This week's Works for Me continues last week's series on school organization.  I have 6 children (and three younger ones) to school this year.  We HAVE to be organized or things will not get done.  I already explained the system I use to check work, and see where people are each day.  Today I will explain how I manage my binders so I do not go insane with all the paperwork.

For each child I have a page of assignments for the whole week.  This makes 6 pages to be looking at each week.  Plus, if they are behind in a subject or two there will be other weeks I am also assigning from.  I used to have a section for each week, and each child's assignments in the section.  But that drove me nuts when I was trying to figure out what they needed to catch up on.

SO - I changed to have a section for each child.  AND I Bought color coded page protectors!!!  One for each child!  I can see quickly where each one's section is, and there is no more frustrating flipping around!

It looks like this:  there is a section for each child with 36 assignment sheets.  We are in week 10 this week.  So if they are caught up, weeks 1 - 9 are all highlighted (see the previous post), and paper clipped together so they are out of the way.  Week 10 is in a color coded page protector - Matt is blue, Josiah - green, etc.  There were only 4 colors, so two of them double up, I just know that Sara and Emma are at the back of the book.

I also use these page protectors in my Brain... my binder which has all our info in it.  Yellow is the calendar, blue is the budget, etc. 

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these page protectors!  They really Work for Me!