Back to school shopping for an organized homeschool
August 27, 2009 by admin
Filed under Home Education
We’ve all heard the saying, “A place for everything and everything in its place,” but what do you do when the everything outgrows the places?
Bookshelves and inexpensive plastic crates can become a homeschooler’s best friends, and now is the best time to buy them. With back to school and off to college sales going on, Meijers, Target, Walmart and K-Mart carry a wide assortment of shelves and school storage items, and the prices are reasonable, so if need be you can purchase several.
“The key to good organization is not a one-size-fits-all method,” says Karen Ehman, homeschool mom and author of The Complete Guide to Getting and Staying Organized. While some homeschool families sell their used books each spring, it is common for homeschool families, especially those with children in multiple grades, to accumulate and keep a multitude of books from year to year.
Consider the following storage and organization ideas:
- If your family’s preferred school location is the dining room table and your dining room has a built-in china cabinet, use it for school supplies instead.
- Consider organizing a book shelf (with or without doors) so that each student has a shelf for his or her individual books.
- Inexpensive plastic crates can be turned on their sides to serve as portable bookshelves.
- If your students do school in a different room from where their books are stored use a crate to store the curriculum. The crate can easily be carried to wherever school is being done and then returned to wherever you store your curriculum. (Make sure you have a place to store the crates – a tall bottom shelf is a great place to keep them.)
Other items to stock up on during this back to school shopping season are backpacks, spiral notebooks, pens, pencils, binders, notebook paper and other office supply items.
After organizing your bookshelves, you’ll want to visit the Home School Building Bookstore, 5625 Burlingame Ave. SW in Wyoming to pick up another key organizational tool for a successful homeschool year, your lesson planning and/or record keeping book or journal. The Homeschool Daily Planner, Christian Liberty Press’s The Class Lesson Planner and The Homeschooler’s Journal which was designed by a homeschool family are popular planners that serve the dual purpose of planning and record keeping.
And in your efforts to get organized and have all your resources in one place, you might want to purchase The Homeschooler’s Book of Lists by Sonya Haskins. A unique listing of important dates, people, places and more in the topics of history & government, language arts, math, religion, science, geography, language, great people, quotes, computers, or arts & music arranged in easy to understand formats, this book could replace bookshelves as a homeschooler’s best friend.
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