storing Word tiles and a portfolio question…

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  • July 7, 2012 at 7:04 pm
    Delkroemer
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    How do you store your word tiles for the reading selections you use to teach reading? (If you’re not using Delightful Reading, obviously) I am just thinking there are many word tiles for one poem or verse and you don’t use them all at in one lesson because you teach a line or two at a time, so how do you store them in an organized manner?

     

    Also, for those of you who do a homeschool portfolio, what do you keep/put in it? do you use a binder? If so, what size?

     

    Thanks in advance for any replies and ideas 🙂 – Del

    July 7, 2012 at 7:16 pm
    Wings2fly
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    I don’t have the reading tiles, but we used a plastic kitchen utensil drawer organizer for our MUS blocks. Could that work?

    July 7, 2012 at 7:23 pm
    MamaSnow
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    For the letter tiles, I had one of those plastic craft boxes with the little compartments (I think they are for beads), so each letter could have their own compartment, which made them easy to find. For the word tiles, I had a little baggie or envelope divided up for each lesson/story.

    I tried keeping a portfolio last year which didn’t work real well for me, just because these younger grades don’t do a ton of written work in CM style education. (And also, we are a missionary family which means international moves every couple of years, so I just can’t keep a binder per child per year.) This year, I started my blog in part to give an outlet for keeping track of what we’re learning electronically. You can check it out here if you want to see how I’m doing it. http://snowfallacademy.blogspot.fr/ This along with a list of of our curriculum and goals (and a list of actual books read as we go along) are the main record keeping I do…next year we’ll have to start testing too. For the moment we have our copywork notebook, spelling notebook, math tests, and nature journal too, but I will still have the highlights on my blog if these items have to get left behind in one of our moves.

    HTH,

    Jen

    July 8, 2012 at 2:37 am
    amama5
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    I have to keep a portfolio in our state, which is very vague:)  I just use the cheap .50 folders that have three ring holders in them from Walmart, 3-hole punch all their work, then write their name and school year/grade on the front with a sharpie.  That way it’s thin and after keeping one each year for 6 kids it won’t take up too much space.

    It first has a spreadsheet of their hours in each subject in it, their end of term “tests”,  a list of the books we read for history/geography/science, map drills,  their free reading book list, a list of the artists and composers we studied (and will hopefully soon have a 4×6 of their favorite print by each artist), any art they made/drew, nature notebooking samples (I print extra pictures of things we take photos of), several math sample sheets, and several handwriting/copywork sheets, and a list of any field trips/extra things we did.

    I don’t have to do the grading, sorry I can’t help there. 

    July 9, 2012 at 1:47 am
    Delkroemer
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    Thank you ladies for the ideas! Thanks for sharing your blog Jen! I have heard you can even turn a blog into a book later on, so it may be a really cool way to keep record of your schooling and possibly one day turn it into memory books.

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