Welcome to our new series, all about Homeschool Portfolios!

This is post #2 (and video #2! Scroll down to see that)

Here is post #1: https://loveathomeeducation.com/2021/05/07/homeschool-portfolio-series-1-digital-portfolios/

Homeschool Portfolio Series #2: Physical Portfolios

A physical portfolio. Why? Here are a few reasons that we love physical portfolios.

1. If you need to turn in a portfolio to your district. This is a great way to show them physical copies of some work!
2. If you would like to keep SOME but not ALL of your kids’ work, drawings (let’s be honest, there are a lot of those right??).
3. If you are a kinesthetic family- and like to see AND feel the progress of the past.

A physical portfolio. How?

We use a simple folder, with some FREE portfolio printables for our portfolio.

1. First, choose your folder. (We use 1.5in folders, that have a plastic cover so you can add paper)
2. Next, print the portfolio printables!
3. Then, organize them inside (you can see how we do that in the video), and decide what you want to keep!
4. At the end of each week, month, unit, or workbook- take a few sample pages, hole punch, and add to the physical portfolio! (Take pics of the rest for your digital portfolio- and then THROW THEM AWAY! So freeing.)

 

Here are some videos of our physical portfolios:

 

 

 

A physical portfolio. What do we save?

We have a few different sections in our digital portfolio.

1. Beginning and End of the year About Me pages, and Writing Samples.
2. Math, Language Arts, Science, History, Tea Time, Artwork, and Extras.
3. Our planned schedules.

I take pictures of the pages we do everyday, or my kids in the middle of an activity. Sometimes I take extra pictures and videos, sometimes just the bare minimum. I then upload those as attachments to Trello for our DIGITAL portfolios.

As far as consumable items, I save usually the beginning, middle, and end of their copywork to show progress. I save fun things like flipbooks, some artwork I really love, and other samples of things like history journal pages, or a math worksheet they are really proud of!

This way, the portfolio isn’t too full, we keep just enough, and we don’t have a lot of clutter!

Any questions? Let us know with a comment!