If I had my way I would run my school year from January to November, but I have to answer to the state of Maryland so we keep a fairly regular school schedule. After Christmas I like to start fresh by organizing our school cubbies. This means I throw out, file, and sort. It is hard to tell from the before picture what a mess it really was, but it was pretty disorganized.

For those of you who asked, I purchased these from A.C. Moore a few years ago. They come in several different sizes and are unfinished.

I purchased some file boxes from an office supply store. I think I paid $10 for 6 boxes. Each box was labeled with a child’s name. In the box I put completed work, future work, and items I wanted to save for that child.

I also sorted a large bin from the garage. Homeschool books seem to get lost in this big bin so I sorted the books by grade and added them to the file boxes.

When I was finished, all my curriculum that we are not currently using was stored in these file boxes. I even created a “mom box” to hold my resources. Now finding the books my kids need will be very easy. Also, our school cubbies will not be cluttered with completed work or books that we don’t need for another six months.

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