Over the weekend I finally pulled all of my son's 1st grade homeschool completed work for his portfolio. I typically keep all his work in binders except for his math curriculum which comes in workbooks. I separate his binders by subject. Then once that homeschool year is completed I pull the work out of the binders.
Here is how I store completed work when that particular school year is done.
I take it out of the binders and place them in a Manila folder and rubber band it - labeling the outside.
Then I store it in a plastic bin in our garage just in case I need to provide records to the school board.
Then it's time to start over for the next school year. I use a large binder for subjects that do not have workbooks and then in the binder I divide each subject with divider tabs.
I allow my children to decorate the outside of their binders because most have a clear pocket on the front. My son decorated his with the Tower of Babel he saw a picture of in his history book.
We also have separate small binders for Science, History and Geogrpahy since these subjects have a lot of activities that we will be doing with them.
Here is my son's history binder - the history of the church (History For The Little Pilgrims)
How do you store your completed homeschool work for the year and how do you store your work once it's completed throughout your homeschooling year?
Great idea about storing by subject! I have a binder but last year (preschool) I just put it all in order of when we did it. That was fine since it was all pretty much just art, but now that we have subjects I think it would be great to do it by subject!
ReplyDeleteYour son is quite the artist :) hehe I love it!
ReplyDeleteI giggled at the Tower of Babel + Angry Birds drawings your son did, hehe! :)
ReplyDeleteSuch a cute idea to store. We need a good binder to store our artwork and projects from the year.
ReplyDeleteGreat organization - this will be an amazing keepsake for your kids as they grow up as well!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea! I don't homeschool but I have kept everything from Kindergarten last year. I have a huge chest and I have just put all her work in there. (I can't let it go. Her work is just too cute!) I need to organize it better and I am really liking your system!
ReplyDeleteYou are so organized!!! want to come visit??? =)
ReplyDeleteWOW! so neatly organized! I am a BIG organization freak! I love it when things are put away nicely and take up as less room as possible... I use bins that stack up on top of each other to be able to put it all away in the office closet.
ReplyDeletevery organized, I don't keep much each year, but I can see why you have to store homeschooling stuff just in case
ReplyDeleteAwesome idea! My son is only starting kindergarten, but he'll be accumulating work quickly! Thanks :)
ReplyDeleteDeanna/mommyGAGA
One suggestion for art projects/ large awkward pieces of paper: take a picture and fie the picture.
ReplyDeleteLOVE those binders!!!!
ReplyDeletei wish i was that organized lol
ReplyDeleteI do basically the same thing except I type up a summary page that has all the grades and averages and what curriculum was used for each subject and all the books the child read that year and keep that sheet in a cumulative file which lasts all 12 or 13 years for each child. I usually make 2 copies of this page and one in their 'permanent file' and keep the other in the storage box with the actual work.
ReplyDeleteAfter each child gets a couple of semesters of college under their belt, where I feel like I won't need the records any more, I give the storage boxes with the work in it, but I keep the 'permanent file' for myself. Of course we can make copies whenever needed.