Keeping Your Homeschool Organized All Year Long
Organization is an important aspect of any homeschool. No matter how you accomplish the task, keeping books, curriculum, paperwork, and supplies at hand in an orderly fashion makes for a happier and more successful day all around. The tips we provide here will help you with keeping your homeschool organized all year long as you enjoy learning and laughter together as a family.
Keeping Your Homeschool Organized All Year Long
Providing our children with the ability to plan, anticipate, and organize means they will possess valuable life skills to take with them into the world when they leave our homes. While they are still with us and under our daily influence, these skills will not only help them personally, they will enhance family life as a whole.
Need some help understanding why organization is important for your homeschool? Check out this list of 101 Reasons to Organize Your Homeschool.
Additionally, you may find encouragement in this 31-day series which offers practical organizational tips for every homeschool mom’s life.
How to Easily Organize Homeschool Supplies
How many times a week are you asked by your children for help finding a pencil, ruler, paint brush, graph paper, and more? If you’re like most of us, you hear the question too many times to count. These tips for organizing your homeschool supplies will help you to streamline your homeschool and empower each member of your family to equip himself for his lessons and projects each day.
As you prepare to organize all of your homeschool supplies, you will need a handy way to identify which items are where. Print out these cute, free labels and you’ll be on your way!
Crafting is an important part of many homeschool families’ lives. If you fit that category, then you will appreciate these tips for keeping craft supplies organized.
Homeschoolers don’t typically need to deal with ‘homework’ since all of our work is done at home, and usually to completion each day. However, this idea for a homework station may still work if you need to keep supplies handy for several different children at various levels. Or it may just be a fun project you’d like to take on!
Do you have artists in your homeschool? Here are some practical ways to store art supplies so your little (or not so little) creative genius can create any time an idea is sparked.
Are you a DIY’er at heart? You’ll love these 8 ideas for DIY art caddies you can place around your home. You may even wish to get your kids involved in creating the one they like most.
Why not use banker boxes to store all your necessities? This how to for making fabric-covered banker boxes tells you how!
Learn how to organize your children’s backpacks for co-op, a homeschool day spent in the car, or for homeschooling while taking an extended trip?
Have you ever considered using magazine file boxes to organize your homeschool supplies? Try these ideas and you’ll be on your way to organizational freedom!
Keeping Your Curriculum in Order
Do you have a plan in place for keeping track of your various homeschool curricula and books? If you’ve been educating your children at home for more than a year or two, then you have likely already amassed a great many books, lessons, worksheets, and the like. We’ve gathered several resources for keeping your curriculum and books in order to help you get a handle on the mess, and to be able to easily find what you need when you need it.
Do you have lesson plans that seem to get out of control before you even get started each day? These ideas for how to organize your lesson plans may help!
Are you blessed with an in-home library? Learn some new ways to keep everything in order and easy to find!
Also enjoy this step-by-step with video to organize your homeschool library!
Many of us, if we’ve been homeschooling for any period of time, likely already have some sort of organization plan in place for our curriculum. However, that doesn’t mean our plan is efficient or appropriately meets our needs. Here is a helpful plan for re-organizing your homeschool curriculum.
Need some excellent strategies for how to organize, rotate, and display your homeschool books?
if you like systems then this information about keeping your homeschool curriculum organized will be right up your alley. This one covers 5 different systems so you can pick and choose what works best for you and your family!
Did you know that preparing now can help you enjoy your next homeschool year even more? Let Melanie tell you how to better organize your homeschool curriculum.
How to Organize Your Homeschool Space
Do you have a dedicated homeschool space in your home? Whether you have a homeschool room, allow your children to work in their rooms, or encourage a free-for-all approach to where lessons are completed, you still need a way to corral all of the supplies and books that accompany the homeschool life. The ideas below will spark inspiration in you as you begin to re-create your own homeschool space.
Is your homeschool space on the small side? Here are some creative organization ideas that may help!
Scroll through this photo-filled blog post about a super cute farmhouse and you will find tons of ideas for organizing your homeschool and decorating your home all at the same time.
This in sight – in mind concept of organizing is reminiscent of the strewing method of homeschooling. It really does work! Why not try it in your homeschool and see how it all plays out?
Do you have a full homeschool room, or do you want one? Read more about setting up and organizing a homeschool room in your home.
Use these helpful tips to set up a Geography table in your homeschool.
Do you organize using boxes and bins? Listen to this podcast and learn how to effectively use boxes and bins in your homeschool space.
Take a peek at this fun homeschool photo tour to get ideas for how to set up your own space!
Here are 13 homeschool organization ideas to implement in your home!
You may enjoy this post which includes 8 more ways to organize your homeschool.
You may have concerns about the cost of organizing your home and your homeschool space. Learn how to organize your home on a budget! Though this post was not written specifically for your homeschool, organization in the home definitely helps to foster a healthy learning environment!
And more about stretching your homeschool budget!
If you need practical and simple ideas for your homeschool room, Kim’s got your covered.
Take a sweet peek at this family’s homeschool room.
Purging and decluttering is part of organizing a homeschool space. Take a look at this list of 10 things to eliminate from your homeschool for ideas about how to take these steps.
Homeschool Paperwork and Records
There will always be paperwork, stray assignments you’d like to save, and records to keep in any homeschool. Detailed or concise in your methods, the tips we’ve provided here will give you the tools you need to ensure that you keep what is important and let go of the rest.
You can learn to keep the paper clutter to a minimum with these tips!
Learn how to keep all of your homeschool records organized using our record keeping system. By entering your children’s assignment information one time, we automatically generate lesson plans, daily schedules, report cards, and even transcripts!
Take a look at this filing system for ideas about storing your children’s completed assignments.
If you’ve got the space, this system for organizing children’s work in binders may be for you!
Here are some great ideas for organizing homeschool papers that you swore you’d never throw away!
Here’s a simple 3-step method for organizing papers.
Creating a memory box is a great way to keep the papers you want to cherish forever!
Additional Resources
Did you know that you can connect with Diligent Homeschool on Pinterest? We have collected many homeschool organization ideas there for you to peruse, plus you’ll find lots of other valuable boards you may wish to follow!
Learn more about why we do what we do here at Diligent Homeschool Recordkeeping System.
Be sure to check back in on our blog from time to time as we continue to provide encouragement for homeschoolers from homeschoolers.
Storage Options of Interest
Do you need help finding practical storage solutions for your supplies, books, papers, and everything else that comes along with this homeschool lifestyle? We’ve share a few of our favorites below to help you get started creating more order for yourself and your children in your homeschool.
Glass Storage Container with Lid
Do you have ideas you’d like to share with us about how you keep your homeschool organized throughout the year? Feel free to leave a comment below so we can glean from you!
Thank you for linking to my ideas for small spaces post! You’ve got some great ideas here 🙂 Going to peek through your paper organization ideas now. So. Much. Paper…