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help organize kids' school papers!!
I have a 9 year old and 6 year twins, they bring home so many papers! Does anyone have any suggestions on oraganizing all the snack schedules, lunch menus,monthly events,etc? I was thinking of a lg bulletin board,but worry everything will end up attatched and I wont see what I need. For example its reading month, and all 3 kids have different daily things to do(pj day,crazy hair day),I'm so overwhelmed by all the papers.PLEASE HELP!!!!!
Re: help organize kids' school papers!!
Accordian file folder with multiple files inside. I'm a teacher, and I use this for different classes myself. I've recommended it to several of my students (8th grade), and it's worked well for them.
GL!
This blog is wonderful. She's so organized and has some great tips!
I'd recommend using some sort of color-coding. Each child has a colored bin where they put papers in. When writing events, etc on the calendar, write each child's events in "their" color.
I teach multiple classes each day and each class has a specific color.
I recommend a big white board. You can get a very large one, made for the shower, at home depot. They might even cut it the size you want if you want it cut.
Then use some type of narrow black tape and line off months. You might want to do 6 months, or the whole year. Use this for EVERYTHING. When #1 brings home something, use a write-on board marker and write it on the calendar, saving space for several other opportunities that day. Some things I put on the calendar twice...the date due and 1 week before, especially with bigger projects and getting birthday cards in the mail on time. It works for everyone in the house.
The paper itself, you could just file in one stack by date due, so you know where to look to find it, or an accordian file that has numbers 1-31 so you could file it by date, or a week ahead. I prefer the one stack as it is easier to look ahead. It doesn't limit how many kids or others there are.
Things like school lunch menus that you use daily could be taped on the bottom edge of the board.
I think a utility room would work. You could even cut panels and put them on cabinet doors where they are basically out of guest sight.
A friend has a huge one on the wall next to her pantry door.
Get a couple accordion files - one with 31 tabs (days of the month) and one with 12+ tabs (future months). Put all the stuff you get way ahead of time (like the beginning of summer or September) in the appropriate month in the small folder. At the end of the month, re-file all that stuff into the big accordion folder.
You could also put post-its upside down (like tabs or bookmarks) on the Mondays of that month, and keep the weekly items for that week in the Monday slot, like say lunch menus for the week.
I think that system would work for multiple kids, but you may need multiple small accordion files if they all bring tons of stuff home way prior to the month it matters. I'd imagine there's not too much of that except maybe the transition times of year - end of school year, beginning of school year, holidays.