Organization… This word is very important
for a homeschooler. Honestly, I’ve never
been very organized. When I started
homeschooling my first year was kind of a mess.
I did not organize the way I should have. Then life happen, I got sick (severe
thyroiditis) and had to undergo an operation.
So, everything was kind of a chaos.
The next year my husband decided to send kids back to school. That was worse than the disaster I had at
home. The kids hated their new
school. The oldest started getting
bullied severely so we had to make various reports. In all, it was a disaster.
So, after I felt better I started looking
at organization ideas and yes I became a Pinterest addict LOL! Homeschooling is
so different when you are properly organized.
I was homeschooling multiple children so the organization ideas were a
great help. This does not mean that
there will be days when kids don’t want to work or when you don’t want to teach. Life will still happen like it always does
but when you’re organized it’s easier and less stressful for the mother. It also helps avoid the famous homeschool “burn-out”.
One of my favorite organization ides that
has helped me a lot is file folder organization. I got this amazing idea from MeetPenny.com She made a whole year of homeschool
lessons.
While kids still were in school I
started planning the next year. I looked
for the curriculum I wanted and the costs.
After I bought it and received everything I started planning my
homeschool year. Also, I was praying a
lot because after seeing what happened the first year my husband did not want
homeschooling anymore. I really needed his support. Penny’s system was great. It made my life easier. Yes it took me some time to put it all
together but at the end it was so worth it.
Now everything is going quite well. As I said life happens but now I don’t have
to worry what I’m going to teach tomorrow or what materials we need. I’m also using workboxes. I will be writing about that system in
another post.
