School Work Keeper

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Storage Solution #4 The Ultimate School Work Keeper

I’m the girl who wanted to get an SUV even before we had kids because I wanted to make sure I had enough room in my car to fit all the kids soccer gear. You know for all the games and practices that they were going to have when they started playing soccer. A little early, I know and I’m still waiting on that reality with my 4 year old…but another dream was when he would start bringing home school work and I would get to organize it. I know – weird, but I also think this comes from me being a teacher and creating end of the year portfolios. Now I just get to do it in my home.

So here is my plan of school work attack that is simple and inexpensive:

1. First you find an organizing system that works for you depending on the number of children you have. I opted to buy the 3 drawer option – the extra to use for crafts or maybe someday a third child? (This one was at Target for $10 bucks.) 

2. Find a good place to put it in where the children can reach it and it is out of the way.

3. Label the drawers or have the kids decorate their own sign for their drawers.    

4. Now when they bring home their work it can be ooowed and ahhed at and then be placed in the drawer. (A great tip I remember reading about for bigger items like dioramas, is to take a picture of it or your child with it and then simply put the photo in their drawer). Note: I do try to make sure everything has a date on it (something the teacher should have them do anyways) but it will help them and you to remember when they created it. 

5. Finally, at the end of the year, or even better, during a rainy summer day, sit down and dump all the work on the ground (my son loved this) and go through all the cool stuff they created. Then, together, pick around 5-10 items that they would like to save from that year. I can place that stack in a 3 ring pocket folder of their choice. If you can’t tell, GREEN is my son’s favorite color. Then put that folder into a big 3 ring binder to collect all their school years. 

Now I just need soccer to start!

♥ Katie

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✄ And if this school solution was up your alley - don’t miss this weeks’ Back to School Link Party over at We are THAT Family.