I love this channel. I have decided to take my kids out of school and homeschool them this upcoming year. Nv has fallen to dead last in the United States. I feel that they are being robbed of their education and I could do it better without them being stressed out. My only issue is doing it while being low income. Your channel gives me hope.
Ambleside also gives you free online curriculum for the Charlotte Mason Method. It's a wonderful curriculum! Check out Craigslist and EBay for inexpensive curriculum. :)
+SilentlyAdorable Always happy to see a new homeschool convert! Good luck in your journey. You could search the internet (sites like MeetUp and FaceBook) for homeschool groups in your area. YOu can get mentoring help as well as occasional outings. You may even be able to score some free or cheap curriculum that someone else is done with.
I find binding all subjects in one single book for each quarter works well for my family. My girls like having a single book for all their subjects. They also like having a simple visual of how far along we are through the school year. After they finish 1st quarter they can easily see that they are 1/4 of the way through the school year. I bind at home with a simple comb binding machine.
OMG I have to check out your blog, I have 5 children and 4 will be doing school this year, two are still young I have a preschooler and a first Grader. Then two older a 4th grader and 8th grader. This past school year I really tried to organize with a check board and it was an epic fail. I end up with piles of books all over my kitchen, I am going to do the crate system, Thank you so much for sharing your gift of organizing.
Thanks so much! I'm so glad that you liked it. The crate system is awesome. If you feel like you need more direction with getting organized, I did just create a new eCourse all about organizing your homeschool and all the "stuff" that goes with it. Here's a link to it if you want to see it: www.raisingclovers.com/buynow {You don't have to "buy now"...you can just look}
You have me so excited about getting organized!! My oldest is 4.5 and we're just embarking on this crazy journey. I'm also really interested in that handwriting curriculum you mentioned. Just a thought about the folders coming in 100s...if for example you're using the left sided red tabs for one child, take the right sided red tabs and turn them "inside out" - you've just doubled the number you can get from one box! :) Obviously for your poor middle tab child, you're stuck.
🎉I know a lot of people put the entire week of all subjects into one week- but then the child would have to figure out out to separate the daily papers between subjects- as they’re all mashed together. I like the idea of separating out daily work with all daily subjects into the weekly file by days into folders. Or at least- separating the subjects in folders into a weekly file- then the child knows to pick one paper from each folder of the week daily.
I have an entire homeschool organization course that goes into all the nuances of how to make the crate system work. You really have to find a system that works for you and your kiddo.
I have a 1st grader and I decided to seperate by quarter so we can speed up or slow down as needed. The 4th quarter is relatively empty because I know we will have some roll over from other quarters. It's my first year homeschooling so I want to see how this system goes for us. This looks like an amazing method for older and multiple kids.
Lol your first tip is one I was just thinking about! I was watching another UA-cam who said she gave each day’s work in a binder and i was sitting here thinking “no give the entire week so they can decide what and how much they want to do each day” If they want to do all of one subject one day and a variety the next, let them. Also had the same thought about taking apart workbooks lol. Love the way you have organized your stuff! Thank you for sharing this with others!
You are so right! The "How to organize" was one of my biggest fears about homeschooling as well. I just gotta tell you, I am as you say, "organizationally challenged" so I love your system. But I do have to admit, I have had to watch your video, like a gazillion times so that I can wrap my brain around it! I'm one of the slow students! LOL! But I think I got it.... maybe! Oh and tearing up the workbooks feels so naughty, yet fun!
+Claudia Seidle Ha!! It's not naughty. :) It is fun! I'm working on putting together a thorough Homeschool Organization eCourse right now. I'll be explaining everything. (I'd wanted it done by now...but life keeps getting in the way). :) Hopefully that will help. It will be available on my site (www.raisingclovers.com), but I'll do a video about it here, too.
+Raising Clovers Awesome! Can't wait to see it! I understand about life getting in the way!BTW - I think you said you were a mom of 5 and homeschooling 3. That's the very same situation for me!
Especially loved the follow up to the checklist!!! We are constantly having those... "MISSED"... weeks, and when you've dated something in ink... NOOOOOOOO!!!! ...Completely understand that!!! Thank you!!!
Elizabeth Conley Yes, I did that. I was only really stuck for the middle tabbed folders. Thanks for mentioning it here. I think I said that in one of the "chopped" portions of this finished video. :) Ha! So glad you came by and commented. Blessings!
Great tips! Thanks for sharing. We also take apart workbooks. I take a stack of them to the office supply store; they can cut up to 500 sheets for $1. Then for another $1, I have them 3-hole punch them. Saves a lot of time and keeps pages from getting torn down the middle! -Hana
+Pepper and Pine That's an excellent tip! I didn't know you could have that done at, and for so cheap! I'm going to do that. I make copies of all the workbooks so that I can pass all our curriculum on to my nephew so he and his wife can homeschool their daughters.
so so so helpful!!! I have 7 kiddos and 6 are homeschooling this year. We've been homeschooling for a total of 6 years now. This is amazing , had never seen this system before, this is going to help a lot! Thank you, so blessed to have found you on here!
