Keep the moments that show what your child can actually do.

Evidence of learning is anything that helps another person understand what a learner did, what the learner understood, and how that understanding changed. It can be a page of writing, but it can also be a photograph of a model, a recording of an explanation, a revised recipe, a marked map, a reading conversation, or a project that did not work the first time.

A useful sample has four parts: the artifact or observation, a date, a little context about support and authorship, and one restrained sentence about what the sample demonstrates. A photograph of two cakes is only a photograph. Add that the learner doubled every ingredient, noticed the batter looked wrong, and rechecked the quantities, and it can support a truthful record of multiplication, measurement, checking, and self-correction.

Capture freely while learning happens, then curate later. A small representative set with dates and context is easier to interpret than hundreds of unexplained files. Keep jurisdiction-specific documents separately so the legal file, family portfolio, and transition packet do not become one confusing folder.