I have talked before, how I use these in our home. Well, today is the day to get The 2011-12 Schoolhouse Planners for 50% off!!! Here are a few of the ways I am or have used the TOS Planner. Assignment and Record Keeping Book Homeschool Convention Binder Family Notebook and Homeschool Binder This planner…
Over the last few weeks, as I was preparing for our school year, I made a change, that I hadn’t really talked about. I decided NOT to put our 3.5 year old in with our kindergarten and first grade. He is able, but he is not ready, as his attention span does not have the…
This week I have several goals…most all go along with finishing up some homeschool organization ideas. Organizational Goals: Put together five book cases enter all new books into library database Put stickers on new books Put all books on shelves in an organized manner. Finish organizing the dining room. My Job Related Goals: Make a…
The pictures in this post will be familiar, but I wanted to show how the supply organization has crossed over to our Writing Center. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my plans to put together a writing center. As I was thinking through how I would put together a writing center, I kept in…
Welcome to the Apologia Meet & Greet Blog Hop. I am honored to be one of the twelve bloggers chosen to participate in this blog hop. There are twelve bloggers who have interviewed the following twelve authors, Davis and Rachael Carman—owners of Apologia, Zan Tyler, Elizabeth Smith from HSLDA, Jeannie Fulbright, David Webb—one of the authors of…
I have talked about our curriculum organization using file boxes. However, there is a reason I have avoided the topic of actual school supplies…markers, pencils,crayons, glue, and so forth. These items have been scattered EVERYWHERE, though I have little pencil boxes for most of it, they never end up back in them. A few weeks…
Our first day of school was an overwhelming success. In some ways, I wish it would not have gone so perfectly, because that is going to set such a high standard for our year. I think God also saw a need for a reality check, as I woke the second day of school with a…
eBooks EVERYWHERE…. on the computer hard drive, on my desktop hard drive, the dining room table, the book shelf and file cabinet. You get the idea… Secretly, I have a love affair with them. Why? Most of them allow me to print however many copies I need for MY family, assuming the copyright states this….
A couple of years ago, I put together File Boxes as modified Workboxes. That really worked, but somehow, I stopped using them. The main reason was the work load to keep them loaded and to make sure everything made it back to their spots. Also, the Hanging File Folders kept falling apart. The first revamping…
