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.
Jacquelin says
I love those shelves, they would make great cubbies for my daycare. Where did you find them?
Gabrielle says
This is wonderful, I know because I homeschool our four kids and to keep it all organized is a full time job. Good work!
Upstatemomof3 says
I am so jealous of people who homeschool. I don’t even know where to begin.
susieshomemade says
Great tackle! You are so organized!
Christin says
Very nice! I can tell the difference. It is a nice feeling isn’t it? I need to do some tweeking to our materials as well, but not a whole lot. 🙂 Happy Tuesday! And great work!
Amy says
Great job! I am currently looking for the best way to sort and store our homeschooling essentials and this was a great system to see.
Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting says
Way to rock! I love that bookshelf/cubby, I need one like that!
Sherry says
Wow! Great tackling! Want to tackle my desk? 😀
Shanna says
Looks great! That is a great idea, I like it better than the bookshelves that I was thinking of… Thanks for sharing.
Lawanda says
*bowing* You rock the organization skillz woman. Wow. 🙂
momstheword says
Since I am now only homeschooling one child, we use two shelves of a hall closet. One shelf for his school books and stuff, and one for mine.
We do have plastic lidded boxes like yours that are storing hand-me-down books that he will be using over the next few years. The amount to store has lessened as he is the youngest and is in high school, so we don’t have to store as many anymore….sniff…snort!
Heidi @ Blue Eyed Blessings says
I am SO impressed by homeschooling mommas! Even being a teacher (before kids), I wouldn’t know where to start! I do know it’s a big job and probably one that needs a lot of organization. It looks like you have a great plan in place and got a lot accomplished. I like that you use filing boxes to keep all of your children’s work separate. Awesome (and relieving, I’m sure) tackle!