Comments on: Organizing a School Room at Home

By: Surfin’ the Net: Waiting for Baby Edition

Surfin’ the Net: Waiting for Baby Edition — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:24:20 +0000

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By: FishMama@LifeasMOM

FishMama@LifeasMOM — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:25:20 +0000

Devon and Natalie, we’re going to be moving soon and our “plan” is to get the IKEA cubbies and implement the workbox idea into them. We’ll see if it happens, but that’s what hubs and I have “planned.”

By: Kelly @ Wisdom Begun

Kelly @ Wisdom Begun — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:17:50 +0000

What a great post! I am finding that the more homeschool “stuff” I accumulate, the more it is taking over. :-) I definitely need some sort of system to implement so that it doesn’t become one big mess.

By: Devon

Devon — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:07:32 +0000

Thank you for the great Ideas! I am starting my 2nd year of home schooling and my husband built me a classroom in the basement. I am always looking for ways to be more organized, for I too am an Organizing Junkie! I have found a wonderful way to organize their school work for each day. It’s called The workbox system. What you do is you buy plastic bins or shoe boxes around 12, depending on your child’s age. You number them 1-12. The night before the next school day starts, you fill each box with a different school subject: Example: #1 could be Math and you would put a post it note on the front telling your child what pages or what they have to do that day in math. #2 could be reading a book and how much you want them to read, and so on. That way your child see exactly how much work they are to do, and you don’t get are we done yet! LOL Also, your not trying to remember what you had planned for each child and your not looking for the supplies you need. They will already be in their boxes for that subject. And when they are finished they can stack up the boxes on one another as they finish the box to see that their work is being done.

If you have questions you Google Workbox System

Again, Thank you for sharing! :)

Devon

By: Lindsey Swinborne

Lindsey Swinborne — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:46:58 +0000

Wow, inspiring tips! I’m just beginning homeschooling and enjoyed your article! I’ll have to try the color-coding thing!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:46:04 +0000

We have five kids currently schooling. We have an ikea bookshelves containing many cubicles. We have given each of the older kids 2 cubicles to keep their school books in and the little ones have 1 each. They have all their books for the year in the shelves even if they are not currently reading some of them. I bought ikea wooden draws, the kind that has 9 little drawers. We painted them and keep all coloured pencils, erasers, glues, scissors, stamps etc in. We are better at not loosing all 6 pairs of scissors this way. We too are constantly changing the way we organize our supplies as our schooling needs change. I am not however very good about getting rid of unnecessary books.

By: Cristen

Cristen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:24:36 +0000

Oh what an interesting post! I would love to share some photos of how I organize my actual classroom at work. Would that be okay? I teaching 8th grade ELA!

By: FishMama

FishMama — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:26:04 +0000

I would lose my mind if things weren’t color coded. We’re moving to another, possibly smaller, house. Things are going to need to get even more organized.

By: se7en

se7en — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:10:00 +0000

We color code everything in our house, not just school stuff – everything!!! Otherwise we keep all our school materials in a dresser in our kitchen because we work at the kitchen table. This is our dresser a couple of months ago… and frankly I was so appalled at how much stuff we had that I did a complete purge and now it has about half of the stuff shown in this post (I should definitely a write a refresher post!)

http://www.se7en.org.za/2008/08/14/organizing-school-and-craft-stuff-in-se7en-layers

Our books are on a shelf in our “Book Nook Room” a shelf per grade, and all color coded on the spine.

By: Elaine H

Elaine H — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:08:34 +0000

I think that I need to get back to color coding my kids stuff as well. The next time I am near an office supply store I think that I will stock up on colored paper – different color of each kid and then a color for me as well.

We do have a large open bookcase where we keep the majority of our supplies though I have yet to figure out a good way to manage the paper issue other than just going completely digital which might work when I can get the girl on a decent laptop.