What Do You Do With All the Completed Work?

[eight_gregorys]

Okay....I have 6 kiddos and I'm trying to decide what to do with all their work. Do I keep it? Trash it?

 

I need ideas and would love to know what everyone does with completed school work, projects, etc.

 

Blessings,

[Desert Rat]

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[Plucky]

I save good artwork & writing at that age. I don't save a lot of schoolwork until high school when I keep binders of tests, papers, graded work, & grades. I toss most everything else.

Edited July 14, 2009 by True Blue

[cin]

This should go under the confessions thread. I toss most of their work. I keep their math work/notebooks and reading workbooks.

[joannqn]

I save a couple of the best samples in each subject and all of my daughter's stories in a binder along with paper copies of my monthly reviews and annual test results. The rest gets tossed.

[Tap]

k-8-I toss almost everything. I maybe save 1-2 things per year, and get rid of the rest. If anyone wants to see what my kids know, they can test them. We have no regulations in our state for a portfolio, so I don't do one.

 

Ds14 is in high school now so for him I am the extreme opposite. I save almost everything. Just in case anyone questions it.

[Suzanne in ABQ]

If they create a notebook (as for history and language arts), I remove the papers from their 3-ring binders, and put them in a tagboard report cover. I keep their math workbooks in a box in our storage space. I toss everything else.

[mommylawyer]

I keep a small sampling of work - good writing samples, a couple of spelling and math tests, the best artwork, etc. The rest gets tossed, but I go to great pains to make sure my kids don't see that I've thrown away their work.

[littlebug42]

This year, I elected to do a portfolio eval instead of testing for my oldest and I am pleased with the outcome. I now have a 3 ring binder (just a small to medium sized one) with my daughter's first grade work in it, along with a list of books she's read and pictures from field trips etc. I don't know if I'll keep it forever but if I decide to, it is easy to store. I plan to continue this with her and my younger one.

[eight_gregorys]

Thanks for all the replies. I think I just needed permission not to keep EVERYTHING like I tend to do.

[swellmomma]

I keep it for the year to show my portfolio and then I trash it. The kids don't care by that point. I take pictures through out the year of projects, or them working on stuff so we keep those and that is enough to have a memory of it. I have boxes in teh basement I am currently going through that have things I did in school saved. I have not looked at those things in all these years since doing them. I have started tossing everything out because it is just taking up space.

[Gretchen in NJ]

I place all of their competed workbooks and their yearly notebooks in a plastic bin. I also down load a copy of my records that I keep on my computer onto a CD and place it in the bin as well. I only have two children, so we only fill 1 bin a year. This will be our 4th bin.