Homeschooling, A Beginners Guide Part IV
For the homeschooling parent, organization is
never ending. There are thousands of ways to
organize your lessons, your schoolroom, your
schedule, your materials…..
The best advice I can give about organization is
keep it simple. If you have a complicated, color
coded, alphabetical, by subject, per child filling
system that takes ten minutes per paper to catalogue
you are not going to follow through. A spread sheet
works great.
Use plastic tubs to store each child s school
materials and have lots of paper, pencils glue and
crayons. Buy notebooks by the gross, you will use a
million of them.
Organizing lesson plans can be as simple as using
a colored folder for each child. Print each weeks
assignments and divide the subjects with different
colored paper. Personally, I print the assignments
for each week and staple each day separately. I was
taking way too much time hole punching all of the lessons
to make up folders. Now we just staple each days lessons
together and they take that days lessons out of the folder.
Finding the best method of organization for your
homeschool is trial and error. Try something for a
while, if it isn t working rethink the problem and try
something else. Get your kids involved. If they think
up an idea they re more likely to try it.
Camilla Ricketts is a homeschooling mother of two boys ages 9 and 14. For more homeschool resources visit thefrugalhomeschoolblog
and hslit-collections.com
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