The new school year is a time of excitement. Let’s start this year with an organized homeschool! In this episode, Meredith Curtis and Felice Gerwitz share their years of homeschool wisdom with you!

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1. File away books and materials where they go
   
2. Pray – what went well, what went poorly and what worked.
   
3. Three-Ring Binder – Master Homeschool Book (or File)
   
   • Homeschool records through the years
     
   • Copy of final grades (high school)
     
   • Testing Results (high school)
     
   • Important Information
     
   
   
4. Beginning – look at
   
   • what we’d like to study
     
   • totes of books in what we are going to need
     
   • pencils, pens, art supplies
     
   • shelf — reading books in order
     
   
   
5. Where do you “do” school
   
   • Tote books to where you do school
     
   • If you do school in a homeschool room use a desk or shelf to put supplies
     
   
   
6. Talk to the kids about what you will learn
   
   • Explain what you will learn this year
     
   • Ask your children what they’d like to learn
     
   • Make changes if they want to add something
     
   • Post final class topics
     
   
   
7. Make a schedule
   
   • Use it for two weeks and revamp if needed
     
   • Make it work for you
     
   • Don’t be a slave to your schedule
     
   • Give kids a checklist
     
   • Put up the master list
     
   • Leave Friday as a free day
     
   • Look at your book and divide the lessons by the number of days your school
     
   • Schedule in an empty week in spring or fall
     
   
   
8. Organizing shelves
   
   • In subject topics
     
   • According to level and chronology
     
   • Keep shelves organized each week
     
   
   

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