Keeping records in the early years was very simple in our homeschool. I just used my homeschool planner to add the notes on what we did each week.
That came in handy when we did informal annual assessments at the end of the year. For that, I needed to summarize what we had done to share that with our assessment teacher.
When we hit the high school years, things got a lot more formal...
When we hit the high school years, things got a lot more formal...