“A place for everything, everything in its place.”
~ Isabella Mary Beeton
All those wonderful purchases from the homeschool conventions, used books that you viewed as jewels when you found them for pennies at thrift stores and resources you have accumulated along the way from friends, can really bring down your cheer as it grows into mountains of messes. What I have found helpful is storing my "stuff" in clear plastic storage boxes by subjects. This is a perfect way to add order to the homeschool. (The 16 quart plastic containers seem to work best as they hold most sized books and videos, are stackable and cost just a few dollars each.)
You may have to take a moment to sort all your materials and divide into subjects but it is well worth it! We do mostly unit studies so ours go something like this; insects, birds, plants, animals, geography, ancient history, U.S. history, etc. Yours may go something like math, language arts, history, etc., or you may label according to each child's work or each grade. Once everything is sorted into some sort of category, label the containers appropriately with a label maker or print out some decorative ones.
You may have to take a moment to sort all your materials and divide into subjects but it is well worth it! We do mostly unit studies so ours go something like this; insects, birds, plants, animals, geography, ancient history, U.S. history, etc. Yours may go something like math, language arts, history, etc., or you may label according to each child's work or each grade. Once everything is sorted into some sort of category, label the containers appropriately with a label maker or print out some decorative ones.
You will have more peace in your homeschool when everything at least looks peaceful!
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All the fine print. This post may be shared with some or all of the following link-ups: The Art of Home-Making Mondays, Modest Mom Monday's, Monday's Musings, Make Your Home Sing Monday, Good Morning Mondays, The Scoop, Titus 2 Tuesdays, Tuesdays with a Twist, Raising Homemakers, Wise Woman Link Up, Homestead Blog Hop, Wow Us Wednesdays, Coffee and Conversation, Homemaking Thursdays, Home Sweet Home, Our Simple Homestead, From the Farm Blog Hop, Front Porch Friday Blog Hop, Awesome Life Friday Link Up, Five Star Frou Frou Friday, Shabbilicious Friday, Simply Natural Saturdays and Clever Chicks Blog Hop. Thank you lovely ladies for hosting these. This post may contain affiliate links (which are merchant links that help to support this site at no additional cost to you if you purchase an item through them).
Thanks for the idea. My 5 shelves are ful and its only my first year.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to my world :) And it is a fun place to be... full of books and adventures, science and nature, globes and maps and all kinds of great fun! I have too many of these plastic containers full of goodies that I am too embarrassed to even put in print!!! But order does help. Thanks for visiting :)
DeleteYes, the workbox system works well for us. I find especially helpful.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up. Beautiful blog you have here.
Blessings,
Jasmine
Domestically Divine