Attempt to Organize...

My attempt to contain the crazy!

My (amazing!) husband built me shelving units to host a ridiculous amount of bins from Ikea. One side is our homeschool supplies, the other are toys and "busy" items for the babies while we are learning.

We live in a small home (hopefully we can move... very soon...), so we took over the 'dining area' for our school this year.

I went to town with the label maker I got for Christmas last year and labeled EVERYTHING... I will admit it took (way) too long to chose the font/color/size I wanted to use. Too many features = me using the most basic setting after trying every other one.

We are well on our way into the first year using the My Fathers World curriculum and so far so good! I will post on our curriculum next :). Organization has been key in running smoothly thus far... (I'm pretty sure if I had not pre-planned on making this as easy as possible, I would have thrown in the towel the first time I woke up at 5:30 am). After everything arrived, which by the way was an excitement equivalent to Christmas (the girls were also excited), I started organizing the curriculum by week and day.

I started with a file box that holds either legal or letter size folders, I then made a folder for each week for Novee and one for each week for Durie. I used the Teacher guide to see what was planned for each week and pulled out the corresponding Student sheets and extra printables (if I added any). I then used a small post-it labeled with the day of the week and a paperclip to keep each week day together.

So to recap:
File labeled with week (Example: Week 1)
Inside File are 5 Post-its labeled with the week-day (Example: Monday, Tuesday...)
Once I have all my papers together for the day I paper clip them together and put the corresponding post-it on top.
*For the Kindergarten files I also put the corresponding book in the files.

This seemed like a lot of work at first but it has been amazing to just pull out the papers already labeled for the day and not need to do any prep work every morning!

I then use the workboxes to organize each activity to be completed by each lady.

This has also eliminated missing anything planned for the day and also lets each lady know what to do next without having to wait for me if I am helping someone else.

I also made each lady a 3-ring binder for their school work for the year so they could look back and see what they have done and how they have progressed, so completed work goes there. I then made them a separate 3" 3-ring binder to keep all of their art in for the year, which also allows me to 'toss' the extras that they feel are not worthy of keeping in their art folder (phew...).

Well, hopefully that all made some sense! I am sure I am missing something somewhere... I will add on if I can think of anything else!

TTFN