+Mandie Doss Yay! You will LOVE this system! The crates are awesome! You may need two crates with so many doing work at the same time. Can't wait to hear how it goes!
if you use the pro clip binding system, you can simply print new pages and add them in. need to look into the hanging file system. what we used last year, and haven't this year, is I made a check list for my daughter of all the subjects, I put a dot on the subjects I planned to cover, and put an x when I actually finished them. helped me see if I was planning more than we could handle, and I could fit a few weeks on one page.
Greetings from Canada! I have schooled at home for 8 years and thought I had it partially down! I finally watched your video and am so inspired to completely overhaul our HS room! thank you so much for sharing your tips!
Hello fellow Californian homeschooler! You are definitely more organized with your lessons than me! You are on it! We do a lot of unit studies so I tend to group things together that way. As a matter of fact I will be posting a homeschool room tour soon and showing off my lazy system of "organizing."
+It's A Mom Blog I love it!! Everyone has their own style! You have to do what works best for you and your family. I get everything organized -- then we see if we can realistically get to it all. Some times we just skip things that aren't working. I think that is the biggest lesson I've learned -- it's okay to not finish everything! :) My public school teachers always tell me that they don't finish all their books either. :)
This is our tenth year of homeschooling and I wish I has found your box system years ago. I was just diagnosed with a chronic pain issue and I have to simplify my life. This is our second week with the system and I am amazed. It has cut down on time I need to plan for every week. I have matched that with the work box system and it is fantastic. I had a high pain day on Thursday and my son was able to grab all of his work and we did school from my bed. Thank you for sharing your awesome system.
You're welcome! I have an entire homeschool organization course. It's going to be on sale on Black Friday and again at the first of the year. That might help, too. It is so helpful to use the crate!
I love coloring coding! I have three children and we use the exact same colors as you! My oldest is green, middle is blue and the youngest is red! :) Thanks for the little tips for organizing!
Sasha Peterson So fun! A fellow color crazy mom! That's so funny that our kids colors match! Your crate will look like mine. :) Glad you liked the video! Blessings!
Thank you so much for this video. I am a thirteen year old 8th grader and I am sick of the education I'm getting here in northern Virginia, I don't feel like I'm learning and it obviously isn't the best way for each person to learn. I'm begging my parents to homeschool me next year (when I'll be a freshman) so I can see wether or not homeschooling is something I can look at pursuing all throughout high school. Anyways this video just inspired me and helped me get a look inside homeschooling! Thanks again :) (also you have such a great personality and are great in front of the camera!)
Oh my goodness. Bless you. I am a homeschooler for the 2nd year and I struggle. I have a 11th grader and a 7th grader. We are Christians and I can not afford to buy the Christian curriculum that is out there. I make my own. I wish I had found your channel when I first started homeschooling. I plan to watch a lot of your videos and get a lot of ideas from you. Thank you so much for this and blessing and favor to you and your house hold
+Spanky Cola Thanks so much for all your kind words! Thanks for checking out my other videos. Be sure to give yourself lots of grace since it's only your second year. It is hard work, but the rewards are amazing! Praying for God's blessings over your family and homeschool! :)
I am using a very reasonably priced homeschool website that has everything you need. The money you have to spend after that will be science experiment resources, which they give you a link to, and printer paper and ink. I only print in black and white. The website is home schoolhouseteachers.com last year I spent $600 on books; this year I spent $170 for this system. Right now they are having a sale that's $40 less and for a second year.
+isac wear I'm glad you liked the video. I'm replying here since there is not link to reply to your comment. I just wanted to tell you that I'm working on a blog post and video all about homeschooling toddlers and preschoolers. My advice for now is to just enjoy them and relax and play! Kids learn through playing! :) Have fun! :) Get library books out on topics they are interested in. Hope that helps.
I heard someone say Kristi Clover method when I mentioned how I set up our weeks in the file system like your crate system and I use a binder by subject that we fill with our current week. And then here you are popping up in my youtube. Love this! I tried it for our first year and made it complicated in my head and dropped it. I went back to it and adjusted this year, it’s been fabulous. Great minds think alike and so happy there are others doing this same system with success. Thank you for sharing.
I have a 2y/o I want to homeschool and pregnant with my second. I'm hoping to get some fun learning started when my son is 3. I'm loving your videos so that I can get reviews and see what is working for others! Thank You!
Ok Kristi I am already a pro thanks to you with you homeschool organization lol, know my problem is I need help to organized (tips) my homeschool record keeping. PLEASE DO A VIDEOoooo TO SEE YOU GREAT WORK THAT YOU ALLWAY DO:-)
Thank you so much for this video! I struggled my first year of homeschooling, especially with the whole writing in the dates of the week's comment at the end! I will try all of these systems this year and take your advice. I'm so excited!
Thanks for this help! I came across it at the beginning of this school year (2016-17) and it has been SO helpful. I have used your check list idea. I modified some of the rest of it. We've got the hanging file folders by week like you suggested. And inside the hanging files the color coded files by kid. Then I color code subject with different color paper clips and leave incomplete work in the hanging files. At the end of the week we move each kid's work into their binder. I separate work in the binder by subject with color coded tabs to match the paper clips. It's been a huge help for our organization this year! Thanks again.
