All year long I have collected just about all the kids school work and projects and put them in an large art folder; BUT I need to be better about purging on a regular basis because now I am looking at a huge file of stuff that I need to go through, on top of all the other stuff in the house that I need to go through (sigh). My Mom kept a binder of things that I made when I was in elementary school (in the early 1970's!) and gave it to me a couple of years ago. Recently, Lindsey and I went through it, and she got a kick out of seeing mommy's writing/drawings/stories from first grade...now she wants to keep ALL of her stuff for the same purpose and laid the guilts on me one day when I tried to throw something away! I plan on creating a binder...but...if anyone is reading this, how do you manage your kids school work throughout the year and for posterity?
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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Okay so I am not really one of those moms that saves every little thing the kids bring home but I decided to try and keep a few things each year. Clutter and mess drive me crazy! I decided that if it was a big project or paper I would keep it. If it is just an everyday assignment then it would go. I do however keep their journals from year to year. With some of the bigger things such as poster board projects I take a picture and write a little note to go along with it. Otherwise after 13 years in school I would have way to many things to store. Hope this gives you some ideas.
Thanks Veronica...I love the idea of taking a picture of the larger things! I am going to throw the everyday work out...and keep some of the pictures/stories they drew to put in the binder...I will most definitely keep the journals...I love seeing the progress over the year. All the paper makes me crazy, too.
what I have done since preschool is keep everything that Kristen brings home thru the school year, even from Sunday school. I keep it in a box. At the end of school we move the tables out of the family room, spread it all out and I video tape it and Kristen walks around telling stories about the items. Then we sort together keeping the "good" stuff and tossign the rest. This way I "keep" it all without the storage problem.
Cathy
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