How to Organize Homeschool Records
At the end of each homeschool year what do you do with all of your child’s completed curriculum?
All of those math worksheets, spelling tests, science projects…
Seriously…What do you do with all of it?
I’ve asked many homeschoolers and each family seems to have a different answer. Some trash it. Some keep everything. Some have a bonfire and light it all on fire (well not really - but you get my point).
By the end of the school year we are completely burnt out - tired of thinking about school and looking at used curriculum.
Most of us just toss everything into a storage box, tucking it all away in far corner of our basement or attic, not to be thought about further.
Well Let’s fast forward….
5 kids and 8 homeschool years later, my little stash of used curriculum had grown grown… and grown.. and grown! The boxes I stashed in the basement each year had now multiplied into a huge mountain of paperwork!
I started imagining how large this pile would be by the time I graduated all of my children. 1 box x 5 kids x 12+ years each homeschooling. I didn’t have room for 60+ boxes of schoolwork!
Something had to change!
I needed a long term storage solution!
So I did a little research and finally came up with a system that works! One that will last from preschool through high school graduation - only requiring one box per child!
(Janelle Knutson helped inspire much of this system - check her out here)
So let’s get started. Gather your supplies and watch the video tutorial below!
VIDEO TUTORIAL
Grab some coffee and let’s get organized!
We’ll talk about what’s important to keep & what to pitch (or recycle - please!).
Yes that’s right - we’re going to throw some things out!
No more mountains of history papers, handwriting worksheets, & boxes of used curriculum taking over your basement... and sanity!
Janelle Knutson helped inspire much of this system - check her out here!
