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Clarification of How
To Record Educational Activities on the Attendance Rollsheet
revised 1/10/07
Educational
activities must include a tangible action (implied or stated), plus a concept,
product, person, place or thing.
Bottom line –
if someone reads this brief description of the educational activity, would s/he
be able to visualize what the student did? Would s/he be able to see the
student engaged in the activity in her/his own mind’s eye?
The majority
of entries should be academic, not life skills, PE, home ec, special interest,
etc. You may include these subjects occasionally, but the majority of the
activities recorded must be clearly academic in nature.
Educational
activities are to be recorded in blue or black ink.
The
activities should be recorded on daily basis or at most every couple of days,
for the sake of accuracy.
Details are
good, but most important is knowing what the student did. This does not require
extensive description or details.
Indicating
completion of a worksheet, test, or quiz along with the concept/subject, is okay
without verb (e.g. ‘Spanish test chapter 5’ or ‘Math worksheets addition’).
Everything else will generally require a verb to clarify the activity being
described.
Good verbs to
use -
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Analyzed |
Answered |
Applied |
Assessed |
Attended |
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Changed |
Characterized |
Chose
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Classified |
Compared |
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Compiled |
Completed |
Composed |
Computed |
Concluded |
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Conducted |
Constructed |
Contrasted |
Counted |
Created |
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Critiqued |
Danced |
Debated |
Decided |
Defined |
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Demonstrated |
Described |
Designed |
Developed |
Diagrammed |
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Differentiated |
Discussed |
Dissected |
Dramatized |
Drew
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Evaluated |
Examined |
Explained |
Found
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Identified |
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Illustrated |
Integrated |
Interpreted |
Interviewed |
Invented |
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Judged |
Justified |
Labeled |
Listed |
Made |
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Matched |
Memorized |
Named
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Organized |
Outlined |
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Painted |
Paraphrased |
Performed |
Planned |
Played |
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Practiced |
Predicted |
Prepared |
Presented |
Prioritized |
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Produced |
Proved |
Ranked |
Rated
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Read |
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Recited |
Related |
Researched |
Restated |
Reviewed |
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Rewrote |
Role-played |
Selected |
Separated |
Sequenced |
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Showed |
Summarized |
Told |
Toured |
Transferred |
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Used |
Visited |
Walked |
Watched |
Wrote |
Verbs such as
studied, learned or worked on are too vague to identify a particular
action/activity.
Studied is
okay in the case of studying for a test or studying spelling/vocabulary words,
as one can visualize what the student did, i.e. reviewed notes or information
from text for the test.
However,
‘studied pyramids’ is not adequate, as it is too vague. This description gives
no indication of what exactly did the student do to study this subject.
Acceptable
examples
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Completed math charts |
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Counted to 100 by 10s, 5s, 2s |
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Visited science center, zoo, museum, etc. |
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Discussed air temperature |
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Observed butterflies |
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Completed activity #7 in word workbook |
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Discussed safety – what to do when lost |
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Read
independently – Frog & Toad |
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Sketched butterfly parts |
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Created math chart 0-99; discovered # patterns |
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Watched butterfly emerge from chrysalis |
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Participated in tennis lesson |
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Answered questions about a story |
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Read
about Saturn |
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Completed math lesson 31 about comparing and word problems |
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Studied spelling words/vocabulary words |
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Ran
on treadmill |
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Corrected errors in math lesson about fractions |
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Played software game on computer |
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Practiced dribbling basketball |
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Watched performance of “Little Red Riding Hood” |
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Practiced piano |
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Swimming lesson |
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Spanish test – chapter 4 |
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Math
– integers worksheet |
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Attended art class |
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Read
Charlotte’s Web |
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Completed grammar worksheets on subject-verb agreement |
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Began
creative writing story |
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Read
history text re: causes of WWII |
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Made
a diagram of photosynthesis |
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Did
air pressure experiment |
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Spanish – practiced greetings and completed worksheet |
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Read
“Physical Science” textbook – chapter on magnets |
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Completed chapter exercises – Civil War |
Unacceptable examples
Why unacceptable?
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History |
Too vague; no indication of what the student did |
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Math |
" |
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PE |
" |
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Spanish |
" |
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Language Arts |
" |
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Piano |
" |
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Science – The planet Earth |
" |
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Math
– Addition with hundreds |
" |
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Grammar, capitalization, punctuation |
" |
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Saxon
lesson 42 |
If
I’ve never heard of Saxon, I don’t know the subject matter or activity
implied here. |
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Studied animals |
How? |
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Learned multiplication |
" |
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Videotext – Number lines |
What’s the activity? |
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Art
class |
" |
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Babysat |
Limited educational value |
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Braided sister’s hair |
Educational value? |
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Fed the dog |
Limited
educational value |
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Graphs |
What’s the activity? |
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Disneyland-Cake
Decorating Contest |
Limited
educational value |
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Park Play |
Limited
educational value – Is this for PE? |
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Matter Density
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Too vague; no indication of what the student did |
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Finding Elevation |
" |
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Plate Tectonics |
" |
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Trip to Chicago &
Notre Dame |
Educational value? |
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The Dark Ages (A.D.
500-1000) |
Too vague; no indication of what the student did |
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Similes & Metaphors |
" |
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Boston Massacre |
" |
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Baseball |
" |
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Worked on Ancient
Egyptian Pocket Book – Religion |
" |
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Chinese-Rosetta
Stone |
" |
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Journal 4 pages |
" |
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History World
Religion - Jewish History |
" |
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Park Day |
" |
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Where Do Organisms Live |
" |
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History-Traders in
California |
" |
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Spelling Homophones |
" |
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History Lesson |
" |
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Biology-Nervous Systems |
" |
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Opera Unit Studies |
" |
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Reading Level 1 Lesson 5 |
" |
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Math #'s 1-20 |
" |
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