organizing school papers

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Registered: 03-27-2003
organizing school papers
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Fri, 05-07-2004 - 11:02am
Now we are about to the end of the year, I have stacks of my kids' preschool and school artwork and worksheets brought home from school. What do you all do to organize them? what do you keep and what do you throw away. There is no room in my house for everything. Any ideas?
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Registered: 04-27-2000
Fri, 05-07-2004 - 11:17am


My son received a personalized art organizer from the lillian vernon catalog as a birthday gift and it has helped. It's just a zipper portfolio case. At any rate, DS also has one drawer in his basement art supply caddy called "masterpieces" where he puts many of his works of art. When the drawer overflows, he has to weed through and throw a few things away. Periodically, I go through his school papers and home creations and select some to keep forever. I'd say we keep 10-20 things per year. The art portfolio we have will probably be sufficient to store about 150 pages, so it should last for years before it overflows. - Suzanne



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Registered: 03-16-2004
Fri, 05-07-2004 - 9:40pm
My ds is only 11 months, sp we dont have that problem yet, but I read or saw somewhere something that might help. You can take a picture of them holding their masterpiece and put that in the scrapbook, and ditch the picture. ALso if you have a little wall space, you can hang their favorites and when a new one comes replace an old one with that.

Sara
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Registered: 05-08-2004
Sat, 05-08-2004 - 1:16pm
Hi, I have taught pre-k and homeschool my children) out of my home for a pretty long while. I'm not sure what you could do now, but have advice for next year. I tell my parents to have a storage container of whatever kind for each kid, everyday when they get home from school they put everything in there(they do this for their older kids to) library books, spelling test lists ect. Every child has a folder in their container. The file is good for 6 weeks. At the end of a six weeks go through folder and only keep something that shows progress or a special project. Only keep 4 things from each six weeks and paper shred the rest. Put everything saved in a special school memory box to save forever!

For now I would suggest kind of the same thing..go through papers and only keep thigs that show mayjor progress and save a few special things..maybe children can chose 6 projects they want to keep.

I hope this helps some..sorry to ramble on.


Traci

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