I love being able to homeschool the girls, but one things that trips me up is how to organize the supplies. When we were in the Airstream, I wouldn’t say organization was “easy”. But we were able to use two under bench storage areas. Now, we’re in a small apartment so we still don’t have a ton of room or special homeschool room. We’re, once again, using our kitchen table and the space we have around it to store our supplies.
So if you’re one who is worried about where you’ll put books or supplies, I promise to you, with a little thought, you’ll figure it out too. Here is a little peak at how we organize our homeschool cart & supplies.
Voila!
This is what the homeschool cart looks like when it is organized. It may be a little cart (well, corner) but, man, does this feel like a mansion compared to the Airstream! It’s housed in a corner of our kitchen by the table
So as you can see, only 2 of our 3 kiddos are being homeschooled at this time. On the top shelf I have organized each child’s “area” (it never looks this clean and organized when they put stuff back if that makes you feel better).
How We Organize Our Homeschool Area & Cart
In each child’s area is their appropriately leveled handwriting, language arts, math, a couple reading books that go with their language arts, and their math boxes. There is also a clip on pencil caddy that houses erasers, the ruler, and pencils.
On the middle shelf is our communal shelf. This houses science, history, bible lessons, and a little box that has our “nice” colored pencils, markers, crayons, and then phonics cards. They live here because we’re always exchanging them and this way they get put away in their ziplocks then thrown into a little box instead of getting lost under their other books.
On the last shelf are the things Jo can get into too. Our box of art supplies, drawing paper, construction paper, and other things. Then in our tiny hall closet I have things like tissue paper, popsicle sticks, our microscope, science lessons to swap out, etc.
As you can see, since our homeschool corner is in our kitchen, our kitchen decor includes science vocab words, an ABC printout, and our dry erase board. On our dry erase board I keep up our agenda for each day as an acronym “SMILE” (someone in a homeschool group shared this but used different things for the letters.) The girls enjoy checking them off or putting the letter of their name in each box.
SMILE
- S: Scripture
- M: Math
- I: Independent Reading
- L: Language Arts
- E: “Extras” (history, science, art, PE, etc)
So there you have it! How we have our homeschool supplies organized in such a small space. If we are still using the cart when our third is ready to start school, I would take one of the bottom “miscellaneous” areas and convert it to her little section. Or, who knows, S might be big enough she’ll want her own area by then.
If you homeschool, how do ya’ll organize your homeschool supplies?
I’ll be needing ideas when we move back to the Midwest next year! Feel free to pin this so you have it saved for later. God bless!
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