I am so glad to have found you!!! This is my first year homeschooling. I'm taking my son out of a CS in NYC. I was completely overwhelmed at the mere thought of organizing this new adventure. Thank you soooooooo much. I'm about to jump into your other videos.
Rewatching this video as I prep for our upcoming year. I have. Kindergartener joining us this year and am trying to figure out the best set up for her. Thinking I’m going with daily folders. Thanks, Kristi!
I'm only 3 minutes in and I LOVE this already! I'm new to homeschooling (just finished our first year) and we are fairly new to our own UA-cam channel, and I'm definitely going to try these out! Thank you so much for the video!
I"m a homeschool mom of 7 and I loved your video we are looking for new ways to organize our school and this was fabulous I have 5 actually schooling and one preschooler and a baby! This is going to help me get my act together LOL I'm excited to start! we school year round so I may tweek it to fit our needs but that's why we homeschool right :D
I like #2. I have a rising 4th and 6th grader and I believe this will work better for them, if not I can change it. Their not that independent yet...thank you for this video.
***** Wow! Thanks so much! What a blessing to hear! & you are so welcome for sharing what I've learned along the way. :) Thanks again for the sweet compliment!! Blessings!
Awesome! I was really struggling last year when my daughter started homeschooling due to bullying. I already have all of the supplies from my old work. I'm definitely going to try this. THANK YOU!!!
Just finished my crate system, pretty sure I'm in love! Ordered some other supplies for the filing system and then...hoping my hubby will help me make a checklist ;-) I have 4 children and their colors are green, blue, pink, and purple! Thank you thank you thank you for this!
Thhhhhaaaaaakkkk Youuuu.... lol Sorry I have been trying to find ways to do this more efficiently and organized and here you are .... this helped me so much, I have 6 kids and it has been challenging being this is my first year how to do this so that I wont give up on it... I love it but I need to have everything I need but that of course is not always realistic, but this is a big help to me.
Thank you sooo much for these videos!!!! I only have a 4 an 2 year old, with one on the way due in Dec. but I have been terrified of even starting to homeschool. Your videos really show that this possible an you go into so much needed detail!!!!!Thank You!!!!!!!!
+GoldenLife Emi Lewis You can do it -- just not now! :) Have fun! Enjoy your kids! Get them excited about learning, but don't start trying to school them formally until your oldest is 5 or 6. I call it sneaky school at this age. Having fun is learning!
Oh my goodness, these are wonderful systems, I will most certainly be using some of them especially the first one I've been trying to figure out something to do with all the papers and I'm one who never tears workbooks apart but I think this year I may change that!!
You have such a great personality! I love these systems and I think the binder one will work well for my K and 1st grader. I tear books apart all the time and put them in page protectors so I can use them again for the next child. We go through a lot of dry erase markers lol.
TotallyTyra Ha! We go through a lot of dry erase markers, too. :) Thanks so much Tyra! Hope these systems help your homeschool run more smoothly. :) Blessings!
Thank-you so very much for sharing all your tips and helpful ideas that work for your family. I am going out tomorrow to get my crate and folders. So excited to put things into action!!
This is GREAT!! Also, thank you for acknowledging those w ONE child. You are the first person to say it from ALLLLL the videos I see. It's all how to organize w multiple kids which is amazing and so needed but not needed for everyone. I'm just starting out, we have one, but I still need some suggestions. So again, thank you for including us.
WOW!!! In her effort to help you simplify your homeschooling she definitely overwhelmed me!! lol I had to watch the video 3 times and take notes lol I’ll definitely be checking out all of the links she has in the description menu. Tonnes of resources!!
:) You're so cute! I have a course that goes into all the details that you might have been confused by. You can check it out at HomeschoolOrganization.com :) I do have lots of other resources for homeschooling on my site, too. I love helping people out with all things homeschooling.
Wow! I just found you tonight and you already are blessing me. I have a toddler so I just started, but I'm already overwhelmed and questioning our home school decision. If you have advice on toddler curriculum, activities, even field trips that would be so awesome to hear about. GOD BLESS YOU!
I love your checklist, that's fantastic! :) I, like you, have in the past become very overwhelmed with planners and trying to keep up with everything weekly/daily. I usually write it all out on my white board so I don't feel to "committed" lol This is great! Thank you for sharing your many wonderful tips! Blessings!
rebecca White Yes, right?! I was always erasing all the that I worked so hard to write in my calendar. It was so frustrating! I really love this way of doing it! :) Hope it helps you this year! Thanks so much for commenting! Blessings!
Thank you so much. I've been homeschooling seems like forever but it seem liked my system just didn't work. I did as you suggested scrapped what i was using spent all night reorganizing tearing books apart. Instead of using a manila folders i used two 12 folder plastic pockets and all weekly homework is in another docit pocket folder. I've had all the supplies but needed someone to point me in the right direction.
