Spring cleaning and organizing did! *Ü* I have been purging for weeks! I'm slow and methodical so that doesn't help get things done right away. My poor family had to deal with my madness for almost 2 weeks now! It doesn't have to stay perfect, but I really have to think it through before I commit a space....
The first space was the attic in my sons room and all my boxes of books. I was able to get rid of a TON of things at a used curriculum sale, but I have a TON left over. I have all my Tapestry of grace year 1 books in boxes and labeled, I have year 2 books in boxes and labeled, and all my year 3 unit 1-2 books boxed and labeled. They are now safe and sound in a warm, dry attic. I am so glad to have those out of the main house! They just took up space.
I still have 3 book shelves in my walk in closet, 3 in the office, my baskets in the dining room and then the shelves and cabinets in the mud room filled. I emptied last years goods, placed most of the upcoming years goods in place of...organized my art supplies (I was inspired by Barbs post) and have the girls summer books out in their basket for easy reach.
Here is a few pictures for a good visual of my reorganizing school stuff:
These used to be on the floor... and now rest on this new plastic container.
The new container ( found at Goodwill for $3.00)has 3 drawers and house flash cards, wrap ups, math games, math wars etc.... I just cant part with that stuff yet. The second drawer has 3x5 index cards and also larger ones for vocabulary. Tape, rulers and other stationary type stuff. The bottom drawer... well again... full of things I just cant part with yet. It houses all of our math manipulative's we have used and collected over the years, tanagrams, math counters, base 10, rulers, scale... most came from the Saxon math manipulative kit, but also things I bought through Sonlight for math resources back in the day *Ü* I am not ready to give it up yet... maybe I need a 10 step program?
The girls notebooks still need to be made into books. They are full! Even though we only made it through 1/2 of year 3, and RyLees Astronomy needs to be bound up too. They will stay here till I'm ready to do that.
I love this message board! I found it at Goodwill too! $2.99! It was still in its packaging... I love smart shopping. This is where I will post the weekly schedule and Weekly procedure chart.
Christians biology schedule is placed here. I have the main schedule and grades in my book. I also place her basic chore list here(its broken down in days and changes weekly). I also write memory verses on this, so we can look over at it whenever we want and memorize it.
This shelf houses all my tapestry of grace books. The books up here are for year 3, and also all resources we might use for any year plan. I need a bigger one! Yikes.... Sorry about the bad lighting.
This shot has Nature study books that the kids use in the basket on top. Then below it is my cuisenaire rods I cant part with *Ü* Below that is Spanish and art materials.
This is my favorite closet/cabinet! My grama gave it to me. I have all our art supplies in this cool tote I bought at Costco last week on the top shelf. It organized them and I can see inside! The next shelf, also a favorite! Tina Wa bought this for me at Christmas... isn't she sweet! Someone posted these on the 'old" WTM board and I 'really" wanted one, but was resisting temptation... she was a doll and bought it for me! I was so shocked when I saw he bring this huge box out of her car! lol Thanks Tina... anyway... I house all of our print outs in it. Lap book stuff, notebook pages, timeline figures.... what have you. It also has a few books we are using for art appreciation right now. Plus other goodies.... I love it! I just pull the entire thing out when I need it.
Bottom shelf has our microscope and science supplies! This is such a nice cabinet!
This shelf is mostly my resources/teacher resources *Ü* Bible study helps journals and the like..... Books I'm reading/want to read over the next year/2,3? I also ran out of room on my TOG shelf so the Hakim books are here as well, and some more science resources, writing, grammar, all of my guides... and 2 sewing projects of mine and Rylees but you cant see them well.
Educational dvds and VHS tapes. I have more, but no tote to house them yet. I went to a library sale and bought a lot of great stuff... 50 cents each... I couldn't walk away form such a sweet deal!
I still have my schedule (spine for the day) to work out for next year. I will work on it mid July when our Basque student is gone for 10 days at camp, and all of my kids are gone too... only they are gone Thursday-Sunday.
So, slowly slowly the egg begins to walk! *Ü* I learned that years ago.... it is an Ethiopian proverb. I still have things to do, but a huge majority just got fisnished! I need to buy little for next year... but other than that... Im feeling good... and ready for summer and our Basque student to be hear the month of July!
