Organizing Them

MODG Flashcard Program and Uploads

3rd

  I discovered the most WONDERFUL tool the other day.  ANKI flashcard program!  You can upload all your kid’s history, geography, math facts, and catechism.  The program automatically times when new cards are introduced and when old cards are reviewed.  For my independent reader, it’s fabulous!  And even for my struggling reader, as long as [...]

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Homeschool Notebooks 2012-2013

Organization

Here’s how it works this year, for anyone who wants to peek into my organization… The Mama Notebook The big advance I made halfway through last year was to split the kids memory work from everything else.  Often the history assignment was to read a section, talk about it, and oh…go over the states, date, [...]

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Homeschool Center Show-off

Organization

Most of the materials here will be out all year.  Below you can see our folder file for all the local plant and animal classified cards.  Beside that is our rock collection and matching cards.  Below on the left is all our Mommy It’s a Renoir cards in folders and garden plant folders on the [...]

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15-Cent Card Folders

Organization

It’s school season, so don’t forget to take advantage of the 15-cent folders at Walmart!  I made tons of folders for all my Montessori cards.  Look how nice and organized they are! 1.  Use a normal two-pocket, brad-less folders.  Cut it down to a 6×8. 2.  Put staples in the sides.  Two each.  For this [...]

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My Earliest Thoughts on Homeschooling

Organization

  Here are the posts from my other website that document my earliest attempts at homeschooling and my thoughts on the matter: My early homeschool days My homeschool day while nursing an infant My homeschool day AFTER the baby stopped nursing Isn’t homeschooling for crazy people? Is Homeschool an Insult to Public Education? Homeschooling for [...]

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How to Build Your Homeschool Notebooks

Organization

I have one main notebook for each of us for our daily work.  It has all of the weekly work in it.  I used to do this with folders, but this method further reduces my clutter. How to: 1.  Build a child notebook as seen above with reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic in the front.  Put [...]

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Our New School Room

K & Pre-K

Here it is from afar.   Shelves:  My area. Language arts and math manipulatives: Science, geography manipulatives and busy shelf:   Close ups of the shelves… Language Math Science More science

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How to Homeschool Multiple Ages

Organization

My kids are K-3.  Three different grades.  All pretty much need me to read their material aloud.  My baby sleeps…so far. But given at how many subjects there are and yada yada, three grades can get pretty complicated even when the youngest is only in kindergarten.  I would say the secret is knowing what you [...]

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Our Homeschool Routine 2012

Organization

  8AM –Everyone is up.  Kids brushing teeth, changing into fresh clothes, maybe bathing, starting their laundry, getting baby ready.  I am sitting at the computer slurping coffee and barking orders.  YES, I’m that lazy in the morning. Whenever baby goes down, `(10:30?) We start school time.  I would like to say that we do [...]

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Our School: Work Trays Instead of Boxes

Organization

I think it’s most correct to say that “I” use work trays.  Or work boxes with trays instead of boxes.  Whatever. Anyway, each child’s crate has a set of dollar store cookie sheets and the individual subjects stacked on each.  Since the kids do most of their work with me, I find that the stack [...]

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