Jul. 11, 2008 - Setting up the Desk Apprentice

One purchase I made for homeschooling which I've never regretted is the Desk Apprentice from Staples.  Think of it as the Lazy Susan of homeschooling supplies.   I have one set up for each of my kids, although if I had a large family I would probably just get one for myself to hold lesson plans, forms, and so forth. Here are some photos of my daughter's eighth grade materials, all set up and ready to begin next month! In this view, you can see that the Apprentice has an interior section and exterior pockets.  Four corner pockets hold pens, pencils, scissors, staplers.  There are six external pockets which can each hold two slim workbooks or one larger one.  A view of the other side, with the two additional outer pockets.  Inside this section are her science and art books. The view below shows the Apprentice from above.  You can see how the interior section can hold quite a few file folders.  I use these to hold bulkier items.  It also has a removable organizer for paper clips, erasers, glue sticks (for those timeline figures!) - as you can see, the middle compartment of this is large enough to hold our apologetics flashcards, science vocabulary index cards, etc. One of the things I really enjoy about the Apprentice is the ability to pick the whole thing up and move to a different location.  We can have our materials with us in the screenhouse during nice weather, the kitchen, or just stay in the schoolroom, where they sit on my hope chest.  Much nicer than having piles of books on a table, where they are likely to be destroyed by spills.  .  .umm, what did you say?  What kind of spills?  Well, there's this year's Apples Spelling workbook.  I knocked over a jumbo size cup of coffee onto the table the first day we used it.  And, yes, she had to use that coffee-stained, warped workbook all year!  (blush)   I also keep a date stamper in the Apprentice.  When my kids do any kind of writing or a workbook page, I use the date stamper on it.  This way it is easy to keep the chronology of the work clear ~ a great help when organizing a portfolio or just as documentation of work done.

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Jul. 11, 2008 - awesome!

Posted by Sonya

I have never seen this before and really like the way it is set up! I am going to head to Staples this weekend to see if ours carries it. Thanks for sharing this! Sonya

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Jul. 13, 2008 - Desk Apprentice

Posted by urbanbutterfly

I really like this thing. It would be great on my desk...thanks for sharing!

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Aug. 15, 2008 - Love it!

Posted by http://motherbird-nest.blogspot.com/

I am definitely getting one of those. What a great idea. That would surely cut down on the clutter at our table.

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