Tag:organization
New Month, New Blog, New Planner
I am so excited! Today is full of newness! First of all, the facelift this blog has received. My original plan was to be able to relaunch it today, but I ended up relaunching it two days ago. It’s something that’s been in the back of my mind to do for a few months now, …
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Trello & High School Planning
I recently had the satisfaction of beginning something that for almost the last decade has been at the back of my mind as both something to anticipate and something to fear. Planning for high school. Yes, high school! Although I’ve watched many homeschoolers complete their high school careers and talked with many mothers who’ve gone …
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TRISMS & Trello
After struggling on several different occasions to figure out a way to sort of “schedule” TRISMS for my middle schooler, it finally hit me: Use Trello!!! If you’re not sure what Trello is, please, please, PLEASE check it out! It’s a highly customizable organizational tool that you can use for virtually anything you can come …
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My Home Management Binder Project #2
Rather than drone on and on about my household binder, I figured I would do a post that was mostly pictures. My binder is still a work in progress, so I’ll probably have one more post once I finish tweaking the binder to work for me the way it should. If you missed part one, …
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My Home Management Binder Project #1
I am a paper packrat! It’s kind of hard not to be when you homeschool. There are papers to be copied, papers to be completed, papers to be corrected, papers to be corralled… Papers, papers, everywhere! While researching something school-related, I stumbled across the site for Mom’s Tool Belt. After reading through her blog, I …
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Letting the Kids Take Over
Well, we are on our six-week break one-week break following our second six-week period of school. (Twelve weeks down!!! Yay!!!) I think we were all ready for this one! Overall, I think it was a productive period. I didn’t get a lot of resistance about school, except in the IEW that I started with H. And that …
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New To-Do List (which is actually a chart!)
In the interest of bringing better organization to my life, I typed “post it to do list” into Pinterest. (And, let’s face it, I also wanted to play around with my brand new Pinterest account!)There were a lot of great ideas on there, including this one, which ended up being basically what I did, except …
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Wordless Wednesday – August 7, 2013
Kid’s Shelves – K (blue shelf), H (pink shelf), J (learning toys) Reorganized shelves Projects from co-op (coral, keepsake box, Native American headdress, Native American dart, flower from my toddler) Supply boxes, magazine holders for workbooks and teacher’s guides, school store items, newspapers for arts and crafts
Wordless Wednesday – July 31, 2013
Before pictures of the school room shelving units:
Planning Methods, Part II
If you missed the first part of my planning system, here’s the link. Once I get my lesson plans written onto my six-week planner sheets, I put them into our V Planner, which is an elaborate Excel spreadsheet. We will be using V Planner V3 this year. It’s different from the one we used last …
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