How I Organize Our Schooling | Pt 2

In the last post How I Organize Our Schooling | Pt 1, I went over how I created my lesson plans for the year.  Today I plan to go over how I organize my binder which keeps everything in one place.

So pretty!

I have a zipper pouch in the front of my binder that has all the discs we use for lessons.  Right behind the DVD's I keep our Sonlight map for the year so it's easily accessible for us to use each day.  We also have a globe we use everyday as well.

Behind our map I have our attendance, and yearly calendar.

After our calendar is our curriculum plan for the year and then after that I'll put a copy of my private school affidavit after I've filed.

I keep 9 weeks worth of lesson plans and reading notes in my binder.  At the top of each week I have my weekly lesson plans and then behind that I have my history, read aloud, and reader notes that we can go over after we've completed the reading for the day.  I love to use my post it tabs to mark each section of notes. 

In the back of the binder I keep my additional Sonlight info as well as a few pocket folders for blank paper, additional curriculum notes, and a page protector with all my receipts for any school supplies for the year.  This makes it easy to file away my binder at the end of the year and all my records required by the state are in one place.

I've found this method to be so easy to keep track of everything and at the end of the year I know exactly what I accomplished and when I accomplished it.