Making your own Packets / Lifepacs / Paces?

[frugalmamatx]

Anyone? 

 

We're using a very eclectic bunch of materials. DD is finding it hard to keep up with a written schedule, and prefers for me to just hand her a weeks worth of work at a time {she gets overwhelmed looking at the entire textbook}. I'm considering making up packets for each subject for the week or possibly just a weekly packet with everything in it. That'd mean a lot of photo copying though, which makes me iffy. I do have a laser printer so can print anything it's possible to print {and probably cheaper than copying, tbh}.  

 

Anyone done this? Or know of a good workbook creator webpage I could use?

[silver]

I do something similar. We use a bunch of resources where the student book is a pdf printable. So I print out what the kids need each week and bind it using proclick to make smaller sized books. 

 

I know that several years ago, there was a large thread about weekly file folders. It may be worth digging up the old threads and reading through to see if it's what you're looking for.

[prairiewindmomma]

We did the weekly file folder thing for a couple of years. It was during the workbox craze of 2014-2015 (??).  I have too many kids to keep it up, so I switched to a Trofast system from IKEA, and a series of post-its.  Each Trofast bin has whatever is needed that day + a pencil.  So, the math bin typically has a ruler, calculator, manipulatives, etc. (depending on grade level) + text + workbook.

 

For my kid with huge EF issues, he has his CLE workbook with post-it note tabs on the speed drill and problem sets for the day.

[PentecostalMom]

We did the weekly file folder thing for a couple of years. It was during the workbox craze of 2014-2015 (??). I have too many kids to keep it up, so I switched to a Trofast system from IKEA, and a series of post-its. Each Trofast bin has whatever is needed that day + a pencil. So, the math bin typically has a ruler, calculator, manipulatives, etc. (depending on grade level) + text + workbook.

 

For my kid with huge EF issues, he has his CLE workbook with post-it note tabs on the speed drill and problem sets for the day.

I did this also. It worked great for my youngers. I need to do it now! Some of mine are now using a planner. I write the entire week down and they work however they choose. The only daily items are our group activities and Bible.

 

 

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[Lori D.]

Totally an aside:

 

Spunky the Donkey Math

:smilielol5:

 

 

Hands-down (or would that be "hoof down"?!   :laugh:) winner for zaniest program name.

[Lori D.]

Haha! I just looked it up and evidently the actual name is Conventional Arithmetic with Spunky the Donkey 😆😆

 

http://www.rainbowresource.com/prodlist.php?subject=Mathematics/10&category=Conventional+Arithmetic+with+Spunky+the+Donkey+%28Gr.+1-2%29/9824

 

Ain't nuthin' conventional about ole Spunky...   :tongue_smilie:

[SebastianCat]

We did hanging file folders for many years.   What made it work was spending the summers prepping the paperwork, then I used two of the old 4" Sonlight binders with the 36-week tabs to file everything by week.   Then each week on Sunday afternoon, I'd grab that week's worth of papers, write a date on each page, then file in the kids' folders.   It was a great system, but required a lot of prep time over the summers.