Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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Location: LaGrange, KY

Tagged: organizing, Storing schoolwork

This topic has 6 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 5 months ago by KMHStore.

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January 7, 2017 at 2:30 pm
Regan
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What do you do with schoolwork that has been completed? How do you organize and store it? I have 6 children and I am realizing I need to get a system in place really quickly. I am not required to submit any paperwork or portfolio of my childrens’ schoolwork, but I would like to save some of it. Do you save some of it or all? Do you keep it in a binder or a file folder or something else? I am looking for ideas that are efficient and are mindful of space to store it over the coming years. I am thinking with 6 kids and my oldest being 8 (almost 9), I have many more years so there’s no time like the present to figure this out.
January 7, 2017 at 3:02 pm
CrystalN
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I only have 3 kids so this may not work for a larger family, but I will share anyway in case any of it i spires you.
Through the current school year each child keeps their schoolwork in a 3 ring binder organized by subject. Most of our narrations or copywork goes in a spiral notebook which they use untill full and then I label with their name and years and save them. So the notebook is mainly math, maps, cursive.
Each semester I have to turn in report cards and I take that opportunity to clean our their notebooks, tossing nearly everything. I keep one or two examples of each thing just for fun.
At the end of the year I take any full notebooks, the dozen or so loose examples and any other noteable projects and rubber band them together. Each child has a school box (one of those plastic storage bins) I put the years stack in with previous years and it goes in the attic.
I am very careful about projects, crafts etc. I try to only have them create things they will want to use or hang up, not for the storage buckets. We take pictures of their projects for the buckets though.
So my hope is that by graduation they will have a bucket with several full notebooks with their writings, drawings, nature notebooks, a few loose samples of math, and some photos of fun things they did. I do generally save workbooks just because they cost so darn much, but I try to avoid them as a rule so there arent many of those taking up space. They would be he first to get tossed if I start running out of room in my buckets.
I dont know how helpful that is, but that is what is working for us so far. My oldest is in 7th grade and we still have room in his bin so I think I am on track keeping to one bucket per kid.
Good luck, it is certainly hard to toss work. I feel like it sends a bad message.
January 7, 2017 at 3:50 pm
Tristan
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My kids keep their things in a binder or folder all year. Then at the end of the year I can bind those together or not. Everyone’s folder/binder/bound pages go into a single Rubbermaid tub with a lid that is labeled with the school year. 🙂 9 kids (only 6 school age this year).
January 7, 2017 at 5:15 pm
Karen
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I do what Tristan does. All work goes in a three-ring binder. Then what I keep of that all gets spiral-bound by my local print shop (I print out title pages and divider pages). It usually costs about $8 per child.
This year, I’ll have to figure something out for the work that my girls are doing in composition books (this is the first year we’re using comp books). (IEW Fix-It Grammar and one daughter’s Saxon Math work)……I was considering just tossing the comp books, but I sort of hate to….I’m not sure.
I do have to show a portfolio to an evaluator (Pennsylvania), so I can’t toss things until after our evaluation. (And then I hate to toss stuff for fear I’d need proof of education or something!)
January 7, 2017 at 5:18 pm
totheskydear
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Our math is stored on the computer (Teaching Textbooks) and copywork in a notebook, and other than that, we don’t have a lot of papers or other work. But I did see a neat idea where a lady had a private blog that each of her kids have access to. They type up all their narrations there, and put pictures of their copywork, artwork, etc. on it.
January 9, 2017 at 5:16 pm
Regan
Participant
Thanks so much ladies!!! I like these ideas. I have also come across the idea of having a portable file tote with lid for each child and hanging files for each grade K5 through 12th. Then as each year is completed a sample of each childs work is put into the hanging file marked for that year.
January 10, 2017 at 6:18 am
KMHStore
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My oldest is 7 but I’m doing similar to some of the ladies above. Copywork goes into a 3-ring binder. We’re using CLE math and I throw the workbooks away as they are completed but keep the quizzes and tests in the 3-ring notebook. Any other misc work goes into the 3-ring notebook. At the end of the year (2 so far), I took about 1 piece of copywork per month and only the 10 CLE math tests as well as the course of study for the year and spiral bound those at home with a ProClick. I take apart a pocket folder and spiral bind it for the front and back cover. Then stick in any certificates from activities, etc. in the back folder.