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What to Keep, This Week on the Porch
12:06 AM, Jun. 1, 2009
As the end of the school year is drawing to a close you are probably starting to consider what homeschool items you should get rid of and what you should keep. We'll talk next week about what you should get rid of; this week we'll talk about what to keep. Wouldn't you just keep what you don't plan to get rid of? Well, hopefully we'll be able to help you decide what to keep and what to get rid of.
When it comes to the paper work, obviously if you live in a state where you are required to turn more paper work in than another state, you have some different things to consider. That's something you'll need to decide for yourself. I don't live in a very regulated state, so what I keep are those papers that show me marked improvement, say the first spelling test and the last. (I don't save any spelling papers at all actually, but I was just trying to show you what might be important to keep.) For my youngest son, who is special needs, I'll also save papers that show something out of the ordinary to show his therapists. For instance, just a week ago, he wrote his name in mirror image, something he has never done before, or since. It was odd, and so perfectly done that you might think he planned to do it that way, unless you understood that it's not something he would think to do and accomplish so easily. Save all the award certificates that your child has earned for the year. Go over all the past years certificates and determine if you still want to keep them. Over time, the certificates are not that important anymore, but those fresh ones, especially to younger children, are a source of accomplishment. Put the paperwork you want to save in a dedicated binder for each child. I have binders just for drawings and stories. My children love to go through these from time to time and remember what they did and laugh at how they did it. They see how they've improved. I don't save everything they have drawn or written, just those that I especially liked or they themselves asked me to put into their binder. Curriculum and reading books are something I go through pretty regularly, mainly because I don't have unlimited shelf space. I've learned a few lessons over the years and after several moves. Keep curriculum you like. You may not use it next year, but in another year or two you may want to pull it back off the shelf for an emergency ,or times of financial difficulties. Even if I think I'll never use it again, I keep it because I got rid of it once and then wound up buying it again. As for any reading books, I keep the favorites, the hard to find, and I keep excellent, uplifting, and morally encouraging books on my shelves. I'll mention next week what I get rid of and why. Then of course there's all the extra tidbits of games, craft supplies, science supplies, notebooks, binders, pencils, and pens. Keep the markers that work, keep the supplies that are hard to find or expensive and can be used for other experiments. Decide just how many notebooks and binders you need to have on hand. (Currently I have a whole shelf dedicated to empty binders that are near to toppling over. While I'm a binder freak, that's even too many for my liking. They've been sitting there for over a year and haven't been touched yet!) Keep what you use, but don't become paranoid that you'll never be able to afford another binder again and must save every one that you come across. Buying a new binder is one thing, buying the same curriculum twice is another. Think of all the binders I could have bought if I'd of just saved the curriculum in the first place and kept it on the ridiculous binder shelf! I hope these tips and the ones from the rest of the team will be helpful to you! Keep reading throughout the week to find out what they have to share. Tia Linschied Senior Editor of HSB Comments 
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