We all have them, days when we walk through the house and want to turn tail and run because there are messes everywhere.
As we move through the house, we notice there is very little that can be done with these messes…
What?
Where did it all come from?
Typically around here, it means we haven’t been home much or have been busy on the farm.
This week, I have been working in our office, as I got new shelves and that has made a huge difference. I also have been pulling out the tubs I used when we did Workboxes. We are again going to do this for our homeschool, though a little differently. I am putting together student assignment/record keeping notebooks for my oldest children this year. I have also made a daily schedule for our family. It will be included in the student assignment/record books.
I have also been printing off all our eBooks, Lapbooks, and making copies for the first few weeks of school. I still need to rewrite our lesson plans, but I am feeling oh so much better about them right now. Many have been asking how are organize our eBooks. To begin with, I have folders in my documents on my computer set up. Then when I print them, I laminate the covers, bind them with my comb binder, and write on the spines what the title is, then they go on a shelf, or in a workbox, or family box. If they will be used later and don’t fit in one of the above areas, they go in a file cabinet drawer.
My lapbooks, are printed and placed in file folders, then in a file cabinet or the appropriate workbox.
I have also organized my computer desk and work area. I have a new shelf (found at a garage sale) that all new books go into until I have time to enter them into our Home Library Database, and upcoming review items, curriculum catalogs and such all go there.
On top of that shelf I have a file organization center (another garage sale find) that eBooks that need bound go, our speech, and other therapy manuals are here, and our sketch books are here. All my blog things are here too…notebook, ledger, review schedule and such. My most used CD roms are stored on the side with a book end. On the top is a basket that holds all our family school materials.
I organized our baker’s rack in the kitchen and straightened my baking area on my kitchen counter.
I am working on our writing center tub right now…I need some ideas for it though. What do you keep in your creative writing area?
I need to figure out an accessible, but out of reach from little fingers for our games. My oldest two are playing games quite a bit, but then there are those little fingers that are causing a few problems with lost pieces, scattered cards and such.
How are you organizing for the up coming school year? Are you overwhelmed?
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Creative writing corner ideas:
~random pictures for them to use as a prompt.
~pre-made little books
~different types of pens & paper
~Create random headlines for them to create an article from.
Chrissy recently posted..School Planning Update…
We’ve gotten back to our normal school schedule, but as usual, sickness has hit and derailed us for a few days. One of the main reasons we school year round! My older three students have notebooks with their calendar, daily assignment sheets and copies of Daily Grams, Easy Grammar, Building Thinking Skills, Book Log forms and more. My almost 7 year old has subject boxes-phonics/reading, handwriting, math and thinking skills, Bible, lapbook, etc. The 2 year old has one drawer for each day that includes things like puzzles, activity bags, stickers and paper, color wonder, etc. I also have a list of activities nearby to quickly come up with things to keep him creatively occupied.
Yes, and Yes! LOL