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Sarah M
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Posted: Feb 11 2008 at 12:53pm \| IP Logged

I can't decide how to organize the children's work. They make lapbooks (usually 1 every week or two) based on a theme or picture book (i.e. snow or The Mitten), but I'm not sure how to organize the rest of what they do- like our math gnome work or other math work, my oldest daughter's copywork, liturgical year narrations/coloring pages, etc.

I'm not sure if a binder with page protectors would work because so much of what we do is made into mini-books that have flaps and such. I'm tempted to go with a Waldorf-like main lesson book, and just have the children paste in their work as we go along, but then it's not organized- for example, our math gnome work wouldn't all be together, etc. Do you think this is a big deal? Or does it just show that learning itself isn't compartmentalized-- it's a continuous flow?

What do you do with your little ones' work? I want them to be able to show it to people who ask what they're up to, and my girls *love* to look over their lapbooks and review what they've done. And I like notebooks/lapbooks because it helps me see that yes, we *did* really accomplish something this week!

Any advice is welcome!

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Posted: Feb 11 2008 at 1:30pm \| IP Logged

I put all of their *best* work in 3-ring binders. They each have their own (the 4" wide one is what we are using this year) and each binder has sections. Lapbooks are put into a rubbermaid-type container. The kids go through their work every week and decide what to put into the 3-ring binder, and at the end of the year everything is placed with the lapbooks. I like doing it this way as it really keeps them involved.

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Posted: Feb 11 2008 at 4:04pm \| IP Logged

We do a bit of everything. Dd has a lang. arts binder with dividers for spelling/grammar/writing, as well as a science binder and a history binder.

The twins each have a binder, sort of a catch-all, where I keep any worksheets, really great pictures, notebooking pages, etc.

We also do quite a few lapbooks, so each child has one of those magazine holder things and we store their lapbooks there.

I think it's fairly organized, though at the end of the year, I just toss all of it in a box and start over again.

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Posted: Feb 13 2008 at 11:25am \| IP Logged

One thing we do with big project and things that won't store well is to take a picture of the child or children who did the project holding their work. Then we make a page about it for their folder and the "item" can discretely 'disappear'.

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Posted: Feb 13 2008 at 9:44pm \| IP Logged

We do both lapbooks and mainlesson books. I use separate mainlesson books for each subject. This way they have their own history book, science book, math book, etc. For the other interest areas, we do lapbooks.

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