You're an angel!!! lol God bless you and your family, thank you for your help!!! I will be homeschooling my one and only (so far. I'd love to have 5 c; ) Kindergartner in CA. I'm still trying to figure out the laws of record keeping, etc. I won't have to file an affidavit for a year and a half (she 4 1/2 now) but I want to get myself prepared for when the time comes. Any advice? lol I haven't finished the video yet :) Thanks again!!!!!
when I have kids (im 12) I want to homeschool and I want to be a family like brtayley and when I do online school to my kids I will do the binder system
I just found your channel,Thank you for sharing. I have been trying to figure out how to organize for homeschool. I am going to have to try one of the systems you share. I have my four kids colored coded. But I only homeschool my youngest two.
Hi I love your personality and organizing methods! I am wondering if you can do a video about how you organized your check list,.. we are behind and hoping that making a checklist system would work for us better! Thank You
+Maribee Menendez kuhr I'm actually trying to put together a whole eCourse on all of my homeschool organizational systems. It will have all the checklists and more. It's taking longer than I expected--juggling homeschooling and the technological learning curve. ;) Hope to have it by late spring.
This is awesome!!! Thank you so much. I hated writing out on my planner only to have to erase and catch up and change things, it would get soooo confusing!!! Also love the crate system idea, and what to do with all those finished papers from all the different subjects!!! Thank you so much!!!
Karin Dunham Ha, yes! Someone below said the same thing! I hated erasing constantly. So frustrating! :) This works better for us. I hope you like it if you try it! You'll love the crate system! Excited to hear how it goes! Blessings!
I've been looking forward to this video!!Thank you for sharing these tips Kristi. I'll be gleaning some of these ideas and putting them to practice with our family. Thank you for putting in the time to share during this very busy time. xoxo
TheNoacks Absolutely! I'm so glad that you like it! I feel bad that it took so long to put together, but so happy it is done. :) Praying it does bless your family & your homeschool
SO! I love this method so much I use it for my girls and tweaked the folder system just a bit since my children are 3rd grade and K-5. I just posted a video about it and mentioned you and linked this video in the description. :)
Amazing! We are just about to start our first proper year of HE(UK) and I have been REALLY stressing myself out about how to organise our work etc. This has solved all of that, happy mum!!! Thank you, good luck with your year :)
Your enthusiasm is so infectious!!!! Thank you for sharing how you homeschool. God bless you and your family!
+Arla Alexander Thanks so much! So sweet of you to say! Blessings to you and your family!
I love this channel. I have decided to take my kids out of school and homeschool them this upcoming year. Nv has fallen to dead last in the United States. I feel that they are being robbed of their education and I could do it better without them being stressed out. My only issue is doing it while being low income. Your channel gives me hope.
+SilentlyAdorable Yay! I'm so excited for you! :) There are lots of ways to homeschool for cheap. Your library will be your best friend.
Ambleside also gives you free online curriculum for the Charlotte Mason Method. It's a wonderful curriculum! Check out Craigslist and EBay for inexpensive curriculum. :)
+Home Ec Obsessed thanks
+Leslie Sutton thanks
+SilentlyAdorable Always happy to see a new homeschool convert! Good luck in your journey. You could search the internet (sites like MeetUp and FaceBook) for homeschool groups in your area. YOu can get mentoring help as well as occasional outings. You may even be able to score some free or cheap curriculum that someone else is done with.
Your Joy when you speak of your children and homeschooling is so joyful!!
+MrsChrissy G. Thanks so much!
I find binding all subjects in one single book for each quarter works well for my family. My girls like having a single book for all their subjects. They also like having a simple visual of how far along we are through the school year. After they finish 1st quarter they can easily see that they are 1/4 of the way through the school year. I bind at home with a simple comb binding machine.
Do you have a UA-cam channel? I would love to see a video on the binder method you use.
Is it silly that I love binding things too? Ha! I have one of those binding machines too. So satisfying.
I implemented this system this year and it’s been our most organized, productive year so far. Thanks!
Oh my. I am already overwhelmed at min 9
I was feeling overwhelmed at min 6 😂
OMG I have to check out your blog, I have 5 children and 4 will be doing school this year, two are still young I have a preschooler and a first Grader. Then two older a 4th grader and 8th grader. This past school year I really tried to organize with a check board and it was an epic fail. I end up with piles of books all over my kitchen, I am going to do the crate system, Thank you so much for sharing your gift of organizing.
Thanks so much! I'm so glad that you liked it. The crate system is awesome. If you feel like you need more direction with getting organized, I did just create a new eCourse all about organizing your homeschool and all the "stuff" that goes with it. Here's a link to it if you want to see it: www.raisingclovers.com/buynow {You don't have to "buy now"...you can just look}
You have me so excited about getting organized!! My oldest is 4.5 and we're just embarking on this crazy journey. I'm also really interested in that handwriting curriculum you mentioned.
Just a thought about the folders coming in 100s...if for example you're using the left sided red tabs for one child, take the right sided red tabs and turn them "inside out" - you've just doubled the number you can get from one box! :) Obviously for your poor middle tab child, you're stuck.
