Fun & Free Track Your Homeschool Year Chart

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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 instant download (click and print) to track your homeschool year.

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.

Last year, 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 to 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!

Now that Xman is 4, I thought it would be fun to incorporate coloring into tracking our homeschool days. One of his goals is to color in the lines. We take turns coloring in a day and it’s been fabulous watching his progress.

Get Your Free Printable Chart to Track Your Homeschool Year

You can track your homeschool year, too! Use this free instant download to getting started. Just click on the image below and print.

(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 🙂 )

How will this printable help you track your homeschool year? Do you have another way that works for you?
Share your ideas in the comments area below 🙂