We continue our Homeschooling journey we have come to Day 6. Welcome to this morning in the 10 Days of Homeschooling for First Year Families Day 6 Organizing Supplies. As you may not know just like in a public school, you will need to purchase school supplies.
I thought we would discuss ways to organize the supplies you will need and show you some of the items I think you might want to purchase that you might never have considered of needing. Before we begin, you do not have to buy all these supplies at once just be watching for these items. Because they could go on sale at the stores, you shop at, or you might run across them at a Garage Sale. Or even in a clearance bin in your local stores.
Art Supplies stored in a million different ways. Charlie and I have had them on my desk. As well as just laid on a shelf. Then we moved our art supplies into a Rubbermaid Tote. These ways didn’t work out for us the way I wanted them to so the last way we decided to store our art supplies was in a shelf that looked like a pantry with doors. This way we can closed the pantry when not using it and being in the living room it looked neat.
Art Supplies:
A Variety of Macaroni, Rice, A Variety of Beans
Once you have your Art Station organized and your sitting at the table looking at all the books and things you will be using it is time to organize them as well. For Charlie, I set up a reading center and used a small bookshelf to put the books on I wanted him to read that week.
As for Charlie’s workbooks, I had a small bookshelf next to our dining room table where we kept the books we used in our daily work. Along with this, I held a basket of snacks and water so he wouldn’t need to get up other than for a restroom break.
Once the day was over all the work, we had done that day would go into a tray for me to check on Friday. I labeled the plate Daily Work, Graded, Needs Re-Done so Charlie would know each morning what he would need to correct from the day before.
As you can see our classroom might not have been perfect or the most organized, but it did work for us. I also cannot say each day everything was put back neatly or where it should have gone but Charlie always knew what I expected and on Fridays we, would discuss how neat he kept his classroom each week as this was part of his schooling. Because in homeschooling there isn’t a janitor to clean your room for you. It’s mom and this mom wasn’t going to do it for her students.
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Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
