Day 3: Homeschool File Boxes

Yesterday I showed you our work binders, but today I wanted to share how we organize class work for the week. Before school began for this year, I took a day and printed off lesson plans for the first 10 weeks (we use Veritas Press' scripted program of pre-written plans) and organized them into an accordion file. This has saved me countless hours of planning each week, and after Thanksgiving, I will do the same for our second 10 weeks. Each week, I pull that week's files and put them into a binder according to days- each day's worksheets are placed in a page protector labeled with that day of the week. Behind the page protector are the day's lesson plans. (You can view the front cover of Christopher's lesson plan binder through the file box at the top of this post.)

Within the filebox, I keep all of the teacher manuals and various supplies that will be needed for the week. For Christopher, this includes my Saxon Math 3 manual, our Shurley2 Grammar books, his Phonetic Zoo linguistics flashcards, the literature book he is currently reading, and our Latin books. In the rear of the box, I keep completed work, stapled together by week with that week's schedule attached to the front (along with the dates for the completed work). This work will soon be transferred to the accordion file as it is outgrowing the filebox...a good sign that we are completing our work in a timely fashion!

With our being in an apartment right now, there is not a lot of room for storage, so we have to make the most of what we have. This has also emphasized to us the importance of choosing activities and supplies wisely, so we don't have a lot of clutter in our workspace.

Next week, I will be moving on to a tour of our Home Manual, as well as placing printables online for free download; but for now, I think we'll just enjoy a relaxing weekend! See you on Monday!