🎉I know a lot of people put the entire week of all subjects into one week- but then the child would have to figure out out to separate the daily papers between subjects- as they’re all mashed together. I like the idea of separating out daily work with all daily subjects into the weekly file by days into folders. Or at least- separating the subjects in folders into a weekly file- then the child knows to pick one paper from each folder of the week daily.
I have an entire homeschool organization course that goes into all the nuances of how to make the crate system work. You really have to find a system that works for you and your kiddo.
I have a 1st grader and I decided to seperate by quarter so we can speed up or slow down as needed. The 4th quarter is relatively empty because I know we will have some roll over from other quarters. It's my first year homeschooling so I want to see how this system goes for us. This looks like an amazing method for older and multiple kids.
Lol your first tip is one I was just thinking about! I was watching another UA-cam who said she gave each day’s work in a binder and i was sitting here thinking “no give the entire week so they can decide what and how much they want to do each day” If they want to do all of one subject one day and a variety the next, let them. Also had the same thought about taking apart workbooks lol. Love the way you have organized your stuff! Thank you for sharing this with others!
Yes! Weekly planning, color coding & handy dandy crates! Love it!
You are so right! The "How to organize" was one of my biggest fears about homeschooling as well. I just gotta tell you, I am as you say, "organizationally challenged" so I love your system. But I do have to admit, I have had to watch your video, like a gazillion times so that I can wrap my brain around it! I'm one of the slow students! LOL! But I think I got it.... maybe! Oh and tearing up the workbooks feels so naughty, yet fun!
+Claudia Seidle Ha!! It's not naughty. :) It is fun! I'm working on putting together a thorough Homeschool Organization eCourse right now. I'll be explaining everything. (I'd wanted it done by now...but life keeps getting in the way). :) Hopefully that will help. It will be available on my site (www.raisingclovers.com), but I'll do a video about it here, too.
+Raising Clovers Awesome! Can't wait to see it! I understand about life getting in the way!BTW - I think you said you were a mom of 5 and homeschooling 3. That's the very same situation for me!
Especially loved the follow up to the checklist!!! We are constantly having those... "MISSED"... weeks, and when you've dated something in ink... NOOOOOOOO!!!! ...Completely understand that!!! Thank you!!!
My son is doing K 12 and I am learning how to be orgnized with the stuff, So thank you for showing
Thank God for you!
You can flip left or right tabbed folders inside out to make them the opposite side. It's also a good way to reuse the ones you've written on.
Elizabeth Conley Yes, I did that. I was only really stuck for the middle tabbed folders. Thanks for mentioning it here. I think I said that in one of the "chopped" portions of this finished video. :) Ha! So glad you came by and commented. Blessings!
Great tips! Thanks for sharing. We also take apart workbooks. I take a stack of them to the office supply store; they can cut up to 500 sheets for $1. Then for another $1, I have them 3-hole punch them. Saves a lot of time and keeps pages from getting torn down the middle!
-Hana
+Pepper and Pine Great tip!! I love that! I might have to try that next year.
+Pepper and Pine That's an excellent tip! I didn't know you could have that done at, and for so cheap! I'm going to do that. I make copies of all the workbooks so that I can pass all our curriculum on to my nephew so he and his wife can homeschool their daughters.
Mary, that's so generous of you! And an equally good idea :)
so so so helpful!!! I have 7 kiddos and 6 are homeschooling this year. We've been homeschooling for a total of 6 years now. This is amazing , had never seen this system before, this is going to help a lot! Thank you, so blessed to have found you on here!
+Mandie Doss Yay! You will LOVE this system! The crates are awesome! You may need two crates with so many doing work at the same time. Can't wait to hear how it goes!
if you use the pro clip binding system, you can simply print new pages and add them in.
need to look into the hanging file system.
what we used last year, and haven't this year, is I made a check list for my daughter of all the subjects, I put a dot on the subjects I planned to cover, and put an x when I actually finished them. helped me see if I was planning more than we could handle, and I could fit a few weeks on one page.
I've watched this videos a dozen times and just keep getting more out of it! Thanks for sharing
You are so friendly! Not only is your advice good but your friendliness make me want to take it :)
Greetings from Canada! I have schooled at home for 8 years and thought I had it partially down! I finally watched your video and am so inspired to completely overhaul our HS room! thank you so much for sharing your tips!
Hello fellow Californian homeschooler! You are definitely more organized with your lessons than me! You are on it! We do a lot of unit studies so I tend to group things together that way. As a matter of fact I will be posting a homeschool room tour soon and showing off my lazy system of "organizing."
+It's A Mom Blog I love it!! Everyone has their own style! You have to do what works best for you and your family. I get everything organized -- then we see if we can realistically get to it all. Some times we just skip things that aren't working. I think that is the biggest lesson I've learned -- it's okay to not finish everything! :) My public school teachers always tell me that they don't finish all their books either. :)
This is our tenth year of homeschooling and I wish I has found your box system years ago. I was just diagnosed with a chronic pain issue and I have to simplify my life. This is our second week with the system and I am amazed. It has cut down on time I need to plan for every week. I have matched that with the work box system and it is fantastic. I had a high pain day on Thursday and my son was able to grab all of his work and we did school from my bed. Thank you for sharing your awesome system.
