Homeschool Organization Galore

Summer is a perfect time to clean and reorganize those homeschool books and rooms as well as plan for a new homeschool year. Here’s a look at how some of the authors and contributors here at The Curriculum Choice keep their homeschool spaces organized. It is homeschool organization galore!

Homeschool Organization Galore from the Archives

Homeschooling can happen all over the house (and neighborhood!) but there will always be books and resources that need to be organized. Whether that’s in your home or digital files on your computer, there are plenty of ways to keep things neat!

Here are some great resources from the archives:

Homeschool Organization Tips from Curriculum Choice Authors

The writers here at Curriculum Choice are happy to share their homeschool organization tips and ideas. Here are some fabulous ideas and resources from their websites:

Tonia from Happy Homeschool Nest

Keeping your home clean can be a difficult task when you homeschool – with kids home all day and all those school supplies it can keep you busy! There are four steps that will help you keep your house clean and plenty of simple systems you can implement as well (lots of tips from other homeschool moms in this post!).

Tricia from Hodgepodge

We have an ongoing homeschool makeover at our house. Before the homeschool year starts and early January seem to be our big reorganization times. You too? We love IKEA for frugal organization that keeps the homeschool stacks easy on the eye. I also have some organization for the work at home mama too. There’s even maps for window treatments and high school organization. All at the link above.

Alison from Learning Mama

Homeschool organization is extra important when you’re homeschooling without a dedicated homeschool room. I’ve become pretty good at incorporating homeschool storage into pretty much every room of our home. I’ve also got some ideas for hiding the unsightly “schoolish” mess that comes with homeschooling.

Check out my homeschool decor hacks and storage solutions for keeping your house looking like a home while you homeschool at your kitchen table, living room, or where ever else you prefer to learn.

Annie Kate from Tea Time with Annie Kate

After homeschooling for over two decades, we still do not really organize our homeschool space in any special way. It is the same space we live in, just as it was when our children were eight years younger and I wrote While Our Things Have Fairly Well-Defined Places, the Children are Free to Roam. We still put books on the shelves, mostly. We are better at keeping tracks of pens now, and no one uses pencils or erasers anymore except me—I always mark in pencil because I hate red ink on people’s hard work.

Nor do we organize our life in any special way. We try to start school at a sensible hour, but after years of one person or another being ill there is no longer a defined starting time. With continued illness, part time jobs, and lots of volunteering, our days are unpredictable. The main aspect of time scheduling these days is about insisting that there is time for learning, that the night is for sleep, and that certain phones go to bed at 8 PM. In fact, my most frequent weekly goal over the past year has been, “Do each day’s work each day,” because Learning Skills Little By Little and Day by Day works best. In terms of organizing home maintenance, we clean house every Saturday and when company comes, pick up daily, and do laundry between everything else.

However, even though we may seem disorganized in how our homeschool runs, I always have a background plan for high school mirrored on what is required in our province, and I am super-organized about high school records, trying to record the different varieties of learning in ways that university admission offices understand. Homeschool Mommy Marks and Universities gives a peek into how we have organized our high school and our records and what amazing results we were blessed with.

Heather from Blog, She Wrote

We have lots of space and resources to keep track of as a homeschooling family. Here are a few of our tried and true ideas.

Essential Elements of a Home Learning Environment– Whether or not you have a dedicated room for homeschooling, there are some elements that every thriving homeschool needs. While we have a home base for school items, we use all of our space for our learning.

Project Workspaces– Establishing and organizing workspaces for student and grown up projects.

Organizing Your Homeschool Library– If you homeschool, you might have a lot of books. How do you organize them so you can find them when you need them?

Homeschool Planning with a Spiral Notebook– How I organize our homeschool plans with just a simple notebook for all four (and now two) kids.

How to Implement an Independent & Authentic Homeschool Day– The evolution of our homeschool days as our kids have aged.

Heidi from Starts At Eight

I swear that organization should be my middle name! I love having a perfect place for everything, I am the master at utilizing a space to its fullest, and I am a planner to the core! Here are some of my favorites:

4 Year High School Plan FREE Spreadsheet Printable: I created this many years ago to sort out my plan for my oldest child. I recently updated it and am using it to keep track of what my son is doing/needing to complete his 4 years of high school. It helps to lay out your plan for the 4 years to be sure you have everything covered, and have things balanced out so they are manageable.

Weekly Assignments Printable Student Planner {Checklist Style} – I have found that my son needs things to be very “cut to the chase”, “no muss no fuss”. For that reason I created this Printable Student Planner that is in a checklist style format. It makes it easy to see what is required of them, and easy to check off as they go!

Planning a 4 Day Homeschool Week – This is something I will be doing for the first time this coming year. I have decided we need more space in our days and weeks and think that giving us Fridays off to do other things, relax, or catch up, might just be what we need.

Organize Your Homeschool Bookshelves – I am a book addict. I love to shop at used books stores, garage sales, and library sales to fill our bookshelves at home. The problem with that is keeping them all organized so you can find what you need! Here is a system (similar to the Dewey Decimal system but much easier) I have created that makes it easy.

Homeschool Curriculum Planning – Curriculum planning is a big part of each year. It takes thought and organization to put together resources for each of our children. Here is a simple 3 step process that help me!

Cindy from Our Journey Westward

Organizing the Unorganized Learner is full of practical tips and tricks I’ve used over the years to help my boys stay focused and on task in school – as opposed to searching for pencils and workbooks every single morning.

Does your digital curriculum sit in a dusty folder on your computer? Here’s the best way I’ve found to Get the Most from Digital Curriculum – and, as a bonus, it helps me be more organized for the new school year.

Summer is when I give the school room a thorough cleaning and assess what new supplies are necessary so that I’m ready when the back-to-school sales circulars arrive. I’ve pulled together lists of The Best Art Supplies for Kids and Nature Study Must-Have Supplies and keep these in my planning binder so I can easily remember what we might be out of or need to replace.

And, of course, I spend some time during the summer putting together my Charlotte Mason Weekly Planner.

Homeschooling With A Plan in Place Organization Event!

You are invited! Starting Monday, July 9th, we are hosting Homeschooling with a Plan in Place with all our best homeschool planning and curriculum choice helps – making homeschool decisions easy. RSVP to the event on Facebook.

What are YOUR favorite homeschool organization tips? We would love to know – share a comment below!