i am lookig at piles of last yrs stuff - what do you keep?

[Mom to 3+1]

Last yr was our 1st hs - I feel like I kept everything - my kiddos were in 2nd and kinder - what do you keep? papers, workbooks, art projects? I am thinking no workbooks, but then I feel guilty, like someday I might want to reflect back on 2nd grade math or something. thanks for your thoughts. Laura

[Dayle in Guatemala]

I make a 3-ring binder of samples of what they accomplished that year. I put in good copywork samples, pictures of projects they made, tests they may have taken, a copy of the books they read that year, writing samples--sentences, paragraphs, or what ever you have, copies of their grades (if you're required to do that by your state), and a copy of their standardized testing scores. Everything else gets tossed.

[JudoMom]

Last yr was our 1st hs - I feel like I kept everything - my kiddos were in 2nd and kinder - what do you keep? papers, workbooks, art projects? I am thinking no workbooks, but then I feel guilty, like someday I might want to reflect back on 2nd grade math or something. thanks for your thoughts. Laura

 

I keep what will fit in a 1 inch binder. This year it included History color pages and maps, math tests, Latin worksheets and tests, spelling tests, handwriting samples, logic worksheets, and Greek samples. Maybe a few other odds and ends. I'd only keep the best art samples, and if they are too big I'd take a picture and keep that in the notebook.

 

Trust me...I doubt you'll ever want to reflect back on all of 2nd grade math :001_smile:.

[Adrianne]

By PA state law, we have to submit a porfolio every year. So I save things throughout the year and have the kids sort through everything at the end of the school year. I ask them what they want to keep and I save some things I want to keep. We put it all in a 3" 3 ring binder. This is our scrapbook for them for that year. It has become and activity we look forward to and enjoy doing (even though we have to do it)

 

You can be as creative or noncreative (like me) as you like. I do include pictures of activities, projects, samples of writing, copy work, math worksheets etc so we can remember the year.

[Plucky]

I'd keep a couple nice pieces of art and writing. That's it. I chuck the rest at that age.

[Dawn in Ohio]

Like others have said, I would just keep a small sampling of work. We like to make a special cover from card stock and then have our portfolios bound at Kinkos. I have never needed to look back on the kids' work, but they do occasionally like to look back and reminisce.

[Mom to 3+1]

I knew I was being overy centimental:) I will make some piles, purge what I think needs to go and then let the kids help me with the rest! Laura

[SusanG]

We keep artwork the kids want to keep, and we keep any special writing they've done and want to hold onto. The rest goes in the trash. In fact, with daily schoolwork - math, grammar, writing, spelling, etc, the kids have a ritual of throwing their pile of papers away as soon as I've checked them. We don't have any state reporting requirements, so we have no need to hold onto that stuff.

[Laura Corin]

I make up a 100-page clear book for each child. I include a workbook or two, but it's mostly more creative stuff. I also write a report, and put it in the front with any testing results.

 

Laura

[tibbyl]

[What do you keep?]

 

Nothing except whatever compositions are saved on the computer.

 

We record on a transcript classes taken, approximate grade received, and estimated days of attendance.

[Quiver0f10]

I am so bad, I used to keep it ALL. I have rubber made totes in my gararge full of papers. :tongue_smilie: Last year I did through out some workbooks, but pretty much keep all the papers.