I’m just starting my homeschool journey with my 6, and 4 year olds. My oldest has been self teaching himself since he was 3. He loves to learn so I don’t feel like I need to push him to learn too much this year. We signed my kids up for math, language arts, art, and physical education. Here’s how I made homeschool binders for my kids!
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My son loves to come up with art projects so I’m not planning on teaching him much in that area. He’s currently learning addition and subtraction for math and we are using content from math you see. He can read fluently, but we want to fill in the gaps for things he may have missed so we are working through the logic of English with both my son and daughter.
My daughter is learning her ABC’s and we plan to use hooked on phonics. She is also using math you see for learning numbers and basic math knowledge.
Since I’m trying to focus on math and Language arts for my kids, that’s all I’ve included in each binder at this time.
My 2 year old wants to do something too so we have a binder for her too, with some worksheets for her to learn too! For her, it’s mostly learning colors, numbers 1-5, her name, and very cutting practice.
I included a pouch for each kid to have materials.
My son’s pouch:
Glue
Scissors
Colored pencils
Crayons
Markers
Pencils
Eraser
My daughters pouch:
Glue
Scissors
Colored pencils
Markers
Crayons
Pencils
Eraser
My 2 year olds pouch:
Crayons
Colored pencils
Pencils
In each binder it’s divided into sections with dividers with folders. The first folder is for papers my kids have started but not finished. The second and third folder is for math and English papers they can do. The fourth and fifth folders are for math and English papers that are finished.
My kids wrote their names on a piece of paper and slipped it in the front of their binder. I slipped an alphabet sheet into the front of my daughter’s binder. I plan to put a multiplication sheet into my son’s binder when he moves on to learning his multiplication tables.
So far, my kids have enjoyed the autonomy of being able to grab a worksheet from their binder. However I have had a bit of a struggle with my kids losing interest when the worksheets are a little more challenging. The easy ones are quickly completed, but the difficult ones stay in the binder until I almost force them to work on it.
