Monday, May 25, 2009

School Prep 1

I am going to write a series of posts about preparing for the next school year. Even if you homeschool year round, you still have an ending the of the current grade level and a beginning of the new grade level. There are tasks that must be completed to insure a smooth transistion from one year of school to the next.



The very first thing I do to prepare for the upcoming school year is to clean out the children's "Work Buckets". The work buckets are simply dishpans with their names on the outside. The buckets hold their schoolbooks. I go through each child's work bucket, removing everything. I store non-consumable books for the next child, and then I decide what to keep. I keep very little.......I keep tests in a folder in my filing drawers, and I keep all of their writing. I think that this year I am going to bind each child's writing with those little comb binders. That will take up much less space than 3 ring binders. Finally, I put away pencils, crayons, markers, etc. that have collected in the bottom of the work bucket, and then I throw away all of the trash. Now I have a clean work bucket for next year's school books and supplies.

As the new schoolbooks come in for the upcoming school year, I place each child's books in their work bucket, and I store the teacher books on a shelf for easy access.

8 comments:

  1. I love reading your post about school! I can not wait to hear about all the prep work. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. I love hearing your ideas!

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  3. YAY! I am so looking forward to these posts! Thanks for starting them now when I am motivated to get get organinzed.

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  4. I'm really looking forward to these posts as well! I had already begun re-organizing and preparing for next year. Feeling a little overwhelmed with too much stuff on our shelves:) Thanks for posting these and lots of Blessings to you and your family!

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  5. Printed out calendars and a couple of planning sheets, looked through Jordan's curriculum for next semester and I am longing to put pencil to paper. However, I am hesitant to go that far as we don't know what our schedule will be for next year. Instead of homeschooling, we may be doing a mix of RVschooling. Oh, MY!! I am thinking lots of great science videos and LOTS of reading and listening to books on tape, plus tons of field trips and interesting things to look at...plus learning how to really get along with each other while traveling in a 38? foot RV. Can you say FLEXIBLE?

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  6. Roan,

    I have been cleaning my personal clothing closet all day. Actually, I been so slow it's taken part of two days! As I struggled with what to do with things all day, I kept thinking, "Now Roan would know just what to do with all these things!" You truly have a gift for organization! I truly do not!!
    Oh, I would like to link to your blog about getting started with walking/exercising. Would this be okay? Thanks so much for the organization tip!!

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  7. Hi Roan- thanks for this post, looking forward to the next installment! I'm getting organized for next fall, but always enjoy hearing about your ideas & plans. HOpe you are having a wonderful beginning to summer. I'm taking an improptu blog break but should be back up and going soon!- Take care!

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  8. I am looking forward to these posts, also. We start out our summer by burning all of our consumable workbooks!

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