to Track Your Homeschool Year
You can track your homeschool year, too! Use this free printable chart to get started. Scroll down to subscribe and grab your free set!
If your state requires a different number of days, let me know in the comments area below! I can customize and add to this post. I just added 170 Days to Rock Our Homeschool Chart to the files!
And here’s our NEW 100 Days of School Chart, this set includes two pages:
- 1 page of 100 Days Chart (with title 100 Days of School) and 1-100 in the circles
- 1 page with only circles (to be used for students to practice writing from 1-100 or other creative hundreds chart activities)
You may certainly print as many copies of these charts that you need for your homeschool or co-op. If you have a friend or co-worker who may like to use these free charts, I ask that you please share this post (and not the download). Thanks so much for your cooperation & sharing!
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How will these printables help you track your homeschool year? I’d love to see these charts in action!
can you email me the 180 days chart. i cant find the link on this page. Thank you!
homeschool02boys@gmail.com
Could you please do a 120 lesson chart. This aligns with our curriculum that we are using from The Good and the Beautiful. Each subject has 120 lessons to complete. Thank you for considering. 🙂
I am not able to get the 180 days downloaded for some reason.
We have used this for the past few years and love it here in Indiana!
Hmm…not sure why – it’s the same process of getting. I’ll email it to you 🙂
Will you email me the 180 day chart please. I’m having trouble!!
Sure! I’ll send to your email 🙂
In Alabama we’re required to do complete 170 days. If you have a chart for 170 days, that would be awesome! Last year I figured we’d just go for 180 since that’s the only printable chart I could find. Ha ha, my enthusiasm at the beginning was impressive! In the end I was just glad to get to 170 and call it a year. 😉
Oh, I could make a chart with 170 days! Give me a few days & I’ll add it here 🙂 (And email you with it, if that’s okay?)
Hey Laura! I just added the 170 Days chart to the files 🙂 I’ll email it to you – hope that’s okay!
This is my second year and I love all you do! Thank you for your help. My daughter is 6th grade in public school terms but she never mastered above 3rd grade math. So I teach to her level. Thank you again! We have to do 176 days here in Maine.
We are in Indiana. And we are required 180 days. I can’t find the image for that. I’m so glad you created something that’s so easy!!!
So sorry about that! There was a tech glitch so I had to change how to access the charts. Email me at rockyourhomeschool@gmail.com and I’ll send them over 🙂
Hi I’m looking to print out 180 days to rock our home school
Hey there! Were you able to print? If not, I can send the link to this address (if that’s okay?)
Thank you so much for the ideas and printable! I was hoping to find a simple tracking chart so I didn’t have to make my own, and this is perfect. 🙂
Love this idea! Our state (Ohio) is by hours. We have to complete 900 hours.
Ooh! The idea of tracking hours blows my mind! Maybe I should make some kind of tracker for that…
In Wisconsin, we are required 875 hours. I’ll keep an eye out for a new tracker😉
But in the meantime, I love the 100 day tracker!