You're welcome! I have an entire homeschool organization course. It's going to be on sale on Black Friday and again at the first of the year. That might help, too. It is so helpful to use the crate!
I love coloring coding! I have three children and we use the exact same colors as you! My oldest is green, middle is blue and the youngest is red! :) Thanks for the little tips for organizing!
Sasha Peterson So fun! A fellow color crazy mom! That's so funny that our kids colors match! Your crate will look like mine. :) Glad you liked the video! Blessings!
Thank you so much for this video. I am a thirteen year old 8th grader and I am sick of the education I'm getting here in northern Virginia, I don't feel like I'm learning and it obviously isn't the best way for each person to learn. I'm begging my parents to homeschool me next year (when I'll be a freshman) so I can see wether or not homeschooling is something I can look at pursuing all throughout high school. Anyways this video just inspired me and helped me get a look inside homeschooling! Thanks again :) (also you have such a great personality and are great in front of the camera!)
Aww, what a thoughtful young person you are! I sure hope it works out for you.
Oh my goodness. Bless you. I am a homeschooler for the 2nd year and I struggle. I have a 11th grader and a 7th grader. We are Christians and I can not afford to buy the Christian curriculum that is out there. I make my own. I wish I had found your channel when I first started homeschooling. I plan to watch a lot of your videos and get a lot of ideas from you. Thank you so much for this and blessing and favor to you and your house hold
+Spanky Cola Thanks so much for all your kind words! Thanks for checking out my other videos. Be sure to give yourself lots of grace since it's only your second year. It is hard work, but the rewards are amazing! Praying for God's blessings over your family and homeschool! :)
I am using a very reasonably priced homeschool website that has everything you need. The money you have to spend after that will be science experiment resources, which they give you a link to, and printer paper and ink. I only print in black and white. The website is home schoolhouseteachers.com last year I spent $600 on books; this year I spent $170 for this system. Right now they are having a sale that's $40 less and for a second year.
i am homeschooling five children as well! I am currently pregnant with our sixth. Thank you for your helpful video!
-rissa
+isac wear I'm glad you liked the video. I'm replying here since there is not link to reply to your comment. I just wanted to tell you that I'm working on a blog post and video all about homeschooling toddlers and preschoolers. My advice for now is to just enjoy them and relax and play! Kids learn through playing! :) Have fun! :) Get library books out on topics they are interested in. Hope that helps.
Thank you for your video 😘😘👍🏻
I like what you said about planning for the week, not by day. Great tip.
The Purple Alphabet Thanks! Yes, I've found it really helpful to only plan for the week.
these methods can be very useful with keeping up with public school too!
I've color-coded my boys for years (even outside of the classroom)!!!
Love your energy...thanks for sharing these tips!
Hi, thanks for the video! It was very helpful and timely. Although I would like to know more about how to plan a calendar. Thanks!
I heard someone say Kristi Clover method when I mentioned how I set up our weeks in the file system like your crate system and I use a binder by subject that we fill with our current week. And then here you are popping up in my youtube. Love this! I tried it for our first year and made it complicated in my head and dropped it. I went back to it and adjusted this year, it’s been fabulous. Great minds think alike and so happy there are others doing this same system with success. Thank you for sharing.
Just got back from Walmart buying all my stuff to organize and try out your systems! Can't wait to get everything set up and ready!
Week 13B! I love it! What a great idea!
I have a 2y/o I want to homeschool and pregnant with my second. I'm hoping to get some fun learning started when my son is 3. I'm loving your videos so that I can get reviews and see what is working for others! Thank You!
+Elysia Nicole Thanks so much! Take your time getting started officially. Make learning fun! Don't do anything formal until they are a bit older. :)
Ok Kristi I am already a pro thanks to you with you homeschool organization lol, know my problem is I need help to organized (tips) my homeschool record keeping. PLEASE DO A VIDEOoooo TO SEE YOU GREAT WORK THAT YOU ALLWAY DO:-)
Thank you so much for this video! I struggled my first year of homeschooling, especially with the whole writing in the dates of the week's comment at the end! I will try all of these systems this year and take your advice. I'm so excited!
Thanks for this help! I came across it at the beginning of this school year (2016-17) and it has been SO helpful. I have used your check list idea. I modified some of the rest of it. We've got the hanging file folders by week like you suggested. And inside the hanging files the color coded files by kid. Then I color code subject with different color paper clips and leave incomplete work in the hanging files. At the end of the week we move each kid's work into their binder. I separate work in the binder by subject with color coded tabs to match the paper clips. It's been a huge help for our organization this year! Thanks again.
I am so glad to have found you!!! This is my first year homeschooling. I'm taking my son out of a CS in NYC. I was completely overwhelmed at the mere thought of organizing this new adventure. Thank you soooooooo much. I'm about to jump into your other videos.
Rewatching this video as I prep for our upcoming year. I have. Kindergartener joining us this year and am trying to figure out the best set up for her. Thinking I’m going with daily folders.
