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		<title>Organize???  Hmmm&#8230;I can do this!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, thank goodness I was told this early&#8230;organize!  Keep your child&#8217;s work well organized.  Don&#8217;t forget that at the end of each &#8220;school&#8221; year you will have to do some sort of evaluation in order for your child to &#8220;move up&#8221; a &#8220;grade&#8221;.  FYI I use the quotes since really we are home schooling [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #993366;">First off, thank goodness I was told this early&#8230;organize!  Keep your child&#8217;s work well organized.  Don&#8217;t forget that at the end of each &#8220;school&#8221; year you will have to do some sort of evaluation in order for your child to &#8220;move up&#8221; a &#8220;grade&#8221;.  FYI I use the quotes since really we are home schooling so what &#8220;grade&#8221; is your child in is not a question to worry about as much as is your child doing well and progressing as he/she should.  Each child is different.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993366;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Okay don&#8217;t let me get off topic here..lol. <img src='http://abc123homeschool.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  I can do that from time to time.  Chatty&#8230;no not me. <img src='http://abc123homeschool.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  Back to talking about organizing.  So I decided through my walk at my local Kmart store that will be closing permanently here that I would look at the stationary dept they had left and see what sales were happening.  Not good ones!  What kind of out of business sale is this I asked myself.  Well, moving down the isle I discovered folders on sale for like 10 cents.  Okay now we are talking.  This could work.  I grabbed a ton.  I grabbed one for each week in a school year, 32 weeks. And we can&#8217;t forget to grab a few extra because let&#8217;s face it, we are inexperienced and may find a few extra to be handy.  But, at least I&#8217;m trying right. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993366;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">I also found some stencils there with letters, numbers, and shapes.  Woo Hoo!  We are always learning these!  Must have in my book.  :-)  And I&#8217;ll be honest here, I don&#8217;t have the most pretty handwriting.  With that said, I was happy to grab a pack.  And when we played with them, Emmi loved them.  :-) I couldn&#8217;t help myself either!  Here is the folders:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993366;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-208" title="Organizing Folders" src="http://abc123homeschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/PICT2057-2.jpg" alt="Organizing Folders" width="350" height="263" /></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993366;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Of course I did one for each week but you get the idea with just a couple I&#8217;m sure.  I only got up to week 5 at the time and when I have time I&#8217;ll do a couple more.  The good news, I should haven&#8217;t to do this again for a couple more years as I learn more about organizing.  In each one of these I took her worksheets and coloring pages and whatever projects that she did (that would fit well into the folders of course) and put them into weeks.  Granted she won&#8217;t get evaluated this year, but I&#8217;m practicing so I can figure out more ways to get better at this.  Here is one of them opened up for you to see what I mean:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993366;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-209" title="Organizing Folders Opened" src="http://abc123homeschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/PICT2058-2.jpg" alt="Organizing Folders Opened" width="350" height="263" /></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993366;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">If you have any tips you want to share, please comment, we would all love to hear it!</span></span></p>
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