What to do with child's work each year?

[deltagal]

HI all,

I'm working fierce and fast this week to get on top of the paper clutter - mostly school work - that has accumulated in the last 3 years during our moves. I have quite a pile of lovely notebooks made by my 3 boys from their HOD guides. What do you do with their work when the year is over? Are you keeping the entire notebook? A few select pages? What about the notebooking pages..are you planning to keep all of them? In separate binders? In one binder?

Until we began HOD I simply selected a sample of work in all subject areas from the beginning, middle and end of the year. But now there work is so much "nicer" I'm just pondering what to do. I look forward to your input!

[8arrows]

YES, I keep all the notebooking pages!!!!!!!! I just keep them in the binder they used that year and store them in on a bookshelf or in a closet with bookshelves. I love having everything completed and organized at the end of the year (without additional effort). The English exercises and math I bundle up and label and keep in a box in the basement. I try to avoid loose paper at all cost.

[countrymom]

I didn't keep everything our first year (Little Hearts) and was wishing I would have afterwards. I put all of the activity/art projects for Beyond in a small box and used zip locs for projects that tended to be messy afterwards. I have the copywork and spelling lists in a notebook and I kept the math workbooks. I think I am going to get one of those flat plastic storage boxes to put it all in. Then the question is where will I store those? I have no idea but I can't bring myself to part with it.

[MomtoJGJE]

I keep their work. It doesn't really take up too much room so far We keep their papers and stuff in a 2.5 inch binder, and have their math and any other workbooks stuck in there. I keep them on the top shelf in my pantry that isn't much good for anything because I can't reach it easily

[pjdobro]

I kept everything in the binders that we made during the year. I put that with the math books and other loose art projects that we still had, packed it in a box labeled with the year, and put it in the attic. I'm sure someday, I'll have to come up with a more permanent solution, but for now it works.

[my3sons]

I could have written this...

YES, I keep all the notebooking pages!!!!!!!! I just keep them in the binder they used that year and store them in on a bookshelf or in a closet with bookshelves. I love having everything completed and organized at the end of the year (without additional effort). The English exercises and math I bundle up and label and keep in a box in the basement. I try to avoid loose paper at all cost.

I too have found the loose paper to be the problem for us, so we have none. Each child has one BIG plastic tote with a lid that all of his binders are stored in. I wrote the name of the guide, the year, and the child's name on the spine of the binder, and they are all in a row in the big tub. I kept their dictation, grammar, math composition books next to the binders. I love the idea of rubber-banding them and putting them bundled up in the basement. I may move the school binders to a bookshelf, as we have such fun pulling them out at the end of the year and flipping through them to marvel at the progress each child has made through the years.

In Christ,
Julie