What to keep from previous year's work?

[tbarr12]

I'm finally getting around to cleaning out our school room, notebooks, and organizing for next year. I'm just wondering - what do you keep from previous years' schoolwork? Do you just throw it all in a notebook and label it with that year, do you take out the best and keep it, do you create a scrapbook, or do you keep nothing? I can't see myself having time to do a scrapbook - don't see that one as an option. But I can't see a reason to keep all the old math pages and grammar worksheets. Just wondering - I have several years' worth of stuff to go through, and would like to get it organized this summer. Thanks.

[GinainMD]

I keep one binder per child per year. This includes photos of projects, brochures from field trips, and samples of their best work. I also include bulletins from any programs they may have participated in at church. My girls love to look through and see all that they have accomplished and recall all of the fun projects. I would love to actually make them into a scrap book but so far I haven't. Happy organizing! Hope this helps.

[my3sons]

I'm like Gina - I keep one binder per child per year. I don't have photos in their binders though, and we don't go on field trips, so mine is the down-sized version. (I do think that's really neat you do that though, Gina!!!). I have tabs in the binders once the dc start Bigger Hearts and on up. The tabs are for (in general): copywork, science notebooking, history notebooking, science experiments, history activities, and then I have a general tab that is a catch all for anything else at the back of the binder. I get the big 3 inch binder and a 5 color tab set. I put everything in clear plastic sleeves. I do take pictures of the kiddos' projects as much as possible, and I often share them on the HOD weekly check-in, but I have yet to get them printed and into binders. I let them choose to keep their projects or not. When their dressers or bedstands get overly full with projects they can choose to put it in their memory box or get rid of it at that point. They each have one memory box that is a large shoe box size with a lid. So far, this has worked well. HTH!

In Christ,
Julie