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I’m Making a List and Checking It Twice

No, I’m not talking about a Christmas list. I’m talking about the list that, if fulfilled, makes every homeschool mom as excited as her children are on Christmas morning. I’m talking about next year’s curriculum list. We may as well admit that we start dreaming about next year’s curriculum almost as soon as the new-bookContinueContinue reading “I’m Making a List and Checking It Twice”

Shelf Awareness

So, I’ve had these two shelves in my schoolroom forever. The larger, wooden one has always stored our games. It was garbage picked by my parents, and my dad added the back to it. The smaller, white shelf always had our school supplies such as math manipulatives, art supplies, science kits, etc. While we doContinueContinue reading “Shelf Awareness”

I Just Can’t Help Myself!

I’ve done it again. I’ve rearranged the schoolroom. Twice in one day, actually. The underlying reason behind this particular need to rearrange is that the sun was still causing a glare on my computer screen during the day. So, the first arrangement today consisted of pushing my desk and bookshelf forward to be against theContinueContinue reading “I Just Can’t Help Myself!”

How to Speed Up Pokey

Timers are my favorite tool to prod along a slowpoke and to teach autonomy to a clinger. For my dawdlers, I figured out about how long each subject should take (plenty of resources are available online for this, or you may be able to figure it out from your teacher’s manuals). After we had our instructionContinueContinue reading “How to Speed Up Pokey”

The Little Things

What do you do with all the little stuff? You know, markers, tacks, glue sticks, math counters, paper clips? Do you have some here and some there, including underneath the couch? What we need is a way to gather everything into one designated spot so we can avoid overbuying or being unprepared. There’s no reasonContinueContinue reading “The Little Things”

How to Set Up a Homeschool Library

Decluttering for Dummies

“Help! I don’t even know where to begin organizing!” To quote a well-known song, “When you read, you begin with A, B, C; when you sing you begin with do, re, mi.” When you organize, you begin by decluttering.My handy-dandy spellchecker is trying to tell me that decluttering is not a word. Let’s decode theContinueContinue reading “Decluttering for Dummies”

You Might be an Obsessive Organizer If . . .

1. You thought of the post-it flag pen first.2. Your calendar consults you.3. You label your labels.4. Your closet is so clean, the skeletons have disappeared.5. You hold the world record for never losing a sock’s mate in the dryer.6. You make lists of your lists.7. You wander into office supply stores to window shop.OfContinueContinue reading “You Might be an Obsessive Organizer If . . .”

Reality Homeschooling

Thank you all so much for hopping over to my blog for the past 10 Days of Organization! I hope you enjoyed not only my posts, but also those of the other HOTM hoppers.Speaking of HOTM, the winter conference starts TODAY!!! Click here to purchase your ticket if you haven’t yet. What is an “online conference”? AContinueContinue reading “Reality Homeschooling”

And the Winner Is . . .

Drum roll please! The winner of the FREE ticket to the online homeschool conference put on by Heart of the Matter Online from Feb. 21-23 is TN Quiltbug!!! Congrats, Susan! I’ll pass your email address along to the HOTM conference people, so look for your log-in information to come from them!Thank you all for enteringContinueContinue reading “And the Winner Is . . .”