Thanks, Kristi!
I'm only 3 minutes in and I LOVE this already! I'm new to homeschooling (just finished our first year) and we are fairly new to our own UA-cam channel, and I'm definitely going to try these out! Thank you so much for the video!
I can never get enough organization tips! Thank you!
I"m a homeschool mom of 7 and I loved your video we are looking for new ways to organize our school and this was fabulous I have 5 actually schooling and one preschooler and a baby! This is going to help me get my act together LOL I'm excited to start! we school year round so I may tweek it to fit our needs but that's why we homeschool right :D
I like #2. I have a rising 4th and 6th grader and I believe this will work better for them, if not I can change it. Their not that independent yet...thank you for this video.
Thank you for sharing this! I just pulled my 5 year old out of school and embarking on this journey and felt so scattered!!!
+Andreea Souca That's normal to feel scattered. :)
Thank you for your systems!
I would like to thank you very much for the the very good explanation about organizing homeschool. May God bless you!
You radiate joy! :) thank you for sharing your wisdom!
***** Wow! Thanks so much! What a blessing to hear! & you are so welcome for sharing what I've learned along the way. :) Thanks again for the sweet compliment!! Blessings!
i Love School on The go!! we totally do that when we need to!!!
Awesome!
I was really struggling last year when my daughter started homeschooling due to bullying. I already have all of the supplies from my old work. I'm definitely going to try this.
THANK YOU!!!
Just finished my crate system, pretty sure I'm in love! Ordered some other supplies for the filing system and then...hoping my hubby will help me make a checklist ;-) I have 4 children and their colors are green, blue, pink, and purple! Thank you thank you thank you for this!
Yay!! So happy you were able to get started with the course!! :) Hope it really blesses your homeschool!
what file folders do you use? Did you buy a single color pack that have the tab on the same side?
Yay for school on the go...ha ha...so true.
This is my first year as homeschooling mom thanks for advice it helps
+christina fox I'm so glad you were encouraged! :)
You have no idea, what great ideas I got from this video! Thanks a ton:)
Gargee Bhandare Wadhwani Oh yay! So glad you like this video & found it helpful! Blessings!
Thhhhhaaaaaakkkk Youuuu.... lol Sorry I have been trying to find ways to do this more efficiently and organized and here you are .... this helped me so much, I have 6 kids and it has been challenging being this is my first year how to do this so that I wont give up on it... I love it but I need to have everything I need but that of course is not always realistic, but this is a big help to me.
so many good ideas. I jumped from two to five and need to rework our organization. thanks
you are just a delight. many blessings to you and your family! I am researching homeschool for my son and found this video. #hooked
+Marcia Felker Thanks so much! Glad you found me!
Very possibly homeschooling this year and this video was so so helpful!!
Thank you sooo much for these videos!!!! I only have a 4 an 2 year old, with one on the way due in Dec. but I have been terrified of even starting to homeschool. Your videos really show that this possible an you go into so much needed detail!!!!!Thank You!!!!!!!!
+GoldenLife Emi Lewis You can do it -- just not now! :) Have fun! Enjoy your kids! Get them excited about learning, but don't start trying to school them formally until your oldest is 5 or 6. I call it sneaky school at this age. Having fun is learning!
Oh my goodness, these are wonderful systems, I will most certainly be using some of them especially the first one I've been trying to figure out something to do with all the papers and I'm one who never tears workbooks apart but I think this year I may change that!!
You have such a great personality! I love these systems and I think the binder one will work well for my K and 1st grader. I tear books apart all the time and put them in page protectors so I can use them again for the next child. We go through a lot of dry erase markers lol.
TotallyTyra Ha! We go through a lot of dry erase markers, too. :) Thanks so much Tyra! Hope these systems help your homeschool run more smoothly. :) Blessings!
I looovvvve this, this is going to help me sooo much!!!!
Thank-you so very much for sharing all your tips and helpful ideas that work for your family. I am going out tomorrow to get my crate and folders. So excited to put things into action!!
+Sherry Akuta Yay! Hope you love the crate system! :)
This is GREAT!! Also, thank you for acknowledging those w ONE child. You are the first person to say it from ALLLLL the videos I see. It's all how to organize w multiple kids which is amazing and so needed but not needed for everyone. I'm just starting out, we have one, but I still need some suggestions. So again, thank you for including us.
I love this! I am always struggling with how to organize and sort. I am so glad i found your channel.
wow I am in my 2nd full year of homeschooling and i am going to try your system thank you so much for sharing your knowledge on it .
Thank you this has blessed me tremendously
WOW!!! In her effort to help you simplify your homeschooling she definitely overwhelmed me!! lol
I had to watch the video 3 times and take notes lol
I’ll definitely be checking out all of the links she has in the description menu. Tonnes of resources!!
:) You're so cute! I have a course that goes into all the details that you might have been confused by. You can check it out at HomeschoolOrganization.com :) I do have lots of other resources for homeschooling on my site, too. I love helping people out with all things homeschooling.
