Just as you need to plan out what you will teach in each homeschool year, you need to figure out how you are going to store all the material you will need as well. Here are some tips to make it easier to store and retrieve your study material.
Store by Use
If you use something everyday it should be stored in your school room on easily accessible shelves or bags that your children can reach easily. Material that is needed rarely can be kept in higher shelves of a cupboard and taken out when required. Sort out all your material into daily storage and long term storage to see what needs to go where. Somethings may even be left out on the study desk if you have a dedicated homeschool classroom.
Storage Containers
Different types of storage containers can be used. A regular cupboard, open shelves, add on book shelves on the wall, a bag slung over the back of a chair: you can use all kinds of spaces to store your material. Papers and worksheets can be tamed by having specific folders and binders for them. Some can be put right away into the portfolio of your homeschooling student. The basic idea is to have a place for everything and then remember to put everything in its place.
Planning Your Storage
A single available cupboard dedicated to study material can make storing your stuff much easier. If you have the space and the budget, have one such cupboard commissioned for your homeschooling classroom. Another good idea a homeschooling mother used was building four small cupboards on wheels. These doubled up as worktables and all shelves were easily accessible by the kids. At the end of the say they could all be pushed together against the wall to free up space in the room.
Your storage plans will depend on what suits the needs of your homeschool classroom best. There are a lot of ideas that you can use to ensure that your study material is stored in a systematic and effective manner. Check out the photographs and ideas shared on various websites to get your own ideal storage system going.
