Learn five ways to prep your home for school!
Prep your home for school with these five tips. We start school in just a couple of weeks so I have been focusing on preparing our home for school. Whether homeschooling or sending your kids to school, we all need to prep our homes. These tips will help you get ready for the school year ahead!
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5 Ways to Prep Your Home for School
1) Clothing Organization
Take some time to review your kids’ clothes and sort out what does not fit anymore. Make a list of essentials needed. Depending on your weather, you may need to purchase some fall clothes. Since we live in the south and it does not really get cold until November (maybe) I usually wait for the fall clothes.
Once you have the clothes you need, get the clothes organized! I have used hanging shelves in the boys’ room before and love using little bins to hold clothes as well.
2) Paper Organization
School equals lots of papers so it is helpful to have a system set up to handle the papers. Here are some of our favorite methods:
Set up a Command Center- I have absolutely loved our 1Thrive Command Center. It makes such a difference to have everything in one place. It is so easy to organize and there are tons of options for setups!!
Create School Memories Binders- The kids love having the binders full of memories of items they created. Go ahead and prep your binder so you can easily put items into the binder over the course of the school year.
3) School Supplies Organization + Shopping
Many states have a tax-free weekend that can be helpful for back-to-school shopping. However, start looking now for deals! My kids’ schools posted the school supply lists so I was able to get some of the items now as they were on sale!
Along with getting the school supplies, they need to be organized!
Create a Homework Station- I love Jaclyn’s idea for this!
Make a school space at home- I absolutely love what Sumer did with her space for learning at home!
Use a cart- We loved using our cart for homeschool when we homeschooled.
4) Daily Rhythms
Determine what your daily rhythms will be.
Take time now to figure out what will be essential for you and your kids to do each day before school and then after school.
Check out fun after-school questions!
5) Set a Theme for the Year
For the past couple of years, we have been saying this statement below on our way to school. I will probably continue with that!
What tips would you add?
These five tips will help you get ready for the upcoming school year! Make sure to check out these back-to-school tips!
Continue preparing!
Head over to check out Jaclyn’s tips for setting up a homework station!
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My kids are all starting virtually and we have already discussed that we will need to get out pjs every day! I love those art carts–useful for so many different things.