Wow! I just found you tonight and you already are blessing me. I have a toddler so I just started, but I'm already overwhelmed and questioning our home school decision. If you have advice on toddler curriculum, activities, even field trips that would be so awesome to hear about. GOD BLESS YOU!
oh my! super organized. great job.
What do you do when the workbook has the front of the page for one week and the back of the page for the next week?
Very cute. We use a system that combines your #2 & #3. 😊
we color code around here as well
I love your checklist, that's fantastic! :) I, like you, have in the past become very overwhelmed with planners and trying to keep up with everything weekly/daily. I usually write it all out on my white board so I don't feel to "committed" lol
This is great! Thank you for sharing your many wonderful tips! Blessings!
rebecca White Yes, right?! I was always erasing all the that I worked so hard to write in my calendar. It was so frustrating! I really love this way of doing it! :) Hope it helps you this year! Thanks so much for commenting! Blessings!
Awesome video! Thanks so much for sharing your organizing systems!
Thank you so much. I've been homeschooling seems like forever but it seem liked my system just didn't work. I did as you suggested scrapped what i was using spent all night reorganizing tearing books apart. Instead of using a manila folders i used two 12 folder plastic pockets and all weekly homework is in another docit pocket folder. I've had all the supplies but needed someone to point me in the right direction.
+Lei Kalmoto Great! I hope you like the system! :) I love hearing how people are making it work in their homeschools.
This is my first year homeschooling this was very helpful!
So thankful I found your channel! You've given me some great ideas!
You're an angel!!! lol God bless you and your family, thank you for your help!!! I will be homeschooling my one and only (so far. I'd love to have 5 c; ) Kindergartner in CA. I'm still trying to figure out the laws of record keeping, etc. I won't have to file an affidavit for a year and a half (she 4 1/2 now) but I want to get myself prepared for when the time comes. Any advice? lol I haven't finished the video yet :) Thanks again!!!!!
when I have kids (im 12) I want to homeschool and I want to be a family like brtayley and when I do online school to my kids I will do the binder system
I just found your channel,Thank you for sharing. I have been trying to figure out how to organize for homeschool. I am going to have to try one of the systems you share. I have my four kids colored coded. But I only homeschool my youngest two.
Hi I love your personality and organizing methods! I am wondering if you can do a video about how you organized your check list,.. we are behind and hoping that making a checklist system would work for us better! Thank You
+Maribee Menendez kuhr I'm actually trying to put together a whole eCourse on all of my homeschool organizational systems. It will have all the checklists and more. It's taking longer than I expected--juggling homeschooling and the technological learning curve. ;) Hope to have it by late spring.
Thank you for sharing these great resources and especially your joyful spirit. We love having an organized homeschool system!!
School on the go. I love it!! 5:58
Thank you so much for sharing, I am new at homeschooling and my daughter is starting kindergartens this has helped me a lot.
you make it look so easy!!!
I am new to homeschooling and you definitely blessed me! Thank you!
This is awesome!!! Thank you so much. I hated writing out on my planner only to have to erase and catch up and change things, it would get soooo confusing!!!
Also love the crate system idea, and what to do with all those finished papers from all the different subjects!!! Thank you so much!!!
Karin Dunham Ha, yes! Someone below said the same thing! I hated erasing constantly. So frustrating! :) This works better for us. I hope you like it if you try it! You'll love the crate system! Excited to hear how it goes! Blessings!
I've been looking forward to this video!!Thank you for sharing these tips Kristi. I'll be gleaning some of these ideas and putting them to practice with our family. Thank you for putting in the time to share during this very busy time. xoxo
TheNoacks Absolutely! I'm so glad that you like it! I feel bad that it took so long to put together, but so happy it is done. :) Praying it does bless your family & your homeschool
thank you for your reply and advice. i will look into your blogs.
I really enjoy your videos. Thank you so much. You are so helpful.
Lisa Barker Thanks! I'm so glad you like them! :) What a blessings to hear! I'm happy they were helpful.
Great tips girl, I'll be stealing some of those for sure!
sublimejen Thanks, Jen! Steal away! ;) Hope they are helpful!
SO! I love this method so much I use it for my girls and tweaked the folder system just a bit since my children are 3rd grade and K-5. I just posted a video about it and mentioned you and linked this video in the description. :)
Thanks! I'm so glad you like it! :)
We are in week two of school now and I've been enjoying it so far. It may have been a homeschool life changer for me lol.
I have really enjoyed your videos! Your enthusiasm is contagious :)
ManyMiniMunoz's Thanks! Can you tell homeschool is my passion? ;) I really enjoy it, but I REALLY enjoy helping others get excited about it.
Amazing! We are just about to start our first proper year of HE(UK) and I have been REALLY stressing myself out about how to organise our work etc. This has solved all of that, happy mum!!! Thank you, good luck with your year :)
Yay! Glad it helped. :) Congrats to your first year.
Yes! Thank you so much!
Kristie McCollum You're welcome! :)
You are so positive and inspiring! I thoroughly enjoyed this video :)
refocusingon the family Thanks so much! What a blessings to hear! I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video! Blessings to you!