Tip of the Week Aug 19
Posted by Holly Nelson on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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Tip of the Week
Back to School Organization
Your kids have or will be going back to school soon. Here are a few tips to organized their time, papers, and more.
1. Scheduling:
Sit down with your child and go over their activites. Type out a schedule and routine of their daily events.
Here is an example of my elementary kids routine:
6:45~ Wake- make bed - morning chores
7:00~ Breakfast - gather things for school
7:25~ Bus
3:15~ home from school- after school snack
3:30~ homework
4:00-5:00 free time
5:00~ feed animals
5:30-6:00~ Dinner
6:30-7:45~ free time*
7:45~ shower, brush teeth, reading time (chapter of BIble and a chapter book)
8:30~ Prayers and lights out
* This is also our time for soccer on our soccer nights
Sit down with your child and go over their activites. Type out a schedule and routine of their daily events.
Here is an example of my elementary kids routine:
6:45~ Wake- make bed - morning chores
7:00~ Breakfast - gather things for school
7:25~ Bus
3:15~ home from school- after school snack
3:30~ homework
4:00-5:00 free time
5:00~ feed animals
5:30-6:00~ Dinner
6:30-7:45~ free time*
7:45~ shower, brush teeth, reading time (chapter of BIble and a chapter book)
8:30~ Prayers and lights out
* This is also our time for soccer on our soccer nights
This is printed out and laminated for them so they can easily find out what to do next.
Also, type out a schedule of their activities with this. Soccer, gymnastics, baseball, basketball, clubs,etc...
2 Calendar and Corkboard
Hang a corkboard above their bed or anywhere in their rooms. Give them their own calendar and have them write down their activites for the month. Use the cork board to pin up spelling words, school newsltters, class newsletters,etc...
3. School Paper Organization
There are many ways to organize papers. You just have to find the best way for you. Here are a few ways:
2 Calendar and Corkboard
Hang a corkboard above their bed or anywhere in their rooms. Give them their own calendar and have them write down their activites for the month. Use the cork board to pin up spelling words, school newsltters, class newsletters,etc...
3. School Paper Organization
There are many ways to organize papers. You just have to find the best way for you. Here are a few ways:
- Stackable trays- Label two for each child for "Papers to file" and "Return to school".
- Boxes(plastic shoe boxes or baskets)- Put extra notebook paper, pencils, etc in the box. Also keep the childs weekly papers in a folder in the box.
- Bulldog magnetic clip or folder for fridge- in the stationary department of Wal-Mart, there is a magnetic folder for the fridge. It is white and the front half is cut out. You can easily tuck the child weekly school papers, spelling words,etc... in the folder. Remove papers each week and put into the child's file.
- Filing System- Purchase a filing tote for each child. Label each section for each school year. Put important papers, art work, report cards, memorable papers in the file. They can take this with them when the leave home.
- Rolling Drawer Cart- Label each drawer for each child. Use a larger cart to have drawers for school supplies,too. Organize like supplies together.
- School Bookshelf- Label a shelf per child. Use baskets, trays, shoe boxes; and organize like mentioned above.
- Binder Organizers-(not the School Organizer for yourself. This is for the child) One per child. Use tab dividers for sections. Or use pocket folders that can be put in a binder. Label folders/dividers for "Papers to be signed", "Papers to be returned to school", "Weekly Class newsletter", "School newsletter", Special Events", etc...
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I am a stay-at-home-mom(SAHM) married to the love of my life, Jeff Nelson. We have six wonderful boys. Ryan(13), Seth(11), Ian(8), Noah(5), Luke(4), and Jack (born April 2010). We live in Tennessee on 4 acres. I grew up the first few years of my life on a dairy farm in Missouri and loved country living. I was saved at a young age by the grace of God and shed blood of Jesus during that time of simple country living. That part of my life is very dear to me. God taught me many things as a baby Christian that I can still think about today. Then we moved to Memphis when I was in the 5th grade. I learned to love the city life, too. It was a completely different way of life. My whole family still lives in Missouri, still does a little farming and simple country living. When Jeff, the kids, and I moved from the city to the country, I incorporated my city life with my country background. My mom laughs at me when I cut my grass on my John Deere tractor while drinking my Starbucks Mocha and wearing my fancy sunglasses. And when I am shampooing my carpet in my high-heeled black boots. I just love those boots! But I would love to share about how I got to be the way I am today, The Victoriously Organized Woman! I used to work as a supervisor at bank for years. I had to dress up everyday. After the birth of our second child we decide I should be a SAHM. One of the best decision I've ever made. But I made a bad decision, too. I hardly ever dressed up anymore. I hardly ever wore make-up. After about a year I looked in the mirror and said, "OH MY! Jeff has to come home to this!?!" He is so wonderful he said he liked me that way, "natural". Well , I realized that I didn't. It made me feel bad about myself. I felt disorganized, tired and stressed and a little "rough" looking. I felt I just couldn't get it all done. At this time I was diagnosed with Meniere's Disease. I wasn't able to do certains things. Like mop the floor of my completely hardwood floor home that I was obsessed about keeping clean. The doctor told me I couldn't have salt, caffeine, or stress! "What?! Are you kidding!?" So , then I decided to change my routine,thought pattern, and cooking. I began to get up early, shower and dress, put on make up. Always being ready to leave whenever I needed to. I established routines that helped me eliminate extra cleaning and stresses. I was able to make more time for myself and make more time for my family. And the family had more time for each other. I made more time for God and others. This made me feel better about myself. I am so happy about how this changed my life I want to share it with everyone.
